COMEDY-DRAMA FOR STRAND

Evening Star, Issue 21751, 20 June 1934, Page 11

COMEDY-DRAMA FOR STRAND

LEW AYRES IH ‘ CROSS COUNTRY CRUISE ' ‘ Cross Country Cruise,’ which commences a season at the Strand on Friday, is another of the many transport stories with which the moving pictures have been so busy lately, but instead of a train, a transcontinental motor bus is used this time. It makes an excellent setting for the interplay of the emotions of several prominent characters. The film is billed as a melodrama, but although murder enters prominently into it, there is enough humour to make it easy going. Lew Ayres is excellent, and he is very well supported by June Knight and the attractive Alice White. The plot is not very involved, but keeps up the interest well. The villiau of the piece has got the heroine almost into his clutches and is preparing to elope with her when his wife turns up. On the bus by which they are travelling the hero is a passenger, lured into this mode of travel by a sight of the heroine while on her way to the bus station. He is what is known as a “ wealthy playboy,” and spends his time doing this sort of thing. However, this time it is the fata] dose, and he is able to help the lady to extricate herself from a murder situation brought about by the villain. Alice White is a convincing “ gold-digger.”