STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 885, 31 January 1930, Page 15

STRAND

“THE LADY LIES” Harold Lloyd’s amusing talkie, “Welcome Danger,” will have its final screening at th© Strand Theatre this evening, as will also th© accompanying programme. Claudette Colbert, one of the most beautiful and most famous of Broadway’s leading ladies during the past four or five years, plays the principal feminine part in Paramount’s success, “The Lady Lies,” which comes to the Strand Theatre tomorrow.

Other principals In the production are Walter Huston and Charles Ruggles, who were last seen together in a talking picture in the nowfamous “Gentlemen of the Press.” Both actors have had long and successful careers on Broadway.

“The Lady Lies” is the story of a prominent and successful lawyer who is a widower, and who, to the disappointment of his two young children and his relatives falls in love with a woman who is not, in their opinion, of an equal social standing with him. The family powers of intervention are brought to bear, and the plot deals with the weighing in the balance of a true love affair, and a family’s selfish ambitions. After numerous situations, which are shot through with clever dialogue and tense drama, the romance reaches a logical culmination. Huston and Miss Colbert are ideally fitted for a talking picture of this character. Each is a finished actor, a veteran of the Broadway stage. Ruggles who furnishes the comedy relief, is another stage favourite. The management announces that during the 'screening of “The Lady Lies,” children under 16 years of age will not be admitted.