FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 68, 22 February 1939, Page 3

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

DOUBLE BILL. Pity the poor criminal who runs up against Moto-Chan Incorporated! That’s exactly what happened in “Mr Moto’s Gamble,” showing at the Regent on Friday and Saturday. Mr Moto, ably personified by Peter Lorre, is aided in his solution of a weird crime by none other than Keye Luke, who already has gained a host of admirers for his role as Number One Son of Charlie Chan. It is a story situation that certainly never occurred to the creators of . Mr Moto or Mr Chan. It was John . Kendrick Bangs, famous humorous writer, who seized upon the idea of having' Sherlock Holmes’ son marry Raffles’ daughter. Their child. Raffles Holmes, was a strange re-verter-to-type who got himself terribly mixed up in crimes and then was engaged to solve the mysteries. When Mr Moto goes into action with Lee Chan, however, both have a common purpose in running down a phantom murderer who uses a gun without bullets', lIoW they work out their case is a mystery-thriller treat. The smashing of the billion dollar alien smuggling racket, said to be responsible for the illegal entry into the United States of 120,u00 aliens yearly, provides the background for “Daughter of Shanghai,” the Paramount picture starring Anna May I Wong. Miss Wong plays the role of a wealthy Chineßa girl who under-

takes to smash the racket after hei father is murdered for refusing tc work with it. The east also includes Philip Aim. Charles Bickford, Barn Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, J. Cairo Nash and many others.