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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1007, 25 June 1930, Page 16

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“HER UNBORN CHILD” Thrills are hallmarked all over thr action of “Her Unborn Child,” the s«r. sational stage success which has at last reached the screen as an all-talk-ing production, and is at present ©- view at the National Theatre, wherthe offering is said to be attracts tremendous patronage. With a story based on a topic o? world-wide interest, in unreeling th action the author has not neglected b insert at the most opportune time tt* necessary “punch” to each big situation. thereby lifting the action to a tremendous dramatic climax. As a stage play “Her Unborn Child* scored a terriffic hit. For the past t?: years it has thrilled theatregoers tbt world over. In New York City, tb piece divided a solid year’s engra# ment, between the Eltinge and Forr Eighth Street Theatres. The pungent dialogue, unconvr* tional situations, delightful cornedinterludes and dramatic power whic electrified legitimate theatregoers hr been carefully preserved in the talking picture version, produced by Windsor Pictue Plays, Inc. The touchinglv dramatic story of a boy and i girl in love, forgetting everything el® presents one of the most unusuall teljects yet selected for the talkie sertrThe play was originally written t Howard McKent Barnes, tut the di* logue version for picture audience* b : been prepared by Frederic and Far: Hatton, and directed by Albert Ray. * f sponsible for several successful F: features. A cast of unusual merit t: pears in the attraction at the Nation Theatre, recruited in the main free the ranks of Broadway stars, amor: them being Adele Ronson, Har ine Drake, Paul Clare, Doris Rark/ Davenport, Frances Underwood, Prof the Famous Barrymore Elisha Cook, jun., Elizabeth Wrasr Frances Grant, and others equally» well known. REGENT. EPSOM “The Drake Case” continues to thraudiences at the Regent Theatre, l'r som. The story* is of the detect, and mystery kind and concern* endeavours of interested persons * throw the blame for the murder of M’ Drake on to a servant girl. The cumstantial evidence is overwhelm:* - and the film ends with an unusar. dramatic climax. Good talkie supports will al*° : shown. LECTURE ON GARDEN DESK* Garden designs, a subject which -' terests thousands of Aucklanders, be dealt with in a popular manner - a free public lecture under the of the Auckland branch of the of Horticulture, to be held in the don Memorial Technical ColieS* * June 26 at 7 p.m. W. S. Mason, of Wellington will be the lecturer*