NOTABLE FILM GOING TO THE REGENT

Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 2

NOTABLE FILM GOING TO THE REGENT

ORIENTAL NATURE OF * SON-DAUGHTER *• i The brilliant screen version of David } Belasco’s. stage .success,:;b‘ The SouDaughter, 1 will open to-morrow at the Regent Theatre, with Helen Hayes essaying the role'of v the Chinese heroine!, and Ramon Novarro playing the Chinese prince whose affiliation with the revolution has its aftermath in aperies of political intrigues and tong wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The Oriental roles in ‘ The SonDaughter ’ present a high-water mark in character delineation for both the picture’s stars—Miss Hayes’s part. of the Chinese girl being a far cry from her, notable portrayal of * The Sin of Madeloa Claudet,’ for which she won the recent Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awardand Novarro a role, likewise presenting a forcible contrast from that of his work- in ‘ Mata Hari.’, The story of ‘ The Son-Daughter is fraught with melodramatic incidents, its plot centring about the_ attempts of revolutionary Chinese factions to outwit the Royalist group. Miss Hayes, as the daughter of a Royalist sympathiser, is ■ caught in the whirlpool of intrigue and plotting which surrounds her father's activities, ahd ultimately / is forced to make a choice between mar- ! riage to the man she loves and devotion to her native land. j Clarence Brown, who has won an I outstanding place in the list of screen 1 directors for his work on most of Greta ! Garbo’s pictures, directed * Th° SonDaughter.’ As has come to be expected of Brown’s cinema offerings, the preI sent picture is said to boast a number of brilliantly picturesque settings. ! In the supporting cast are H. B. Warner, Lewis Stone, Warner Oland, i and Louise Closser Hale. ■