COSY THEATRE.

Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1933, Page 2

COSY THEATRE.

“CHANDU” TO-NIGHT. Adapting “Chandu The Magician” to the screen from a popular series of radio broadcasts proved to be a graphic demonstration of the greater descriptive powers of the motion picture camera over the spoken word. Whereas much of the nightly fifteen minutes of the radio time was given over to describing the setting of the mystery drama, the screen version gets this across in one flash of the camera eye, and with far more realism and effectiveness. Thus, in the Fox feature film, coming to the Cosy Theatre tonight, the radio episodes of over a year are presented in tense dramatic form that is said to be thrilling entertainment. “Chandu,” is portrayed by Edmund Lowe, who once before, in “The Spider,” gave a splendid performance as a magician. Princess Nadji, Chandu’s beloved, is played by Irene Ware, New York “Vanities” beauty who makes her screen debut in the picture. Roxor, whose diabolical scheme to destroy the world motivates the plot, is enacted by Bela Lugosi, whose lead in “Dracula” earned him the title of “King of All Screen Monsters. ’ ’