The Tivoli Talkies

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 3

The Tivoli Talkies

“SARAH AND SON” “Sarah and Son,” Timothy Shea’s great best-selling novel of mother love, will bo seen in its talking filmised version at the Tivoli theatre. Ruth Chatterton, of ’“Madame X’ and “The Laughing Lady” fame, is starred in the central role of Surah Storm, the impoverished young wil'e-mothcr who, stimulated by a burning ambition and to regain the baby boy who hus been spirited away from her by her worthless husband, finally achieves fame and glory as an operatic star and eventually is re-uniled wilh lier soa. How sho accomplishes the final step of her plan furnishes some of the most tense and exciting scenes the talking screen has yet given us. Frcdric March, the romantie lead of “The Wild Tarty” and of “Tho Marriage Playground,” is hero east as tho lawyer who falls in love with Miss Chattcrtou, and helps her to win both romanco and tho fulfilment of her plan to retrieve her son, The rolo of tho little boy is played by Philippe do Lacy. Tho villainous husband is played by Fuller Hellish, jr. Dorothy Arzner, Paramount’s only woman director, handled tho megaphone. Tho adaptation was written by Zoo Akins, famous woman poet and playwright, tho author of a number of renowned stage successes. A matinee is to bo held to-day at 2.30 p.m.