STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 884, 30 January 1930, Page 17

STRAND

LAST DAYS OF HAROLD LLOYD Harold Lloyd has long been known as the “family comedian” because his humour and situations are so clean that the entire family can understand and laugh at them. His latest picture “Welcome Danger” in which he returns to the screen after an absence of over a year and a-half is no exception. In “Welcome Danger” Harold is a young botanist whose chief aim in life is to perfect a new species of the wild cactus, and he pursues his hopes with a vim. Then presto, fate takes a hand in things and sends him from dead old Boston to San Francisco to clean up a tong war and raid the underground Chinatown. “Welcome Danger” is the feature at the Strand Theatre for only two more days. Claudette Colbert. slender browneyed beauty of stellar fame in a number of Broadway productions, and Walter Huston, one of the outstanding stars of the legitimate stage in the past five years of Broadway theatrical history, are united in leading roles in the Paramount all-talking film success, “The Lady Lies,” which comes to the Strand Theatre on Saturday. In this production, Huston is the handsome widower, and Miss Colbert is the woman unwittingly responsible for his social downfall. Charles Ruggles, famed as one of the leading juvenile and elderly gentlemen comics of “the great white way,” plays the comedy relief role in “The Lady Lies.” He was first seen and heard in talking pictures in “Gentlemen of the Press,” Paramount’s renowned play of newspaper life.. “The Ladj T Lies” was written as a stage play by John Meehan, who served as the director of dialogue in tho all-talking version. He has had years of experience as a stage director, notably with George M. Cohan. The management announces that during the screening of “The Lady Lies,” children under I<3 yeans of age will not: be admitted.