STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 15

STRAND

“BEHIND THAT CURTAIN” “Behind That Curtain.” Fox production of Earl J )err Biggers’s famous best i seller, is now being shown for its : second big week at the Strand Theatre. U is a Bruce of Scotland Yard story. That thrilling romantic mystery. ; directed by Irving Cummings with . Warner Baxter, Lois Moran and Gilj bert Emery in the leading roles, is ! said to present to sight such strikingly J picturesque backgrounds as London j streets, India’s bazaars and villages, i the sweep of the Persian desert and ; San Francisco’s Chinatown. , Beginning with a mysterious murder jin a London barrister’s office, the J action swings to India, where the tori tured wife of a derelict, whom she j suspects of the crime, flees from him to her first love —and accompanies him on a caravan trip across the desert. • How she escapes, when pursued by ' her husband and a Scotland Yard man in an airplane, hides herself in San Francisco and finally finds happiness after a crashing climax, makes up a picturo of absorbing interest. The fine supporting programme includes a U.F.A. gem, “Napoleon’s Playground,” a Fox Movietone News, i 4 speech by Lloyd George, a Movietone record of the running of the Melbourne Cup, and an hilarious comedy, •The Ladies’ Man,” featuring Chic Sale.