Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928

Four Sons. New York newspapers cluttered their columns last week, puffing up Margaret Mann, white-haired, 60, for years an extra, but now the featured player of Four Sons, the latest candified cinemotherlove. At the expansive opening in the Gaiety Theatre, Morris Gest sniffled.

Four Sons parades the emotions of Bavarian Mother Bernle who sees three sons goose step to war and death. The fourth and youngest had sailed before the War to the U. S., but he too eventually holds a bayonet. Evil appears in the person of a Prussian, monocled and stooped, mannered...

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