GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 523, 5 May 1933, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Such famous murder cases as the Molyneaux, Patriek, Crippen and Dr. Waite killings, which held the newspaper front pages for months in the United States and England, are recalled by their similarity to the carefully planned murder shown in "As the Devil Commands," featuring Alan Dinehart, Mae Clarke and Neil Hamilton, now showing at the Grand Theatre. In "As the Devil Commands," Dinehart plays the role of a crafty lawyer, who presents a gentle and benevolent face to the world, but who has a sinister soul. In cold blooded fashion, I just as though he were executing a chess manoeuvre and hnman life was merely a pawn in the game, Dinehart | kills a helpless old invalid so that he | may inherit his great fortune, and j then craftity arranges the scene so ' that Hamilton, his rival for the love j of Miss Clarke, will be fo'und guilty of the heinous crime and legally put to death. How the inevitable human eqnation, which has ballced virtually all the ingenious 'attempts to commit the perfect crime, arises to bring this remarkable criminal to justice for his foul deeds, makes up the plot of this picture. In the second feature, "That's My Boy," there are stirring football scenes, made in 1931 of the teams of the University of Southern California, whieh was awarded the mythical national championship, following its victories over Notre Dame and Tulane, and the team from St. Mary's College, which earlier in the season had administered a 13 to 0 setback to Southern California in one of the greatest football games ever played.