AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 1 September 1930, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

REGENT THEATRE. "SARAII AND SON." Miss Ruth Chatterton will make her first appearance in a full-length dramatic ea uro at tho Regent Theatre this week in "Sarah and Son," based on tho Timothy Shea novel. "Sar3h and Son" is remarkable for three thing!., It is the story of Sarah, the opera singer, before it is anybody elses story. Dorothy Arzner, the only woman £ l J ec JL/ £ oet duced the picture, and Zoe Akina, th P and playwright, adapted the novel#r the talking screen. Miss v two women, has succeeded in making a irforc sympathetic, realistic, an<l drama than had ehe been working U direction of a man. "Sarah and Son , otory of a woman's courageous battle 0 atpaost overpowering odds. Her u u t taken from her. Her husband deserts her. tfut she sets a high ideal for herself, and Dy a valiint struggle, finally accomplishes her any bition, and wins romance and reunion Son" Miss Chatterton leaves behind, for a space, her amußing foolenea of lighter pictures, and gets d °wn to genuine drama. The story is purely emotio:nal, but never without its moments of Il£h Vw» tvoe or without its romantic paßEages. llia ct play is undoubtedly Miss Chatterton s forte, and "Sarah and Son" is Vet three which she does particular Justice. lier three leading men. Frederic March, 0 and Fuller'Jfellish, jun., as veil as Philippe do Lacy, as her small, son, are seen in splen did rolos. The star, in her part, of a singer, is heard in some delightful .ballad numbers and tho whole production is / " s . n „ rio - the public in the most finished man " f d sible. As a rocord season is anticipates patrons are advised to reserve seats at i»o Bristol Piano Company.