"COMMON CLAY” IS AN OUTSTANDING PICTURE.
A film setting new standards In dramatic heights for the audible screen Is “Common Clay,” an unusually long film, which Is the attraction, at Crystal Palace this wfeek. It is no ordinary Talkie. It is a startling commentary on the more undesirable phases of nigh society life in New York. The story Is woven around the familiar theme of the woman wronged. In this case she is a particularly attractive young woman who profits by the lesson of a police raid and its consequences, gives up her life of hostess in a “speak-easy, and enters domestic sfervice in the household of u respected family. The son of this household falls in love with her, and in her dark hour, under his ambitious lather’s influence, spurns her love. Lawyers take a hand, and a powerful denouement is reached when the antecedents of the unfortunate girl are revealed. There is a good holiday programme of short supporting pictures with a humorous emphasis.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 15
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