STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 996, 12 June 1930, Page 17

STRAND

TWO NEW FILMS TOMORROW The exciting talking picture, "The Night Parade,” starring Hugh Trevor and Aileen Pringle, will, with its accompanying programme, have its final screening at the Strand Theatre today. Clive Brook, recently engaged in film making at Paramount’s Long Island studio, celebrated his return to Hollywood by making one of the biggest pictures of bis moving picture career to date. The new Brook vehicle, in which he is co-starred with Evelyn Brent, is "Slightly Scarlet,” which, will show at the Strand Theatre from tomorrow. • Slightly Scarlet” is Brook’s first West Coast production since he made "Charming Sinners,” with Ruth Chatterton and William Powell. After making the latter picture, he vacationed in Europe, returning to the Long Island studio of Paramount to make “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.” After that he appeared with Ruth Chatterton again in "The Laughing Lady.” "Slight!* Scarlet” is a gripping romantic melodrama, filled with unusual dramatic twists and tense situations, and Brook is at his best as the mysterious Englishman, who captures the heart of a beautiful girl and then, because of his own secret identity, doesn’t know what to do with it. The story is fast-moving and dynamic.

The Princess of Pep is also coming to the Strand tomorrow. Meaning that Alice White, the jazzy First National star, will star in her newest opus of carefree youth, "The Girl from Woolworth’s.” Miss White plays a "ten-cent store” clerk, who finally crashes the gala night clubs as an entertainer. William Beaudine directed, and Charles Delaney plays opposite the star. .Alice White is the youngest star in Hollywood, but her friends are legion and she is becoming more popular with each picture. Her role will be sure to please local theatregoers. Arthur Hammerstein, New York stage impressario, who has joined United Artists, is producing the first original light opera for the screen, tentatively called "Bride 66.” It is said to be on a scale never before attempted. Rudolph Friml composed the original score. He also composed "Rose Marie.”-