AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 37, 27 May 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“THE 13TH.

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Many notable players-are assembled around Game May Whitty in “The Thirteenth -Chair,” the picture in wliiclf mysticism and psychology are cleverly woven into a baffling murder mystery story, which screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Saturday and Monday.

In company with Dame May Whitty. are Madge Evans, Lewis Stone,' Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck, Henry Daniell, Janet Beecher, and Ralph Eorbes.

The new Metro-Go I dwyn-Mayor picture is a radical departure from the stereotyped form of mystery plays. George B. Seitz directed the picture, from a screen play by Marion Parsonnet, which was adapted from the famous play by Bayard Veiiler. The locale of the gripping drama is in India, with an inexplicable murder committed when 13 people are sitting around a table in the dark holding hands during a seance. Although the local police are baffled, the medium takes a hand and, employing her knowledge.,of;.mysticism and psycho logy, brings the culprit to justice. “SAN QUENTIN” With Pat O’Brien, starred, and such excellent players as Humphrey Bogart, Barton Mac Lane, Joseph Sawyer and Ann Sheridan in supporting roles, the Warner Bros. First National melodrama “Sau Quentin” will be screened at the De Luxe Theatre on Saturday and Monday. While the story is laid in and about the famous penitentiary, that juts into San Francisco Bay, it is not ones of those sorrowful movies about condemned men and last hours and that sort of thing. There is no execution, there is nothing sobby about the picture and it is enlivened by many scenes taken “outside”- —even by a San l 1 raneisep night club, where Miss Sheridan is a singer who falls in love with O’Brien, '"’ho is an ex-Army officer just appointed to lie Captain of the yard at Sail Quentin. It is simply a swiftly-moving melodrama dealing with the prisoner'', the lives they lead.

Many of the scenes were made at San Quentin itself.