King’s Theatre

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 2

King’s Theatre

TWO FEATURES TO-NIGHT “The Invisible Menace” and “The Lady In The Morgue’* will be screened to-night at 7.45 p.m. and Friday at 8 p.m. For a long and profitable period on New York’s Broadway, a mysterydrama called “Without Warning” ran as a stage play. Now it has been made into a picture entitled “The Invisible Menace,” with Boris Karloff as the star. The name Karloff must not conjure up the idea that this is a horror show of the type that Boris so frequently makes. It isn’t. He wears no outlandish make-up, and appears not as a monster of any sort, but as a civil engineer of middle age. The picture is described as far superior to the stage play, successful as the latter was. Besides being a mystery, it is also a comedy, with the humorous and romantic atmosphere carried by Eddie Craven, who plays the same part that he did on Broadway. The story begins on an eastern island used by the army as au ordnance arsenal. An officer has been slain. Several are suspected, including the mild-mannered Karloff. This is because he has had trouble, years previously, in Haiti, with the murdered mnn. Not until the very end of the picture is the real murderer discovered and dealt with in a smashing and surprising climax. “The Lady In The Morgue” is a fast-moving mystery drama featuring Preston Foster, Frank Jenks and Roland Drew.