MURDER MYSTERY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 644, 23 September 1933, Page 2

MURDER MYSTERY

HOUSE GUEST. AT HAUNTED C^STLE M^STERIOUSLY r jr,. MISSING/ * NOT DUE TO FATE. The most mysterious murder. mystery of the year will be haffling - the, people of Rotorua as it baffled the _poli.ce in "The Secret o.f the Rlue ' Room," when this. Universal mystery production opens at the Mjajeslfic Theatre on Friday, September 29. I Who killed Frank Faher? Where did Thomas Brandt disappear. to? "iNio trace, no cl-ue — Inothing- — com,pletely vanished out of a'room which •had not been opened fpr twenty years — the haunted Blue Room of the Castle Von Hellsdorf. And upon this mysterious disappearance there fol'lows swiftly an inexplicable murdqr. (The presence of a mysterious 'stranger hovering around the castle, further complicates the solution of fhe mystery. Even the efficient, unruffled chief of the Homicide Squad, '^0'ster, summoned in th'e dead of ' jiight to unravel the murder, is coip*j).letely baffled by the conflicting sto-ries told by hysterical memhers' of the household and by the unusual ' servants. ' Added to this, there is the unperturhabie, reserved head of the .castle, Robert vo(u Helljsdorf, who ' seems to hold the key to the solution and yet withholds it for reasons of his own. This ds the dramaticl situation' which is. unfolded in "The Secret of 'the Blue Room," which has in its stellar cast Lio'nel Atwill, master of mystery characterisation, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stua.rt, Onslo.w Stevens, 'Williamj Janney, M'uriel Kirkland, Edward Arnold, Russell Hopton, and Elizabeth Patterson,. It was written for the screen by William Hurlbut, noted playwright who is under con"tract to Universal, ' and , was directed hy Kuri Neumann.