‘STUDIO MURDER MYSTERY'

Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 7

‘STUDIO MURDER MYSTERY'

EXCITING TALKIE FOR OCTAGON An all-star cast, with every member in it picked for typo and suitability to character, acts Paramount’s newest alltalking thriller, ‘ The Studio Murder Mystery.’ This exciting melodrama, centring around the hunt for a double killer in the absorbing environment of a talking moving picture studio, is ono of the most gripping ever shown on the screen. Tlie Octagon Theatre with its latest installation of talking apparatus will feature this attraction from tomorrow evening. Most of the , action of the drama takes place within the studio itself, and the highly interesting processes that, go into tlie making of talking moving pictures are revealed in,detail to the public. This informative angle is cleverly worked into the, plot of the picture. It is merely an incident, but an enlightening one. The new technique of talking pictures is new even to Hollywood, and in ‘The Studio Murder Mystery ’ the whole method is revealed to moving picture audiences. Then there pro two murders. The story deals with the search for a bold killer who covers up his tracks so cleverly that six persons are suspected and accused and one is convicted of the crime ho committed. , Suddenly the guilty man is unmasked in a most surprising and unexpected manner through tho efforts of a hanger-on of the studio. The mystery is. sustained to the end. and it is, indeed.,a mystery. The fad that Prank Tuttle, who made that grip pine, melodrama, ‘ Something Alway: Happens.’ directed ‘The Studio MurdeMystery.’ ensures the most startliiv surprises.