MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 119, 12 January 1932, Page 6

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT "Lucy Weston has had three transfusions within a week — and yet she died from loss of blood." This was the pronouncement of a famous consulting physician, who declared also that Miss Weston showed no traces of anaemia. But the blood had unquestionably been drained from her body. Eventually the terrible story was revealed, and the two small red spots on her neck took on a new signifi- ' cance. .They were the marks left by the fangs of a vampire — a bloodthirsty fiend in human form — one of the mysterious "undead" who rise from their graves in the hours of darkness to satiate their horrible appetites. And the doctor was just beginning to realise that the author of these terrible crimes was the suave Count Dracula, whose family had been extinct for 500 years! This is a part of the strange story of "Dracula," the hair-raising Universal drama which opened last night at the Majestic Theatre, with a cast including Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston, Dwight Frye and Frances Dade. Tod Browning directed.