STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1061, 27 August 1930, Page 15

STRAND

DETECTIVE sromas i “At the Villa Rose," the’ talking screen version of the A. E. \V. Mason story, has been brought to the screen by British Dominions Films, producers of “Rookery Nook" and “Splinters.” As a. novel, “At the Villa Rose" enjoyed widespread popularity and the film at the Strand Theatre, has also been most popular. Good talkie shorts complete the programme. l William. Powell as Philo Vance. i amateur detective will be the attraction ' at the» Strand Theatre. i It the two previous S. S. Van Dine? ;stories filmed, "The Canary Murderl image” and “The Greene Murder Case." the- story tension was kept at a highl rpoint and the mystery was sustained. ; “The Benson Murder Case" is even} more mystifying than the other two“ ihowever, the guilty party belngi Ithoroughiy unsuspected until the very Send, in spite of. the fact that very de‘finite clues point tO‘lliS guilt. “The . Benson Murder Case,” as a. Paramount 'picture, will Show at the Strand on Friday. - ‘ GREY LYNN CINEMA ! “Embarrassing Moments.” the talkie Comedy at the Grey Lynn Cinema. is one of the most uproarious pictures by Reginald Denny. The story deals in a. most humorous lnanner with comDanionato marriage. a state into which Denny is supposed to drift. unbeknown to himself. A second talkie-comedy is being Shown in “Beware of Bachelors." star—ring: Andrey Ferris and ”\Villiam Collyer. .“The Better VVife,” the next all—talking dramatic play in which Ruth Chatterton and Clive_Brook will co—star, has gone into production at the Holly—wood studios. _.