REGENT THEATRE
"DRAGON MURDER CASE." “The Dragon Murder Case,” the latest of the murder mystery dramas from the pen of the peerless author, S. Van Dine, to be dramatised for the screen, opens at the Regent Theatre to-day. The picture is said to be the most bizarre as well as the most baffling of all the novels of the famous author, involving as it does a series of mysterious crimes apparently commit ted by some prehistoric monster. It is not until Philo Vance, in the person of Warren William, comes to the scene that the strange murders are finally solved, and the slayer brought to justice. William is a new Philo Vance, though the parts of Sergt. Heath ami District Attorney Markham are again carried by Eugene Palletto and Robert Me Wade, respectively. Etienne Girardot also will be seen again in the person of the quaint and querulous Dr. Doremus. Margaret Lindsay has the leading feminine role, the fiancee of the first man murdered, and suspected of the crime because she is in love with another of her guests, a part played by Lyle Talbot, who also comes under the scrutiny of the police. Six other persons are also suspected, including Robert Barrat, owner of the estate, his mother, who advances the dragon theory, a part played by Helen Lowell; Dorothy Tree, George E. Stone, William Davidson, guests, and Arthur i Ay les worth, who plays the role of the I butler. Others in the case include George Meeker, the first to fall a victim of murder, and Robert Warwick as the family physician.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 9
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264REGENT THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 9
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