STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 19

STATE THEATRE

r ^ "CHARLIE OHAN AT THE OPERA'* If they can stand thrills oecurring with staccato ' speed, 4 exeitement . tbat nses like a tidal wave, and suspense tbat ■will haye your . spine a-tihgle, ' ' Cbarjie Chan ' at The Opera, ' ' the Twentietb Genfcury-Fox picture tbat screens to-day at the State Theatre, will provide yoii with a solid hour of thiill-paeked- entertainment. With Warner Oland as« Charlie ; Chan, enemy of crina,e, coming face to face with Boris Karloff, the -king' of- terror, the picture is the high. ,spot of the wily1 Chinese slquth's career. The filnx opens with the murder of an insdne asylum guaid -by Karloff, an inmate, whose warped mind recognises a picture of his wife in a "newspaper. Bent on \engeanee, "Karloff completes his escape an,d , goes to the theatre wh,erq his wifo is appareing-in ( 'Faust." At-; tacking the baritone, Karloff dons his Mephistopheles costtime and usurps his rolo on the stage, disguisedf'by the cosfcume and mask. Charlie Chan, hot on the trail, ap-. pears back'jtape at the opera but: ia unabJLe to preveut two more mur'ders, When the niadman's reign of terror sfcrikes at two young lovers, Chan craftily apprehends him and, in a surprise denoixement, qnmaks the real killer.