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Attractions at Strand Theatre

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To-day and Tnursday-Cl Claudette
Colbert and Frederic March are CO.
starred in Tonight Is Ours, screen
adaptation of the romantic play by
Noel Coward. 1t marks the first
appearance of March on the screen
since he won the award of the Mo
ton Picture Academy of Arts and
Sciences for the best performance
of 1882. The witty but romantic
flavor of Private Lives" a sensa-
tional movie success, best known of
Coward's plays, characterizes TO
night Is Ours" 1t too is a story of
clever, amusing people, outwardly
giddy but actually devoted and
tender toward each other. Miss
Colbert is cast as girl who has
thrown aside the responsibilities of
a kingdor1 for fling at Paris, and
March as young, wealthy Paris
ian who insists on taking the fling
with her. Together they race gay
ly through the French capital,
fully enjoying the pleasures of the
town, but more fully enjoying each
other. Their moments alone are
moments of tender, deep-fowing
passion. A strange trick Of the
fates almost upsets their lives, but
a surprising, dramatic climax sets
everything to rights. Alison Skip
worth, veteran stage actress who
has scored brilliant success in char
acter roles, in 'If Had a Million"
Might After Night" and Madame
Racketeer," heads the supporting
| cast.
Friday and Saturday-A lively
comedy-drama that exposes the
ballyhoo racket and which is alive
with personality, The Half Naked
Truth" parallels some Of the real
life exploits of the late Harry
Reichenbach, generally conceded to
have been the most spectacular
press agent Broadway ever knew
Lee Tracy plays the role of the
press agent. Lupe Velez plays op-
posite him as the girl who became
famous through high pressure pub
licity. It was Reichenbach who
conceived the idea of having a lion
brought in a truck to a hotel room
occupied by Mr.. T. r. Zann. At
+ ter this story broke" it was re-
vealed that ''T. r. Zann" was none
other than Tarzan, which at that
time was the tale of a silent mo-
tion picture about to open on
Broadway. He also had tanbark
placed on the streets outside the
house being occupied by Mrs. Pat
Campbell, noted actress.
Monday and Tuesday Mae West,
popular Broadway favorite, will
make her first featured screen ap-
pearance in Paramount's"S She Done
Him Wrong" Miss West wrote
both the story and the dialogue.
And her torrid rendition of your
favorite old rag-time ballad,
frankie and Johnny" is some
thing to get up and cheer about.
Quite as effective as the brilliant
portrayal of Miss West is the plot
which twists and turns in any num-
Der of surprising ways. Miss West,
as Lady Lou, entertainer in a sin
lister cabaret, is the love-interest of
every man who visits the cabaret.
Her passion is diamonds and her
current provider, as the film opens,
is Noah Beery, proprietor of the
cabaret and leader of a ring of
counterfeiters. However, he has
plenty of competition from David
Landau, political boss and Gilbert
Roland, Russion counterfeiter. But
Lou has eyes only for Cary Grant,
crusading mission worker. A
series of climaxes begins when the
cabaret is raided by the Hawk, an
unknown detective who single
handed smashes the counterfeit
ring. The film reaches its dram
attic ending as the identity of the
Hawk is revealed as he rushes into
LOUIS room in a desperate endeav-
or to save her.