A PICTURE OF ACTION
STRAND’S COMING ATTRACTION Romance, comedy, melodrama, and pathos in palatable doses are cleverly stirred together in ‘ Bureau of Missing Persons,’ which will come to the Strand on Friday, to make it one of the most entertaining and fastestmoving pictures shown for some time. With a cast headed by Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, and Pat O’Brien,' the film is sure to please audiences of the novelty of theme and its exciting opportunities for such seasoned creators of character as Lewis Stone, who plays the captain of the bureau ; Pat O’Brien, in the role of the selfsatisfied “ flatfoot ” detective, just transferred from the robbery squad; Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins as “ hard-boiled ” detectives in the bureau. Tho real drama of the picture, however, centres round the mysterious and fascinating figure of Norma Phillipsplayed with feeling and conviction by Bette Davis—and who nearly turns the Missing Persons Bureau upsido down and inside out in her efforts to locate the only man in the world who can clear her of a charge of murder.
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Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 17
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174A PICTURE OF ACTION Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 17
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