THE REGENT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 6

THE REGENT

‘THE TERROR

ALL-TALKIE THRILLER TO-DAY

Mystery plays at times are apt to pail. But this cannot be said of “The Terror,” Warner Bros.’ latest and greatest, mystery all-talking drama, which opens to-day at 2 p.m. at the Regent. It was reported that, at the initial screening of the pietuie in Auckland, women in the audience shrieked aloud as the evil machinations of the “Terror” were untoldeel on the .screen. In addition to Edward Everett Horton in the lean, there is a very strong east, the principal parts being taken by May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, and Alex Francis. The story is commenced with the release from prison of two men who have just finished a term of 10 years for robbing a bank. It Ks well-known, however', that the leader of the band was one O’Shea, who is also suspected of being tm“Terror.” The scene then shifts to the locality in which the “Terror” is operating—a lonely manor which is conducted as a sanatorium by a doctor. With the latter is his beautiful daughter. At the house there are also a butler, and two people—a man and a woman—who are staying there. The woman is a spiritualist. and slie finds a companion in Alfred, the other boarder. The doctor is first seen looking at a newspaper report of the release of Joe and “Soapy.” and lie surreptitiously burns the paper. Next his daughter is seen in her room. There is a storm raging without- anc! the window is blown open. She goes to shut it. and, looking out she secs a lioodpd figure running through the grounds. She screams and her father comes running to her. She tells linn that she lias seen the figure in blade again, and he tolls her that it must have been her imagination. This is but the first of many rimes that- the “Terror” appears, and always, in his wake, is tragedy. The talkie featurottes include Roger Wolf Kahn and his orchestra, assisted bv Henri Gardner, tenor singer; and the Williams Sisters, singing and dancing youngsters, in popular numbers ; Mary Lewis, soprano of the Metropolitan Onera Co., assisted by a male chorus, sines popular numbers: Jfpv Schepp. America’s master ban joist, plays “Dfirkev’s Dream” and “Massa’s in Dp Cold. Cold Ground” ; and Y'al and Ernie Stanton, world-famous comedians, appear in the eomedv sketch. “Cut Voursolf a Piece of Cake.”