CLEVER STUNTS
"HALF NAKED TRUTH" AN ENTERTAINING STORY. A lively comedy-drama of publicity men and their clever stunts and which is alive with personality, "The HalNaked Truth," which opens on Thursday at the Grand Theatre, parallels some of the real-life exploits of the late Harry Reichenbach, generally conceded to have been the most spectacular p>ress agent. Lupe Velez plays opposite him as the girl who J became famous through high pressure publicity. It was Reichenbach who conceived the idea of h'aving a lion brought in a trunk. to a hotel room occupied by a Mr. T. R. Zan. After this story was printed it was revealed that "T. R. Zan" was none other than Tarzan, which at that time was the title of a silent motion picture about to open on Broadway. He also had tanbark placed on the streets outside the house being occupied by Mrs. Pat Campbell, noted actress. There was a great hullabaloo about that. The excuse was that Mrs. Campbell's. sensitive ears could not standl the' noise of the rumbling traffic. The publicity which resulted from that stunt was measured by yards. Supporting Tracy and Miss Velez in "The- Half-Naked Truth" are Eu-
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 2
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