GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. No stranger story, no more unique achievement in screen drama has come to the Grand Theatre than "The Monkey's Paw," which flickered its spellbinding way across the screen last night. "The Money's Paw" is an audacious blasting of our belief that we have risen above supei'stition. It proves that the civilised man is savage in his belief of the power of good luck pieces. "The Monkey's Paw" is not a mystery tale. It contains no dark dungeons, clanking chains, spectres or groans. There is nothing to solve — but decidedly there is something to i think about in this story laid in a pretty English cottage. j Five lives are bound up in the ex- , traordinary happenings. C. Aubrey ' Smith' as the one-armed SergeantMajor; Ivan Simpson as John White;* Louise Carter as; Mrs. Jenny White; Bramwell Fletcher as Herbert White; and Betty Lawford as Rose, his sweetheart, all give performances that are very- human and very app-eal-ing. Those who believe they are immune to the insidious suggesti.-.-i of superstition should test themselves against the spell of "The Monkey's Paw."