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Attractions at Strand Theatre
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stellar roles, is one of the most
hauntingly romantic pictures ever
made It has a story that fairly
breathes happiness in every one of
its details. It's music has all the
qualities Of refreshing accompani-
ment, with songs that are destined
for tenancy on the lips of millions
In its selection of stars and cast.
Fox has shown wise insight into
the tastes of the public. Janet
Gaynor has found the perfect com
plement for her unique abilities
in Henry Carat. the European
player who makes his American
picture debut in Adorable" To
gether, as they unfold step after
step of the story, they form what
i is by far the most attractive, most
whimsical, most romantic pair Of
4 players seen in many moon 1.
+ is rare motion picture occasion
when story and stars fit SO beau
tifully together Miss Gaynor
# again reveals her manifold talents
i for the screen in its three principal
departments acting, singing and
dancing Carat must certainly
look to a brilliant career on the
American screen. He has all the
makings. Miss Gaynor plays the
role of a lovely girl who does the
wooing and the winning Of a hand
some soldier Of the guard. Garat's
role is said to give him a splendid
+ occasion for his American motion
picture debut. The supporting cast
is notable aggregation Of char
acter performers.
Friday and Saturday Lee Tracy
who has played reporters, column
lists, fast-talking and other fasci-
mating characters, comes now TO
the screen as an ambulance-chas-
ing shyster lawyer and makes
laughs, thrills and romance out of
an amazing legal racket. Tracy's
newest appearance is The Nuis-
ance'. The fast-talking, whimsi-
cal hero of quick moving drama
exposes the inside of the damage
racket in the new picture. There
are hilarious sequences in a great
skating rink, thrilling street car
and auto accidents and dramatic
courtroom episodes. Tracy, as the
shyster, outwits a traction com
pany, ties up city's traffic and
engages in other sanguinary ad-
ventures, and even marries the
feminine private detective sent out
to deliver him into the tolls of the
bar association. One of the major
thrills in the picture is the amaz-
ing frame-up of the street car
company president, staged by
Tracy to get his sweetheart out of
Jail. A screamingly funny sequence
is provided in the medical exami-
nation of Herman Ring, and the
halting of the bus service because
the bus drivers weren't vaccinated.
Monday and Tuesday-That sad
ly gay. gaily sad, romance of old
Vienna that gained the plaudits of
Broadway theatre-goers a season
or so ago, comes beautifully to the
screen in Reunion in Vienna. now
handsomely mounted, well-played. +
capably directed, in fact a gorge
ously retinted replica of the anus
ing original. So again we have the
gay philanderer, Archduke Ru-
dolph, scion of the Hapsburgs, who
by his own boast, is full of honor
and epilepsy. And the fair Elena,
a laughing love in happier days,
now married to a prosaic psy-
chiatrist-and romantic memories.
And the Herr Professor Doctor,
too, who is her husband. About
these three the plot revolves. 1t is
the hundredth anniversary of the
Old Emperor's birth, and from
lowly exile the courtiers and ladies
of the old regime return to faded
glories in pathetic reunion. And
among them is the Archduke,
come by devious ways and despite
the diligence of Republican police,
to see once more the sweetheart of
other days. Fearfully, yet ting
ling in anticipation, Elena joins the
party. She meets her prince and
sees him for the vainglorious
moron he is-''a taxi driver dress
ed up" in obsolete medals and
shabby uniform. Her husband tri-
umphs, and she returns home just
at the moment when the Arch
dukes suit seems most favored
But the struggle doesn't end there,
for the charming renegade follows.
and when the battle for her love is
abandoned, he energies victor by
iint of the pure pathos, hopeless
ness, helplessness of his misfor-
tune. Reunion in Vienna" is
packed with smiles, tears and ro-
mantle thrills and all are offered
oy a cost of expert players John
in a uniform is irresis-
-ibie and more fascinating than
ever. Diana Wynyard is superb in
very look and gesture Eranly Nor