NEW QUALITY THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 14

NEW QUALITY THEATRE.

"Father and Son,": the talking production synchronised Vith a musical'score, will commence, to-night at the New Quality Theatre." 1 Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, ■ Helen Chadwick, Wheeler Oakman, and the .child actor, Micky M'Baln, handle the dramatic situations. in an adroit manner. Tho story is concerned with, a small ■family who live in peace and harmony until a vicious woman, who poses asa woman of refinement, enters their lives. .When Frank Fields, played by Jack Holt, returns .from Europe with a new wife, complications begin to fly thick and fast. Jimmy-Fields, enacted by Micky ar/Bain, refuse's to accept his new mother. His father, realising the .seriousness of the situation, tries to conciliate tlie boy, but fails. The family strife increases in tension. The 'brpaking point is reached with the entrance of Anton Lebau, a former worker In crime with the new Mrs. Fields. From this point the stojy moves quickly with dramatic events piling up until a murder isp committed. The characters interpret their roles.with understanding and ability. The dialogue sequences reveal again that Jack Holt has a screen voice that radiates personality. A beautiful musical score supplies a suitable : bacliground for the dramatic action of the production.