NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 16

NEW REGENT

“THE STUDIO MURDER MYSTERY” An all-star cast, with every member in it picked for type and suitability to character, acts Paramount's newest all-talking thriller, “The Studio Murder Mystery.” This exciting melodrama, centring around the hunt for a double killer in the absorbing environment of a talking moving picture studio, is one of the most gripping ever to be shown on the screen. The New Regent Theatre will feature this attraction from this evening.

Paramount’s success with the recent S. S. Van Dine story, “The Canary Murder Case.” started studio executives on a search for something even more hair-raising and pleasantly thrilling in the line of detective stories. This hunt culminated in “The Studio Murder Mystery,” which, in dialogue,, action

and interesting detail, really takes its place with the new masterpieces that the talking screen has brought to the motion picture public. Neil Hamilton, Warner Oland, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge and Doris Hill compose the stellar cast. A particularly bright supporting programme of short talkies will also be presented this evening. They will Include a Paramount song and talking novelty, “Now and Then,” by Joseph Santley, a humorous chat on bird life by John Ogden Stuart, a silent comedy entitled “What Women Did to M- n, ’ and finally another of those interesting Pathe Sound News and Audio Review.