STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 889, 5 February 1930, Page 14

STRAND

“THE LADY LIES” “The Lady Lies” is the intriguing and unusual title of Paramount’s thoroughly gay and often hilarious alltalking comedy, featuring three noted stars of the legitimate stage, Claudette Colbert, Walter Huston and Charles Ruggles, and now at the Strand Theatre. The story centres about Walter Huston, a widower with two young children, who falls in love with Claudette Colbert, an attractive young girl of uncertain background. That is, her family tree, if any, is undistinguished. For two years they find perfect happiness in their relations with one another until Huston’s children learn about Claudette. And then, being thoroughly modern children, they accept the situation in a matter-of-fact manner, deciding, however, that it cannot go on. In their youthful impetuous fashion they decide to put an end to it all. Their efforts to end it, however, bring complications which nearly wreck the lives of their father and the girl he loves. Produced on the talking screen, “The Lady Lies” is excellent, combining all those elements which make a play sparkling and entertaining. Charles Ruggles is hilarious in a comedy role and Tom Brown and Patricia Deering, as the two young children, also contribute effective performances. Persons under the age of 16 years will not be admitted during presentation of “The Lady Lies,” unless accompanied by parents. . The chief items on the big supporting programme are “The 1812 Overture,” by a symphony orchestra of 75 players, a sound cartoon, a sound gazette and views of the Mangere Airdrome.