DETECTIVE SCIENCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 7

DETECTIVE SCIENCE

SECRETS OF THE FRENCH k POLICE" AT I MAJESTIC. I COMING ON THURSDAY. 1 Murders, master detectives, hyp- S notism, abductions, and diabolically P plotted "accidental" deaths, all spac- 1 ed at breath-taking tempo, make "Sec- 1 rets of the French Police" one of the i best pictures of its kind ever screen- 0 ed or written. See it, by all means, | I at the Majestie Theatre nextj Thursday. J As taken from the memoirs of H. J Ashton-Wolfe, and combined with Samuel Ornitz's amazinig- story, "The Lost Empress," this RKO-(Radio Pic- i ture offers all the thrills possible to @ pack into an hour and a half nf RPrppri ^

entertainment. f| Gwili Andre, as the lovely Paris 8 flower girl who is abuducted by Czar- -il ist plotters, hypnotised, and present- ^ ed as the missing Princess Anastasia >1 of Russia, fulfills all the promise she || revealed in her early pictures. Gwili ra Andre is considered by many to he the 1 most heautiful woman on the screen 1 to-day. After seeing her in this pic- 1 ture it is little wonder how the im- J pression got out. • | A newcomer makes his bow in "Sec- | rets of the French Police." He is -j John Warburton, as handsome and as | able a. young leading man as ever / came from England to America. Ra- 4 dio signed him to a five year contract .] j as a result of his work opposite Miss I "; Andre. That fact is adequate com- j j ment on his appearance and his ahili- ' I ties. ]

Another deserving of the highest praise is Frank Morgan, who as one of Bertillon's detectives, gives a p'lausibility to the part that makes it stand out from all others in the story. Other^ who come in for high praise are Gregory Ratoff — remember him in "What Price Hollywood?" Arnold Korff, Ch'ristian Rub, and Lucien Prival. Photography by A1 GdHcs and directtion by Edward Sutherland combine to make "Secrets of the French Po.lice" ia four-star picture in anyone's rating.