ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2304, 27 February 1930, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

4 ?THE. TRESPASSER." GLORIA-SWANSON'S TRIUMPH.^ Last evening again there was a large attendance at "The Black Watch," as was there on Tuesday evening. People from all ! parts of a large area of the Waikato were represented in the theatre, showing in concrete form what a name the Cambridge "talkies'/ have made. '.. :, . ■ . ,-.'':■ ( r ;<h

For the first time locally Gloria Swanson will break her cinematic'silence and speak for the first time from the screen in "The Trespasser," showing ,to-niglrt. :■- It is anticipated that this film will be exceptionally successful for ample care . has been taken to ensure its suitability for production under the new conditions which- have been imposed by the advent of the sound film. "The Trespasser" is a play of modern life constructed to meet the requirements of the new screen medium, rather than a story designed for the silent screen. " The vocal numbers are expected to be the more highly appreciated, because the theme song really interprets the mood of the story altd sustain its tempo instead of disrupting its trend of thought. The' setting_ _ of the drama is Chicago, its environ-.-, ments the '' smart set." Through 'its - ; . N intimate study of a girl who has become .1 trespasser in this restricted soc-. ial sphere and in, the lives of its peoples, the story devolves into vital affairs of life.

In this story of a mother and her baby deserted by the son of a financier, there is a pretty fair leavening of throat catches and sobs. The boy had married a lawyer's typist, but his father convinced him within a few days of the- elopement that his wealth and social standing would be worth more than the trouble he had stumbled into. "But the girl walked out first, fighting her rich father : in-law then, as she did at ail times, while holding on to the giowing son. She b'ecomes the favourite of lier former employer, supported by him in luxury, and only at the last turning to her relatives' to save lit tie '' curley-head 's" name from the breath of scandal. One of the biggest of. the emotional parts is the second wife the boy married (who became an invalid after a motor accident on her honeymoon) wheeling to the homo of the first wife, seeing the child, and telling her husband she wants a divorce so that the boy and his mother may have the . father back again* The story ends with a note of noss with, the. two lovers united.