REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE.

Featuring Ruth Chattcrton, Lewis Stone, and Raymond Hackett, "Madame X," the allialking screen version of the famous play, will commence its second week's screening at the Regent Theatre to-day. The picture is a vivid drama of a woman of Paris who, through her mistake, is exiled. ]t tells of her tragedy and her wauderings over the face of the earth The great dramatic climax in the courtroom where she finds that the - attorney defending her on a murder charge, is in reality her own son, is a powerful element in the story. Authentic replicas of famous spots in Paris in Shanghai, in. South America, and other parts of the world were reproduced for the swift action of the drama. Miss Chattert'on plays several ages, through Uie use of clever make-up, the pla>" opening rrith her as a young woman and finishing 3 ome twenty, years later. _ The great courtroom scene, an "exact replica of a French trial with court officials, gendarmes, and others all reproduced from actual photos of a real; hearing, the vivid scene in the Tropics, the colourful adventure in China, all give vivid bits of colour and fantasy to the grim drama of mother love that underlies the whole structure. Other wellknown players in the cast are Holmes Herbert, Eugenic Besserer, Mitchell Lewis. Ullric Haupt, Richard Carle, Carroll Kye, and Claud King. A well-varied programme 'of sound supports Is also screened.