LIONEL BARRYMORE HEADS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13313, 21 July 1936, Page 5

LIONEL BARRYMORE HEADS.

CAST OF M.-G -M.’S NEW THRILLER.

Director Tod Browning shocked the screen world with his hair-rais-ing “Draeula” and kept audiences on the edges of their seats with the Lon Chaney thrillers; Guy Endore stunned lovers of shocking mystery with “Werewolf of Paris” and “13aIjcuk;” Bela Lugosi has chilled audiences with many shivery scenes, and Lionel Barrymore has gripped, the imaginations of millions with his amazing characterisations. They ah ceine together in. “Mark of the Vampire,” sensational mystery which each hopes is to “top” anything else in his career. The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture is being screened' to-night at the King’s Theatre. An original story by Guy Endore and Bernard Schubert, the picture tells the tale of a ghastly crime, laid in the midst of a strange campire cult. Strange “undcad” things that roam in the night, a haunted castle that is the centre of the gruesome cult. a. detective who pits his wits against supernatural horrors, figure in the hair-raising story. E. J. Mail nix. its producer, gave every rob* a “name” player, even tin* briefest flash on the screen. Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Jean Hersholt, who .scored in “Men in White;” Lionel Atwill, of “Murders in the Wax Museum” ; Elizabeth Allan, of ‘ David Copperfield,” Jessie Ralph, who played Peggotty in that production ; Henry Stephenson of “The Night is Young,” Leila Bennett, New York stage star; Ivan. Simpson. Donald Meek, Michael Visaroff and many others are among its principals. Opposite Lugosi is -Carol Borland, the long-hunted “Vampire Woman,” found in the person of a dramatic student at the University of California playing her first rote in the picture. The thrills include the mysterious murder blamed on banipires, the appearance of the vampire horde, the reincarnation, of the heroine s father as “un-dead,” the bat that turns into a woman, Lugosi’s weird attacks upon Elizabeth Allan, and the amazing denouement in which the detective in the case brings the weird hidden criminals to the light of day. Replicas of old desei ted cashes, weird churchwards, the den of the “Witch Woman” are among the sinister- settings. Supports include two- Metrotono NewMccls, a Charlie Chase Cornedv. and “The Lost Chick,” a coloured ciii toon.