“WELCOME DANGER” AT GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 16

“WELCOME DANGER” AT GRAND

After an absence of more than 12 month, Harold Lloyd returned to the screen, making the occasion an auspicious one by presenting his first all-talking picture, “Welcome Banger.” This picture is now at the Grand Theatre.

The comedian spent many months mastering the new screen technique, and in “Welcome,, Danger” is said to have developed what will prove the fastest production shown since the advent of the talking pictures. He

has not deviated from the old method of producing his comedies, maintaining all the speed and action of his past successes, but adding sound and dialogue as good measure entertainment. Many of the scenes of “Welcome Danger” are laid in San Francisco’s underground

Chinatown, and combine action, romance and mystery with a whirlwind series of laugh episodes. Lloyd is one of the last of the premiere actors of the silent screen to yield to talking pictures, holding out against the new art until he was thoroughly convinced of his merit. Once convinced, however, he plunged into the work of using it to the fullest; and the result is that “Welcome Danger’' is hailed as one of the greatest triumphs of his long picture career. A new leading lady is presented by Lloyd—Barbara Kent. She has an excellent voice and her performance is said to stamp her for picture progress.