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Attractions at Strand Theatre

Attractions at Strand Theatre
Today and Thursday-Feminine
movie fans will thrill this coming
week as they see the singing.
fighting son of the desert sweeping
women off their feet with his ex-
citing love-making as enacted BY
Ramon Novarro in THE Barbar-
ian. They won't be able to help
tit will grip them-and they'll
be swept away by the beauty Of
the desert nights, by the love
songs, by the thrilling conflict of
this handsome Arab af1ame with
love-and the stubborn beauty! AT
a recent preview in Hollywood of
Ramon Novarro in THE Barbar-
ian" with Myrna 10y, onlookers
left feeling that they had seen the
nearest thing in years to that old
Valentino romantic stuff. The men
at the preview grudgingly admit
ted that Ramon, as the Shiek's
son masquerading as an Egyptian
dragoman, did some extraordinar-
lily artistic and effective love-mak-
ing. But the women! They left
the preview room in the same ting
ling state that only the late Rudy
was able to induce before. Myrna
10y and Reginald Denny as the
other chief characters are also
superb in their roles as the stub
born beauty and her finance re-
spectively. The Barbarian" is a
story Of an Arab guide who plays
up to susceptible elderly women
who are starved for romance
and he gives it to them, pocketing
a prettay profit for his pains.
When he falls in love with the al
Turing Miss 10y, he finds himself
running into more difficult prop
osition, and is called upon to use
all his resurces as a rogue and
oriental schemer in order to con
sumate his desires.
Friday and Saturday George
O'Brien demonstrates that a cow
boys life in the modern West can
be thrilling one in Smoke
his new Fox Films
Bristling with gunfights,
a jailbreak, a poker game that
ruins one of the players, grip
ping duel across the car roofs Of
a racing train and some Of the
most brilliant riding ever shown on
the screen. This picture is sched-
uled to display any ideas that the
West of today is tranquil. O'Brien
is supported in this Western ro-
nance by Nell O'Day, Betsy King
Ross, nine-year-old daredevil rider
and Frank Atkinson, humorous
portrayer of cowboy roles.
Monday and Tuesday The
greatly anticipated co-starring We
hicle for Joan Crawford and Gary |
Cooper, To-day We Live" as one
of the major productions to come
from the Metro-Goldwyn-Ma |
studios. Miss Crawford, whose
work in Lefty Lynton" and
Grand Hotel" definitely placed I
her as the outstanding emotional
player on the screen today, ana /
Cooper, who recently contributed /
a memorable performance in "A
Farewell to Arms" have never ap-
peared together on the screen be-
fore. Their first co-starring APP I
pearance is an auspicious event in
cinema history, for it takes place
n a filmization of story by the |
brilliant American writer, William |
In To-day We Live"
Faulkner has written story
about the dramatic experiences of |
an English society girl who offers
her services to England during the
World War in an ambulance unit,
and falls in love with an American
flyer In To-day We Live" Miss
Crawford finds herself the center
Of an emotional conflict between
three men, two of whom lose their
lives in her behalf. The powerful
story shifts from the aristocratlc
country estate of the heroine 70
dynamic episodes in the battle
zones Of the war, with what is said
to be one Of the most terrific eli
makes ever devised for the screen
occurring when one of the stars
lovers gets death order" to blow
up a ship from which there will be
no return.