AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. X-v TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY. ] massive settings in “DRACUtA”’ FILM. Sonie Of tile' mbst picturesque settings in the , histdry of the’ screed are included" id “Dkaerila,” Universal’s weird mystery drama' which coin Os to the Princess Theatre to-night and Tuesday. 1 Many of the earlier scenes are laid; A in knd about the crumbling stoiie castle of Count Dracula, an ancient ruin which haSj r ,been unoccupied for 500, years—-except by Dracula and \ “undead’?;, vampires who retujjn.jnightY ly from the grave, and make of the castle a veritable hoilseTsfhorrors. Some of the most massive sets in the history of Hollywood were constructed for this picture, showing various chambers in an advanced-state of dis- • order, with storie balustrades and pillars fallen into disordered ruins, and the entire interior festooned with cobwebs. There are hair-raising scenes in a graveyard, with a female vampire, risen from her grave, wandering disconsolately among / the-tombstones. Opening sequences depict a picturesque j inn in tile mountains of Transylvania, '-and a' rocky: mountain pass on a foggy night, with wolves howling in the darkness. Amid ...these, picturesque settings is enacted' what is said to tie the screen s strangest story,-with the-famous Bela Lugosi in the title role ,of Count Dracula, and a cast' which also includes David Manners' Helen, Chandler, ward Van Sloan, Dwight'Frye, Frances Dade and Herbert" Buhston,