KING’S THEATRE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 220, 13 April 1933, Page 8

KING’S THEATRE

“RICH AND STRANGE” A stupendous set which typifies the mechanical routine of those who travel from the suburbs to the city and there pore over ledgers until the return journey at night, w r as constructed for the first scenes of “Rich and Strange,” showing at the King’s Theatre to-night. Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the film, portrays on this set the daily grind of a young clerk who will be seen struggling in the masses with his work, for his hat, for shelter in the rain, for a seat In the Tube, for a taste ojE real life. In order to represent tins phase of life a vast set was built in the Studio giving to it an impression of the Business Efficiency Exhibition. The largest studio available at Elstree was’ put at the disposal of “Rich and Strange,” hut, so numerous and detailed were the many sets which had been built for the film that there was scarcely 'room between each for the cameramen arid technicians. In addition to this authentic reproduction of a city office other London location constructed were Victoria Station, an Undeground Railway, and a row of suburban villas.