“Common Clay" at Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6621, 6 August 1931, Page 3

“Common Clay" at Tivoli

Maternal wishes versus inherited talent —and talent won. That's tno mside story” of Constanco Bennett's entrance into the movies. The oldest or Richard Bennett’s three daughters, Constance was supposed to embrace a social career. In Mrs. Bennett's opinion, her husband has acquired all the theatrical honours necessary in tho family and she was much averse to any of the girls becoming actresses. (Shortly after Constance’s debut, however, sho encountered Samuel Goldwyn at .one of the big Equity Balls. Goldwyn, looking for a girl to fill tho “flapper” role in “Cytherca,” which ho was then making, suggested she take a test for tho part. Tho test was highly successful and, despite family objections, Constanco accepted the role, scoring a decided hit. That decided matters. Objections or not, sho was going to bo a film, player; her dramatic inheritance was too strong. In pursuance of this ambition she went to Hollywood where she scored in several productions, including “Tho Goose Hangs High,” “Code of tho West,” “Marriage,” and “The Goose Woman,” until her big success in “Sally, Irene and Mary." After her marriage sho withdrew from the screen for two years, but recently returned to reach new heights in “Son of the Gods,” “This Thing Called Love” and “Three Races East.” Her latest, and in .many respects finest, performance is in the feminine lead of “Common Clay,” Victor Elcming’s sensational screen version of tho Cloves Kinkead Harvard prize stage drama for Box Movietone. Lew Ayres enacts tho masculine role, with Tully Marshall, Beryl Mercer and Matty Kemp in the principal supporting parts. There is a wonderful picture for to-morrow, “Whito Hell of I'itz Palu.” There are thrills as tremendous as the gigantic mountain-forming forces.