PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OLYMPICS” Warner Gland plays Charlie Chan for the thirteenth consecutive time in “Charlie Chan at the Olympics," which is coming to the Plaza Theatre to-day. The philosophical Chinese detective. the screen’s most popular series character, takes the longest odds of his career in solving this puzzle of murder and international spies. With much of its action taking place at the Olympic Games, the film has an unusual background. Some of the shots show races in which J. E. Lovelock, the New Zealand runner, and Jesse Owens, the American, competed. Pitted against the most appalling odds of his career. Charlie sets a new world's record for thrills before a stadium jammed with cheering sport fans. He defies the murderous threats of a death-dealing ring of international spies who strike terror into the Olympic sports arena, and two strike at Chan himself through his "number one" son (Keye Luke) in their bold efforts to seize a secret radiocontrol device from the government. To save his son, Chan follows the fleeing thieves to Europe, overtaking their ship, which is also carrying teams to the Olympic Games, by trans-Atlantic zeppelin. Cleverly substituting a radio direction-indicator for the secret apparatus, Chan plants his bait where the spies will have trouble getting it, and consequently do. Tuning in on the direction-indi-cator, Chan and the police have no difficulty in discovering the hidingplace of the gang, but this, however, turns out to be only the beginning of the excitement, which culminates in the most stirring climax of the thrilling Chan series.