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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 17

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LON CHANEY’S LATEST Lon Chaney in “London After Mid- : night,” is the picture at present heint i shown at the Grand Theatre. Chane ! abandons his usual roles to play .1 modern detective, clever, alert, utilisI ing present day science to battle superi stitions of the past. And, as the detc < - tive, he assumes several uncanny disguises—and even lets the audience int • secrets of his makeup, when, as th • detective, he applies a disguise befor• the eyes of the audience. It is a story of a strange crime cloaked behind the ghosts of an old , haunted manor house in England. Chaney a fftuden • this uncanny art to mak“ the murderer in the case return to the **ne of his crime and re-enact it. t The picture is so handled that unt.i the final fadeout the problem is :ri . mystery—almost everyone is suspected of being the criminal. There arc thrills, creepy moments and a pretty love story. And Chaney is splendid The “Film Daily’s” annual poll o' newspaper critics and fan and tradt 1 magazine staff writers place thro* r M.-G.-M. productions among the firs * ten— The Big Parade.” “Flesh and th* 1 Devil." and “Ben- Hur.” As the poll i 1 conducted by 286 critics tiuroughou i the U.S., this is an unprecedented tribute.