Amusements

Northern Advocate, 11 February 1938, Page 2

Amusements

Plaza Theatre

Humour and horror are featured side by side in the current programme at she Plaza. But although there are laughs at every turn in “The Affair of Susan,” there is also drama, portraying a real problem of the modern world—the lonely unloved. The only boy friend Zasu Pitts owns is Jasper, a goldfish, and when he is eaten by a cat she is utterly forsaken. Hugh O'Connell finds himself in very much the same box. How these two work out their destiny among the distractions of Coney Island forms the plot of a very laughable and homely picture.

Again it would be wrong to describe “Dracula’s Daughter” as purely a horror film. The atmosphere of this story of the “undead” is very tense and eerie at times, but is not as morbid as the title might suggest. The story is taken up where “Dracula” ended, with a stake driven through his heart. His daughter, a glamorous woman by night, who disappears into her tomb during the day, carries on his vampirish tricks where he left off. The Baron, who played such a big part in the first film, appears again, as does Otto Kruger, the sub-human butler. Dr. Garth, a likeable psychologist, becomes entoiled with the new menace, who soon has Scotland Yard distracted with a series of unexplicable murders. “Dracula’s Daughter” is equally as powerful as its predecessor, and the climax, staged in a deserted castle in the Transylvanian mountains, is designed to chill and thrill the most sceptical.