DE LUXE THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 50, 22 November 1941, Page 12

DE LUXE THEATRE

Murder on the screen has become far more exciting since the advent of sound. No matter how hard the orchestra worked on Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in the old silent days, the shrieks and moans and pistol shots of the talkie screen have everything their own way in the field of spine-chilling. , , , , The De Luye Theatre has lately made a special feature of this type of entertainment and this week s programme is well up to horror standard. Bela Lugosi is'the star and the picture is "The luvisible Ghost.” It concerns the highlyrespected citizen of a small American town who lives with his daughter. His wife has eloped several years before but I he is still in love with her and each year I on their wedding anniversary he has a ! dinner and acts as though she was there beside him. . i , The townsfolk believe the wile to be dead but actually she is living in a small cottage near her former home, quite illI sane She returns to her home and, gazI ing through the window, is seen by Lu- | „ M i. Next: morning the maid is . found I dead strangled in her room. This sort of thing goes on for some time and the police are beginning to feel inadequate, as ‘all proper screen policemen should. ‘ But as neither the management of the theatre nor picture-goers themselves > would thank the reviewer for. giving the whole story away, it is sufficient to say that, the picture ends on a suitably moral note, with the murderer apprehended. | •■.Moonlight in Hawaii is the second • film—lots of Leon Errol, Ots of Mischu Auer lots of hula-hula girls with lots of naked midriff, lots of music. But the I plot is very slight. ,