EXCITING STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 408, 17 December 1932, Page 7

EXCITING STORY

"CHANDU, THE MAGIGIAN," POPULAR MYSTERY DRAMA... EDMUND LOWE STARRING. "Chandu, the Magician," popular mystery drama of the air, filmed as a feature by Fox, will reach the screen on the Majestic Theatre next Saturday, with Edwund Lowe portraving the great worker--of-magic in i he title role. Each dramatic situation in the picture was taken from the original story written by Harry A. Earnshaw, Yera M. Oldham and R. R. Morgan, and all are said to have been celevly woven into a tensely exeiting filmplay by the well-known screen writing team of Philip Klein and Barry Conners. Co-directed by Marcel .Varnal and William Cameron Menzies, "Chandu, the Magician" is said to be the last word in spine-quivering entertainment. Especially is this true of the settings

and photography, both of which came under the supervision of Menzies, formerly an art director and winner of the Aeademy award for unusual set designing. The locale of the plot is along the upper reaebes of the Nile River, where Lowe, a3 Chandu goes in search of the larch-fiend, Roxor, played by Bela Lugosi, chief villain of the film. Chandus' effort to regain possession of a powerful Death Ray stolen by Roxor furnishes the chief confiict of the story. Further drama is furnished when Roxor attempts to force the beautifu] Egyptian Prineess Nadji to lend him the support of her people, and when he also kidnaps the family of the man who inyented the Death Ray. Other familiar characters are Regent, the inventor; Dorothy, his wil'e; Betty Lou and Bobby, played respectively by llenry Walthall, Virginia Hammond, June Vlasek and Nestoi Aber. Irene Ware, beautiful "Vanities" queen and "Miss America" oi 1929, enacts the role of Prineess Nadj: in the. feminine lead. The romance that develops between her and Lowe fulfills the love interest of the picture, which is said to be replete witl suspense, hilarious comedy, and ar awe-inspiring climax that features th( threatened destruction of the worlc by the Death Ray.