Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30
S'Sarah and Son"
Finely Acted.

SSarah and SON
Finely Acted.
UCARAH AND SON." this weeks
~ Aim attraction at Loew's Pal
ace, should appeal strongly to women
and to those who like mother-love
acting, as done with positive genius
by Ruth Chatterton. Miss Chatter
ton is certainly a highly gifted new
conner to the screen world. She
demonstrated in Madame x" that
her acting powers were considerable.
She revealed another side OF her
talents in 1.-THE Laughing Lady" and
now it seems evident that there Is
practically no field in which she is
not very nearly supreme.
Miss Chatterton's admirers-and
they should be legion-should re-
joice with her in this most recent
Of her films. Sarah and Son" has
q good bit of the sentimental, and
the story very often reveals obvious
bitches, but 1t has depth of SINGER
ity and q genuine reality, which,
coming from this remarkable star,
tends to make it absorbing through
out
At the beginning of the picture
Sarah Is shown just about ready to
marry q worthless vaudeville actor,
who promptly leaves her when he
tires of married life and the unwel-
come child. He disappears, taking
the baby to an orphan asylum. The
mother, quite frantic, loses track Of
him and not until much later does
she diScover-or thinks she does
that her baby has been adopted by
some rich Americans. Through
friendly aid she has q chance to
study for the opera In Berlin, and
when she comes back to be one of
the stars of the Metropolitan she
Is told that through q plot Of the
foster parents the boy she thought
was hers isn't hers after all. Not
until fate intervenes with a coin
cidence does she become reunited
with her own child.
Through all this Miss Chatterton
acts like the near genius that she is.
The very considerable difficulty of
the German accent she handles adj
mirably, losing more and more OF 1t
as the picture progresses. She SO
dominates the picture story that the
other characters seem unimportant,
except Frederick March, as her lover,
and Philippe de Lacey, as the little
boy, both unusually fine.
The stage show, High Speed" Is
novel, to say the least, the Ritz
brothers being practically the whole
thing. But they prove to be Spright-
~ entertainers and are helped by
Olive Fay, Gloria Lee and the usual
group of dancing girls. Other inter-
esting items of entertainment include
1.-THE Golden Pagoda," an illustrated
travel talk about Mandalay, Charlie
Chase comedy, very funny, called
"All Teed Up" and the Hearst Met
rotone newsreel. e. de S. M.
TOWN THE LADIES" Is Very
Amusing.
SGT OWN THE LADIES" this
IL week at R-K-O Keith's is an
amusing screen farce, with Richard
Dix and Lois Wilson in the princi-
pal roles.
The story, an adaptation of the
play, II Love YOU" by William lie
Baron, centers about the bet OF a
young millionaire with one of his
society friends that he can take any
young, fairly attractive man and
girl, aad, placing them in the proper
environment, have them fall in love
with each other. The millionaire,
Jimmy Farnsworth, claims that
love Is only a matter of environ
ment at the propitious moment.
His friend, George Van Horne, &C
cepts the wager and the bet is on.
George selects the two victims, a
young electrician, Peter Darby,
played by Dix, and a society girl
friend, Betty, who Is always bored
and has never been known to be
interested in any man. The EN-
vironment," furnished by Jimmy, is
a house party at his country estate
in Connecticut, to which he invites
several of his friends, including
Joan Bentley Gois WILSON,, to
whom he believes himself engaged.
The complications which arise
through the wrong people falling
in love with each other are truly
humorous and the end of the story,
in which Peter, the electrician,
elopes with Joan, Jimmie's fiancee,
is apparently a satisfactory one to
those in the audience who may be
Economically inclined.
Keiths presents News Events
reel, an amusing talking sketch in
which ventriloquiSt does some
good work with his dummy, Grant
land Rice Sportland reel, In which
the training of circus animals is
shown In an interesting manner, a
funny animated cartoon and an
RCA photophone song sketch,
''Mandalay."
The Grantland Rice Sportland
picture and the animated cartoon
should prove unusually attractive
features for the children. The fea-
ture picture Is one that should
amuse both young and old.
@. S. S.
"SOuth Sea. Rose" Unique, Amusing.
THE Fox Theater this week has
4 unexpected moments Of hilarity
bursting from every corner. The
stage presentation is amusing, and
the hlm South Sea Rose" has
moments when the vast house
fairly rocks with laughter.