STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 869, 13 January 1930, Page 12

STRAND

HAROLD LLOYD ON WEDNESDAY William Powell, who plays the role of Philo Vance in Paramount’s alltalking picturisation of tile gripping mystery story by S. S. Van Dine. "The Greene Murder Case,” w as recently ele. vated to stardom by Paramount. Powell has been seen in a succession ot leading roles during the pasi few months. "The Greene Murder Case”! in which he continues the role he mado famous in "The Canary Murder Case." is now in its last few days at the Strand Theatre, along with its supporting programme. Taking a melodramatic premise and turning it into humour is no newtrick for Harold Lloyd. Vet never before has he done it with the finesse he exhibits in his latest picture "Welcome Danger” at the Strand Theatre next Wednesday, his first picture in a year and a-half. “Welcome Danger” relates a s*orv that with but a few twists, could have been developed into a thriller of the first water. Lloyd retains the thrill elements, the mystery, and the romance of the drama, and adds laugh after laugh to the story by little twists of his own. “Welcome Danger” relates the experiences of a boy' whose avocation is botany, and who suddenly finds himself a detectiv e in underground China, town trying to outwit wily Chinamen who have baffled the police of San Francisco. Lloyd portrays the son of a famous Golden Gate police officer, who passes on. assuming he has left the world a legacy in the form of a great law-enforcing son. Harold prefers toying with flowers to swinging blackjacks and guns, but when his father’s old friends call on him for assistance, he readily assents, with results that are highly humorous for the audience.