AMUSEMENTS
STATE THEATRE "CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA" If they can stand thrills occurring with staccato speed, excitemen't that rises like a tidal wave, and susponse that will have your spine a-tingle, "Charlie Chan at Ihe Opera," the Twentieth Century-Fox picture that 1 screens to-day af tlie State Theatre, : will provide you with a solid hour of , thiill-packed entertainment. With • Warner Oland as Charlie Chan, eneiny of crime, coniing face to face witb ; Boris Karloff, the king of terror, the picture is the high spot of the wily : C'hmese sleuth's career. The film opens with tho murder of an insane asylum ; gua, c. by Karloff, an inmate, whose = warped nmid recognises a picture of hii wife iu a newspaper. Bent on vengeance; Karloff completes his escape and goes to the theatre where hio wife is appareing in "Faust.*' Attacking tho baritone, Karloff dons his Mephistopheles costume and usurps his role on the (tage, disguised by the costume aud inask. Charlie '/hau, hot on the trail, appears Lackjtape at the opera but is unahie to preveut two more murders. When the mailman 's reign of terror strikes at two young lovers, Chan eraftilv apprehends him and, in a surprise denouement, umnaks the real killer. , | |
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 72, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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