MYSTERY AND THRILLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 5

MYSTERY AND THRILLS

I "GAMBLING SHIP" AT REGENT, j "MR. WONG, DETECTIVE," ON SATURDAY. A timely, action-filled drama in j. which a special investigator uses motion pictures to trap a gambling ring, Universal’s "Gambling g Ship,” opens on Saturday at the Regent Theatre in conjunction , with "Mr. Wong, Detective.” 1 1 Robert Wilcox, who plays an undercover man posing as a gangster, ? Helen Mack, as a beautiful young j gambling ship owner; Ed Brophy, as a ' comedy thug; Joseph Sawyer, as an s ex-prizefighter and local bodyguard, o and Irving Pichel, as a scholarly gang leader, having leading roles. Action p starts off when a speedboat explosion sets the stage for a gambling war s that ends only after a series of mis- _ 1 haps and misunderstandings between r a romantic pair, the investigator, and e the girl who operates a floating casino x in open defiance of of a powerful mob. o High-seas romance and an expose of _ red-handed racketeering in the gambi t ling game provide dramatic high j lights. "James Lee Wong,” in Ihe n person of Boris Karloff, makes his elbow in Monogram’s "Mr. Wong, Dei- tective,” which is the associated £ead ture. Joining the company of Charlie d Chan, Mr. Moto, the Saint, Philo e Vance, and others, James Lee Wong, e newest screen sleuth, is a fugitive •• from Collier’s Magazine, and a creas lion of Hugh Wiley, because for many f years Mr. Wiley’s "Wong” stories have been appearing in that, publicalion. James Lee Wong is a native of San Francisco, an educated, cultural Chinese. He is a scientist, "test tube’’ detective, who revels in intricate cases, the more baffling the mystery the more intrigued is Mr. Wong.