Who Is The Killer? A Question For Fans

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 84, 10 April 1935, Page 5

Who Is The Killer? A Question For Fans

“MENACE” BRINGS SPLENDID MYSTERY TO SILVERSHEET

(Kosy: Screening Saturday.) When “Menace,” the new Paramount murder mystery opens, audiences will have the opportunity to guess the identity of the fiendish murderer who plots a sinister crime. Although he figures prominently in the story’s action, and is often before the camera,' the actual murderer is not unmasked until the picture’s bizarre and startling climax is reached. In all there are seven people, including two women, who may very well bo tho killer. But the plot’s complications are so varied and so cleverly dovetailed that it would take a pretty good amateur detective to unravel the mystery before the end is revealed on the screen. The settings and atmospheric back-

grounds aro well suited to the story, beginning in an African jungle lodge and ending in an isolated house in the mountains of California.

Several prominent players arc importantly cast in "Menace,” which features the two young stars of “The Notorious Sophie Lang.” Gertrude Michael and Paul' Cavanagli. Others seen in tho picturo are John Lodge, Marlene Dietrich’s leading man in “The Scarlet Empress,” Montague Love, Henrietta Crosman, Berton Churchill and Robert Allen. "Menace” was directed by Ralph Murphy. Although she ifads a quiet life, doing things that most young women do, Gertrude Michael has been picked to play in three recent pictures in which life is one thrill after another. In "Murder at the- Vauties” and “Tho Notorious Sophie Lang,” Miss Michael’s screen career was studded with hectic events. And now, in her new Paramount picture she faces new thrilling adventures. For Miss Michael plays the role of a young girl who is threatened with death by a madman, who wrongly believes her responsible for his brother’s untimely death. Ac-

companied by licr fiance, she is tracked down by the avowed killer in her secluded home high on tho Californian Mountains and, with mingled fear and courage, waits for the madman to strike.