“MADAME X.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 12

“MADAME X.”

"Madame X,” a famous stage play, the vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt, for Pauliue Frederick, for Dorothy Donnelly and many other famous, actresses, comes to the Kegent Theatre on Friday. With Ruth Chatterton in the title role, and directed by Lionel Barrymore, the play, while it tells the same graphic story as the older stage version, is produced on very modern lines, with rapid action and dialogue. The new picture is said to be gorgeously staged, scenes all over the world being shown in its swift action. Lewis Stone plays the husband, and Raymond Hackett, of “ The Trial of Mary Dugan" fame, the son and attorney for the defence. Richard Carle, an old-time Broadway star and now a screen player. Mitchell Lewis, Eugenie Besserer,' Holmes Herbert, Ullric Haupt, Sydney Toler, and many others are in the cast. The play opens in Paris, and then follows the tragic "Madame X”,in her dramatic wanderings to China, the Islands, and South America. It is Barrymore’s first directorial effort with a feature length drama, and follows his recent success, " Confession.” Carroll Nyc, who played in the former picture, incidentally, plays in "Madame X,” and Hackett, who plays the youthful attorney, once supported Barrymore on the stage in “ The Copperhead.”