REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 157, 5 July 1934, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

‘ ‘ FROM HEADQUARTERS. ’ ’ Everyone loves a murder mystery, and ‘ ‘From Headquarters,” on the programme which commenced yesterday at the Regent Theatre, is a thrilling and baffling double murder story, with the , ccdourfuLsetting of police headquarters • c-f a metropolitan city, showing officials ; in all their activity in chasing down as- ; sassins. It is a realistic presentation of modern police methods in crime detection, written by two police reporters, Robert N. Lee and Peter Alilne, based on an original story by Lee. Gordon Bates, wealthy Broadway playboy, is found dead in his apartment by his valet, Waters, shot through the eye, an abrasion on the skull and bruises on the I face. A woman’s blood-stained handkerchief, initialled with the letter l “W” is found in the room, and also 1 two photographs, one of Lou Ann Win- I ton, a show girl, Bates’ fiancee, and the other of Dolly White, a drug addict. ! Lieutenant Stevens, who had been Lou Ann’s sweetheart before Bates began I to pay her attention, is assigned to the case, with Sergeant Boggs. While grilling Waters JV, man named Anderzain, who claims to*be a rug-dealer calls at headquarters and asks for some business letters he had written Bates. The police tell him the lock of Bates’ safe is jammed, and ask him to call later. Lou Ann is finally brought in, and later her brother shows up. Winton finally admits that he had gone to the apartment in search of his sister, that he had found her struggling with Bates, and had fought with Bates. The two, 1 however, claim to have left the apartment about 10 o’clock, an hour before the’■murder. The solving of the mystery provides plenty of thrills.