AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. An unusually logical yet thrilling mystery story is now screening at the Regent entitled “The Secret of the Blue Room.” The plot is intelligently constructed, and events lead to a feasible conclusion which show up the murderer as the least suspected of all the characters. The story opens on a wild and stormy night at an old castle. Gloria Stuart, her father, played by Lionel Atwiil, and her three admirers (played by Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold and Onslow Stevens) are quietly chattiug in the baronial hall, until the young journalist asks the owner to tell the story of the supposedly haunted blue room. It seemed that about 20 years ago a woman was found dead in it, and a detective who had volunteered to st;iy the night there was also found dead in it next morning. Since then the room had been locked. Ouslow Stevens offers to sleep the night in the blue room. Nothing is heard during the night, but in the morning lie has disappeared. The journalist next night decides to get to the bottom of the mystery —but it would spoil the enjoyment of the picture to give any further details of the story, which holds,one's interest from beginning to end. Unexpected answers to questions that occur are found at the end of the very enjoyable and thrilling entertainment. Strong, supporting features go with the main picture, including a good comedy, a cartoon and three newsreels.