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...faults are not important. Sarah and Son is a vigorous and moving story, properly told. It covers a long period, and the arrangement of time, perhaps the most difficult problem in building a cinema, is worked out naturally in the physical and mental changes of the central character, Ruth Chatterton. She uses, for instance, a German accent, very marked in the beginning, then less strong, finally no more than the faint shadow of a guttural. Her mood, tuned with her circumstances and what she knows about life, alters from fierce, bewildered anguish, to a cold, shrewd determination to get even...
While she was in Miss Hazen's School at Pelham Manor, N. Y., Ruth Chatterton went to Washington for the Christmas holidays with four other girls and a chaperone. Because she had been talking all term about wanting to be an actress, one of her friends dared her to try to get a job at a theatre near the hotel. She took the dare. A year later, when she was 15, she got out of the musical show and into a small part in a stock company with Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord. Lenore...
...Ruth Chatterton, now appearing in "Sarah and Son" at the Metropolitan Theatre, gives one of her excellent performances that stamp her as one of the talking screen's best actresses. There seems to be no limit to Miss Chatterton's versatility--she has played parts ranging from gay young wives to tragic middle-aged mothers. In "Sarah and Son" she not only acts superbly, but acquires a realistic German accent, and even goes so far as to improve in her knowledge of English as the picture progresses. Miss Chatterton has the role of a young German girl...
...Laughing Lady (Paramount). The late Jeanne Eagels was to have taken the role, now given to Ruth Chatterton, of the lady who laughs at fate. It is a drama about divorce, a little overkeyed as such dramas are apt to be, and a little antiquated in its assumption of society's hostility to divorced people, but still effective enough to deserve smoother direction and a less squeaky recording. A lifeguard is the hinge of the plot. Having pulled Miss Chatterton out of the water, and believing his colleague's assurance that she admires him, he muscles...
MADAME X (Ruth Chatterton)?Old-fashioned but convincing story of fidelities...