STRAND'S ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 13

STRAND'S ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME

POIGNANT DRAMA AND BRIGHT COMEDY As usual, there arc two major attractions on the now programme offered yesterday at the popular Strand Theatre, both providing excellent entertainment . 1 The Voice of Bugle Ann,’ a splendidly produced film, with Lionel Barrymore in the loading role, tolls an unusual and captivating story, based on MacKinUay Kantor’s novel, which in turn was based on an actual court case in Missouri. It narrates the story of a veteran Missouri fox hunter and his favourite dog. To avenge the death of the animal, which had an extraordinary bugle voice, ho kills a man am! goes to prison. The man and dog episode is set in a romance of young love, feuds, and other uncommon angles, and there is an abundance of excitement. Lionel Barrymore gives a finished and artistic performance in his inimical way ; and others in the cast include Maureen O’Sullivan and Eric Linden, who ploy the young lovers of rival families; also Dudley Digges, Spring Bvington, Charley Grapewin, Henry iVadsworth, William Newell. James Macklin, Jonathan Hole, and Frederick Halo. There are some particularly fins settings in this picture, which holds the rapt attention of the onlooker from beginning to end. The other main attraction is ‘ Three Cheers For Love,’ a picture with brisk action, full of music, dancing, romance, and comedy. William Frawley, lloscoo Karns, and John Halliday are the leaders of a strong cast. Skippy _ Dormant, the buoyant, high-spirited daughter of a Hollywood film magnate, a character delightfully portrayed by Eleanorc Whitney, insists upon running around the film plant in slacks ancT sweater, and is packed off by her step-mother to an exclusive school. The school, however, is really closed when the girl arrives, but the head mistress is persuaded by a vaudeville friend to keep ifc open to retain Skippy there. Members of the chorus of the vaudeville show pose as students and the actors as professors. The idea is to got Skippy to take part in a school entertainment, invito her father, and persuade him to buy the production for the pictures. The fun is fast and furious, and Dormant is induced, in the course of a cleverly constructed scheme, to purchase the show. Incidentally, there is a charming romance. The picture throughout is a bright one, with tuneful melodies and clever dancing running through it.