AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVPRYBPDYS PICTURES.

“THE STUDIO MURDER MYSTERY”

Never before have mystery stories been so popular, and “The Studio Murder Mystery,” Paramount’s production of the thrilling and baffling story of a slayer hunt in the intriguing setting of a motion picture studio, will do nine'll to sustain and increase that interest. The Paramount picture at the Princess Theatre to-night (Saturday).

From the first breath-taking scenes in 'the dark, shadowy studio, on through the gripping drama that theatens the lives of six of Hollywood’s most interesting personages, “The Studio Murder Mystery” holds the interest at’-a high tension that is only relieved when the final surprise climax reveals the solution of the clover plot. Many mystery storeis have gripped the public imagination, but none have done it so completely and so thoroughly as “The Studio Murder Mystery.”

And yet, the plot and setting of the story give plenty of opportunity for observing the marvellous processes used in the production of motion pictures; The sequences, taken on actual stages, are revealing and intensely interesting to all who have observed the results of the riew era in motion pictures* from the outside. This is inside stuff worth seeing. The cast is superb. Truly, Paramount is producing up-to-the-minute pictures. Neil Hamilton is better than ever in this picture. Fredric March, Warner Oland, Florence Eldridge, and Doris Hill give Unsurpassable performances. “The Studio Murder Mystery” has everything—thrills, ‘drama, humor, pathos, love and, most of all, real honest-to-goodness entertainment for those who see it at the Princess Theatre. Also four shorts.

’—Keats,