CRYSTAL PALACE.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19389, 15 August 1928, Page 5

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Written by Gastop Leroux (the author (fi "The ?h*«?tem of '#* 6?M%"j» " Th « shewing at Crystal Palace this"' wee]?, '" introduced a young newa.r paper reporter who is assigned to solve a toystery ttiat is baffling the fegff brains of Amprica. He is told that unless, he can dp thfl task' satisfactorily qome one else will he. gl^en'his position. ', According to $* ."' reporter* get'their information, in ijhe gt.ates. in very different manner frcjra. their brother reporters in' New Zealand,' for t,h,a, young maq who is' the. harp, o{ the story 'goes, to" the. headquarters o{ 'the, Bgl' 9W? an officer into being handcuffed, and himself take's,"a/ telephone "message' meant'"for thas officer * whjcp' givgi him 'a, valuable, cliu. The ' public is shocked, one morn: jijj ' to" learn' that a' man who ha,d participated "\h the' 'trial of \ murderer. hs[d been found dona to death in a particu: larly brutal manner" A little" later the |»wj yer'who.'had'prosepntad'du Vail i,s. warned; that'fee' ysHI be the" njjxt tq""d.ie, ana the manner of his death is' baffling, for on« mpraent he is,' sitting among'Bi's friends m celebration of a young la'djr-a birthday, and the next ha.s "disappeared, his, friends faring horror-stricken at his recently occupied chair, Eddie Lowe, aa, ijhe reporter who finally solves the mystery, acts a difficult role with distinction, others who, pnppori him be 1 0? Guatan van Seyfertits and Norman Trevor. The second picture the Best Policy,*-' qnij shqwij Johnnie Walker in one of hi? best roles." ■