STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 875, 20 January 1930, Page 15

STRAND

“WELCOME DANGER” Gales of laughter swept the Strand Theatre again on Saturday, when Harold Lloyd’s latest feature comedy was shown. It is the same Harold Lloyd of “Safety Last,” “Grandma's Boy,” “Speedy,” and others, but with a completely amazing new array of thrillmaterial and laugh-provoking gags. This picture is one of the greatest examples of why Harold Lloyd is the most popular active comedian in the world today. It clearly evidences a genius for bringing plot, action, dialogue, comedy, and romance to the screen in such a manner as to tickle the fancy and ease the hearts of the millions of men, women, and children all over the globe. It is a picture universal in its scope. Complex, yet comprehensibe; fast, but not racy: humorous, yet not ridiculous; lovable, yet not mawkish. The theme, of course, is an entirely new one, as has been the case with all Lloyd plots. "We discover Harold as a seriousminded young Boston botanist immersed in his books on floriculture. But fate has ruled that he must be plunged into swifter, more exciting currents of activity. Friends of his deceased father, one-time captain of the San Francisco police force, decide to invite Harold to take over the job of cleaning up gangsters and tong men in the city’s underground Chinatow’n. They presume that Harold will display the same courageous and iron-fisted power in office that his father had shown. The innocent Harold goes to Frisco. By a lucky break he scores a victory over a group of underwold denizens the first day he is in the city. He applies botanical methods to the art of finger-printing, and gets a clue to the ringleader of the lawless element. A special programme of talkie supporting items is being shown,