STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 891, 7 February 1930, Page 14

STRAND

“THE LADY LIES”

Claudette Colbert, slender browneyed beauty of stellar fame in a number of Broadwajr productions, and Walter Huston, one of the outstanding stars of the legitimate stage, are reunited in leading roles in the Paramount all-talking success, “The LadyLies,” now at the Strand Theatre. In “The Lady Lies,” Miss Colbert is a gorgeous woman of great intellect, and Huston, a polished and successful lawyer, who falls in love with her. They first appeared in leading roles together in the popular New York stage play, “The Barker,” which had a long season on Broadwav. Huston played the part of Nifty Miller, the carnival ballyhoo man, and Miss Colbert played Lou, the equally hardboiled sideshow performer. Charles Ruggles, famed as one of the leading gentlemen comics of “the great white way,” plays the comedy role in “The Lady Lies.” He was first seen and heard in talking pictures in “Gentlemen of the Press.” as the inebriated reporter who never seemed to know which paper he was working for. Huston also made possible his debut in talking pictures in the same picture as Wick Snell, the inveterate inhabitant of city rooms. 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.