STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 16

STRAND

TWO BIG PICTURES At the Strand to-morrow commences an attractive programme which no one should miss. The chief features are the two big pictures, “Footloose Widows” and “California,” the latter specially written for the screen by Peter B. Kyne. Foi»the first time since she played the title role in •‘Grounds for Div-

orce,” Louise r azenda is seen as her beautiful radiant self in Warner Bros.’ production of “Footloose Widows.” In more than a dozen roles in the last year she has appeared in everything from her favourite part of Swedish maid to a rampant chorus girl. In her own words, she had been in aprons for the last six months.

In “Footloose Widows” she first appears as a smartly dressed New York shop girl who later develops into a mysterious beauty, blooming exotically but with the subtle spirit of her usual excellent humour, against the background of an exclusive Florida winter resort.

Amid lovely luxury she appears in a dozen fluffy and elaborate creations bearing the latest Parisian stamp, a swan hardly recognisable as the luaidrous ugly duckling who enlivened so many riotous comedies, but a greater comedienne than ever.

Peter B. Kyne, author of many Western fiction stories for book, magazine and screen, wrote the story on which “California,” Tim McCoy’s latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer historical Western film drama was based. The story is a particularly colourful one and is the most typical tale of early California since “The Girl of the Golden West.” It is the story of the love of an American marine officer for the daughter of a wealthy Spanish family at the time of the American occupation of the territory during the Mexican War. Dorothy Sebastian has the role of the beautiful senorita.

Included in the supporting programme is a Strand Magazine of the latest topical budgets and world news, and an Aesop Fable, entitled “Happy Go Luckies.” The Strand Symphony Orchestra under Eve Bentley, will render a bright musical programme.