MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 19

MAJESTIC

“SARAH AND SON” Ruth Chatterton’s splendid picture, “Sarah and Son,” is continuing its successful season at the Majestic Theatre. There was it time when Sarah was a nobody. Just a young broken mortal. A pitiful little mother deserted by her husband—forsaken almost by Life itself. Poor and unknown. Lid she allow the cruelty of Pate to whip her down? She did not! Rather she shaped her destiny for one purpose—the reunion of herself and her boy. After a time she becomes a successful opera singer. With the means to support herself in luxury she finds herself confronted with the intrigue of a married couple who have adopted the boy after the death of her errant husband. In her battle to. retrieve the child she is aided by a young lawyer, who soon becomes her lover. It is their final heroic effort to gain custody of the child which forms the exciting and engrossing climax for this powerful film. As the central starring figure, Sarah, Miss Chatterton performs with the same brilliant artistry that has distinguished all her,work before the camera and microphone. Fredric March is her leading man in this picture. He played the part of “Gregory Pyne” in “Footlights and Fools'* and opposite Clara Bow in “The Wild Party.’’ Pliillipe De La.cy, little French war orphan, plays the part of her son. A particularly fine programme of supporting talkies is also being presented, headed by a comedy entitled “Hot Logs'.”