MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“SARAH AND SON” “Sarah and Son,” Timothy Shea’s great best-selling novel of mother-love, is being seen in its talking iilmised version at the Majestic Theatre. Ruth Chatterton, of “Madame X” and “The Laughing Lady” fame, is starred in the central role of Sarah Storm, the impoverished young wifemother, who, stimulated by a burning ambition to raise herself from obscurity and to regain the baby boy who had been spirited away from her by her worthless husband, finally achieves fame and glory as an operatic star and eventually is reunited with her son. How she accomplishes the final step of her plan furnished some of the most tense and exciting scenes the talking screen has yet given us. Frodric March, the romantic lead of “The Wild Party” and of “The Marriage Playground,” is here cast as the lawyer who falls in love with Miss Chatterton, and helps her to win both romance and the fulfilment of her plan to retrieve her son. The role of the little boy is played by Philippe de Lacy. The villainous husband is played by Fuller Mellisli, jun. Dorothy Arzner, Paramount's only woman director, handled the megaphone. The adaptation was written by Zoe Atkins, famous woman poet and playwright, the author of a number of renowned stage successes. The same programme at the Majestic includes several bright talking and singing featurettes.