MAJESTIC THREATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 559, 16 June 1933, Page 7

MAJESTIC THREATRE

i fb-NlGH'l'. • "j ^ ~ • ' j "The Mask of Fu Manehu," filmi- . j sation of Sax •E.ohmer's famous- lihys- ? , tery .story, with Bqris Karloff in the , role of ,the sinister Asiatic wonderI worker, as the attraetion now at the, ; Majestic Theatre. J Thrills of every sort, fronx the uneanny ^ iab oratory where artificiial lightning and. a mysteriious ."dejath i ray" -aspe created, to -grini ■driental torture chamhers are among the bizarre thrills of .the .plct, whieh starts in, .the eerie Limehpuse seetion of London an'd sh.fts to Egypt. and the Orient. • An important dast appears w'ith | Karloff, ineludiiriig'.irewiis. Stone, Karen j lVIorely, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, j Jean Hershplt, Lawrence- Grant and ! Dayrd Torrence. The picture w!a.s dircoied hy. Charles Brabin, whQ will he remembered for h,is effective work, ori "Beast of the City.' The plot of "Thei Mask of Fu Manehu" deals wiith the quest of a group of lEnglish scientests . for. the hidden tomb of Ghengis Khian, the great Asiatie ruler who , alniost cpnquered Europ'e. Dr. F. Manehu also seeks this tomb in order to seize a buried talisman, proclaim himself the reinearniation of the leader and start an Asiatic upnising against Europe, Nayland Smith; Scotland Yard detective, is pitted . against the wily Oriental.| Fu Manehu eaptures and tortures Sir Lipnel Barton and the deteetive, who are trying to find the hiding place of the sacred relics; He has a hug;e rohot contro.lled, hy .a mysterious ray, whieh he plan^ to pse in his uprising. Tlie Orientlai's daughter becorpes infatuated with Terry, the young assisfcant of the seientist, and througk this friendship Fu Manehu is defeated.