PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 58, 31 May 1927, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“THE POPULAR SIN” Philip Strange says: “It is certainly a big relief to laugh and get paid for it.” Strange’s grins were necessitated by his part in “The Popular Sin,” Malcolmn St. Clair’s Paramount picture, starring Florence Vidor, which is now at the Princess and Tivoli. In Monta Bell’s story, adapted for the screen by Janies Ashmore Creelman, Strange plays his first light comedy role. Strange is the English musical comedy actor “discovered” by Adolphe Menjou while playing together in D. W. Griffith’s “Sorrows of Satan.” Strange's first major part, in Menjou’s “The Ace of Cads,” was a “heavy”—his were the actions of a dastardly villain. Director St. Clair, however, believed he could play comedy parts as well as villainous ones, and cast him that way in Miss Vidor’s current production, much to his delight. “In England.” Strange says. “I played leads, juveniles and comedy characters, but never ‘heavies.’ It was a new experience to be a villain in Mr. Menjou’s picture, but I’ll confess 'that I breathed a sigh of relief.”