GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 December 1932, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "The Drums of Jeopardy," the production now showing at the Grand Theatre, is a picturisation of Ilarold MacGrath's popular novel of the same title. Warner Oland, June Collyer, and Lloyd Hughes head a large cast, which includes Wallace MacDonald, George Fawcett, Hale Hamilton, Ernest Ililliard, M'ascha Auer, Clara Blandick, Florenee Lake, Ann Brody, land others. Florenee Ryerson did the adaptation and dialogue, and George B. Seitz directed. The story is of the type that Plarold MacGrath has proved a master at concocting. It concerns the efforts of the four remaining men of the royal Petroff family of Russia to aYoid the vengeance of Boris Karlov, a chemist with the diaholical ' cleverness of a demon. From Russia, after the Revolution, they flee to America. to onlist the services of a friend in the U.S. Secret Service. Try as they wil Ito outwit the cunning of Karlov, one by one they fall prey to his fiendishness — until there is only one Petroff left, and that is fine, splendid young Prince Nicholas, who is loved by an American girl, who shares many of his terrors. How Nicholas escapes Kaidov's vengeance and the avenger becomes the victim of his own demoniac cunning is told in "The Drums of Jeopardy," a thrill picture from the opening scene to the end.