GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 4

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

In "Insult," at the Grand Opera House, Hugh Williams, as Captalu Nadir, presents ah outstanding, picture of a half-caste officer. Tola (Elizabeth Allan) is tho attractive wife of Henri Dubols. a Frenchman engaged ou the civil sldo of tho government of Algiers, while Nadir Is a captain' in tin Foreign Legion. Pola's father-in-law is a peppery major with strong racial prejudices, who can sco little good in halfcastes in general, and none whatever in Nadir, whoso inner knowledge of Arab thought leads him to offer valuable advice in a threatened rising This Is rejected. Nadir's friendship with Pola's liusband is sincere, though ho loves Pola, but the major places tho worst construction on their companionship. For attempting to strike his suporior. Nadir stands condemned to face- tho Urlnß squad. Escaping through tho asslstanco of a friendly sergeant, Nadir later rescues tho husband from tho rebel Arabs, though mortally wounded himself. "Whlto Zombie." "White Zombie,", one of tho eeriest and most fantastic stories aver pictured for thu screen, will have Us premiere at the Grand Opera House uoxt Saturday. It deals with tho occult practices in Haiti in which, by processes of sorcery, dead bodies aro dug from their graves and put-to- work as slaves. T.he story of "White Zombie" is based upon personal observation in Haiti by American writers and research workers, and, fantastic as it sounds. Us entire substanca is said to be based upon fact. The sellings and photography ara described as among the best ever done for tho screen. They Include, for example, a castlo iv the Haitian mountains which is ono of tho largest of its kind in the history of motion pictures. This, with the tropical scenory of Haiti, makes an unusually striking -background for this weird story. The story tells of a young American couple who become entangled with the leader of the Zombies in Haiti, as.the result of which the young brldo is placed under tho influence of a powerful drug which relegates her to tho menial piano of a sleepwalker. She remains in this stato for.several wooks, and it Is only after all but superhuman efforts on the part of her husband and an American missionary that happiness Is wrested .from tragedy.