MARTOX

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 66, 18 March 1936, Page 3

MARTOX

RANGITIKEI RUGBY SUB-UNION Iho annual general meeting of the Rringitikei Rugby Sub-union will be held in the Marton Jockey Club’s rooms •>n Friday, March 27, at 8 p.m. The business will include roll call, report asd balance-sheet, affiliation of new clubs election of officers and general. THE CIVIC THEATRE ‘'SORRELL AND SON” “Sorrell and Son,” a talkie version of Warwick Deeping’s famous novel, is the main attraction at the Civic theatre this afternoon and evening. British and (Dominions are confident that this picture will be greeted as one of the most moving human dramas ever made. Jack Raymond, in his first “straight” talkie subject (with the exception of “Say it With Music,” which was a novelty picture), has demonstrated that he is second to none in this province and the last reels of the picture. Herbert Wilcox claims, are almost overwhelming in their sustained emotion yet they have been handled wth such restraint by Jack Raymond that they never touch sentimentality. “ t’he faintest over emphasis,” says Mr. Wilcox, “and you would laugh. As it is. you dare not.” The effectiveness nf the picture is borne out by the experience in the studio when the final scenes were being shut. So realistic was H. B. Warner’s performance as the dying Sorrell that it even affected the hard-boiled technical staff and the word went round that it was the most moving piece of acting ever seen during the filming of a B. and D. product ivu.