MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 118, 11 January 1932, Page 6

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT An ancient superstition, which elaims that "undeaxi" persons, hovering strangely between life and death, leave their graves on a certain night fof each year, forms the basis of "Dracula," the hair-raising Universal drama which comes to the Majestic Theatre to-night. This old belief still persists in ceri tain parts of Europe, and as the fateful night approaches abject terror seizes the peasants of the district, . who cease all activities at sundown, and securely bolt all doors and windows. Wolves howl in the hills — and it is claimed that these animals are i in reality human vampires who are able to change themselves at will into either wolves or bats, and thus gain access to places where a human being could not penetrate. Count Dracula is the strange vampire of this startling story, and a trail of terror and death results from his horrible influence. The picture, it is said, has been produced with such sincerity and such artistry that the spectator is apt to forget for the moment that the story is what might be described as a glorified fairy tale, and to be completely carried away by the strange atmosphere of the play. Bela Lugosi plays the title role of "Dracula," while other members of the cast are Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Frances Dade, Dwight Frye and Herbert Bunston.