HAROLD LLOYD’S TALKIE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 14

HAROLD LLOYD’S TALKIE

AT STRAND ON WEDNESDAY There is always a thought at the back of each Harold Lloyd picture and his first all-talking attraction, “Welcome Danger,” coming to the Strand Theatre on Wednesday, is no exception to the rule. . A few years ago, Lloyd, while visiting New York, was shown the inner workings of Police Headquarters. His primary interest centred in the Bertillon room, and in the finger printing of criminals. The comedian saw picture possibilities in the real life drama staged before him that day, but waited years before he got an opportunity to make use of it himself. . In “Welcome Danger,’ finger printing plays an important part in the unraveiling of the story, and while the scene is shifted from New York to San Francisco, there is still a thread of the scenes the comedian witnessed during his visit to Gotham’s police centre. Then again, the fact that Lloyd is introduced as a botanist brings to light the fact that the bespectacled comedian has been quite a student ot flowers for the past few years, or since he started landscaping his new home in Beverly Hills. . “Welcome Danger” is something new in talking pictures. It is first a motion picture, and tben it is an all-talking offering. Its story could be related through its pictorial record, but dialogue and sound are so cleverly introduced that the screen gives something no talking picture to date has yet offered. It is a perfect blending of the old fast moving picture with the modern snappy talking production. Barbara Kent is seen as Lloyd s leading lady for the first time in “Welcome Danger" and followers of the comedian are certain to demand her appearance in the next.