WELL-BALANCED FARE

Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 8

WELL-BALANCED FARE

DRAMA AND COMEDY FOR STRAND The , popular actress, Barbara Stanwyck has a role admirably suited to her great dramatic talents in the gripping film, ‘ The Woman in Red,' which' is the main attraction for the strand on Friday. This film maintains a powerful grip on the audience with its rapid action and numerous moments of tense drama. The past supporting Miss Stanwyck is headed by Gene Raymond and Geneveive Tobin, and their fine performances enable the story to be excellently presented and to run with' smoothness and precision to a wellplanned climax. How the wife of an ardent golfer cures her husband of his favourite recreation is shown in the mirth packed comedy ‘ Leave It to Blanche,’ which will be. the other feature. Henry Kendall, the great screen and stage favourite, appears as the golfer. His wife is induced by a girl friend named Blanche to teach her husband a lesson, and many riotously amusing . situations arise when the scheme lands both into unexpected complications. Kendall stages a “ mock murder ” to get out of his troubles, only to find himself the victim of hia own subtle plottings.