AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 35, 16 May 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“MURDER BY AN ARISTOCRAT” A new and baffling mystery melodrama, “Alurder by an Aristocrat,” comes to the De Luxe Theatre on Tuesday with Lyle ’Talbot, Alarguerite Churchill and C'laire Dodd in the leading roles. The plot centres about the-deaths of two members of the proud and aristocrat Thatcher family. Bayard Thatcher, a part played by William Davidson, is the first to meet death. The black sheep of the family, who is attempting to blackmail his relatives. is wounded mysteriously one night by a bullet, and the next day he is found shot through the heart. Five other members of the family are suspected as also are the butler anti two maids, although John Eldridge, portraying the district attorney, a relative, tries to make out a case of robbery, a costly string of emeralds having disappeared. Later Gordon Elliott. in the role of Dave Thatcher, is eliminated as a suspect, he being found dead in the attic of the Thatcher mansion.

Lyle Talbot, as Dr Allen Garrick, is called into the case and brings a nurse to the house, a part played by Miss Churchill. The nurse runs acress so many strange incidents (hiring her night in the home, she- confides to Talbot, (her fiancee, that she believes a murder lias been committed which the family is trying to cover ui). She eventually discovers the missing jewels and uncovers the plot. Claire-Dodd, as the wife of Dave Thatcher, has . another siren role, Joseph Crelian and Florence Fair, are two other-.members of; the family being blackmailed bv Bayard, and A'irginia Brissae plays the part ofrAdda Thatcher, the aged spiiister. head of the family. “THE LAST TRAIN F ROM MADRID” The first picture to come out ol Spain’s framing; revolt, Paramount’s “The Last Train For Madrid.'” opens Tuesday at the Do Luxe Theatre, with due of the ablest casts ever assembled for a motion .picture. Headed by Dorothy Lamour, Lew Avres, Gilbert Boland, Karen MorJev and Lionel Atwill, the cast also includes Fliffen Alack, Robert Cummings, Olyinpe Bradna and (Anthony Qriiiiu. The' story deals with ten persons, -most of them strangers to each other, whose destinies are dramatically brought together in a frenzied effort to obtain passes to board the last train permitted to leave the beleaguered Spanish capital before the commencement of a heavy bombardment.