MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 19

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"THE INVISIBLE RAY" TO-NIGHT. A spectacular and genuinely thrilling •motion picture, "The Invisible Ray," a Ufiiversai drama, sei'eeus at the Hastings Municipal Theatre to-night. KarlofE and Bela Lugosij two of the screen 's most sinister figures, are eo-starred again in this remarkable picture, which combixies mysteryand startliiig adventure with a • depictiCn of scientific marvels- not yet actually aceomplished by experimentors. Kaflofl;, as a ."lone woif"- seientist -working entirely by himself, brings down from the heavens an actual reproduction" of the battle of suns and. stars 'million of- years ago, and the great glass dome of his laboratdry is» filled with bliuding light as prahistoric . eyents In a starty .nebula are relived'. Later he discovers a substance a thousand, times more powerful than radium, and looses if bn his onemies before' an aceiddnt fiiially makes "him a victlm of his owil riithlessUeSs. "The Invisible Ray" was directed by Lambeft Hillyer, aud the' e&st appeariug in support of Karloff and Lugosi includes Frank Lawton, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Beulah Boadi aud Violet Kemble Cooper. Do not fail to see this gripping and remarkably colourful picture. Roger Pryer and Heather Angel appear "Headline Woman," the second feature on the programme.