HIS MAJESTY’S
“THE SILENT HOUSE” The popularity of the tense drama with Auckland playgoers was again demonstrated last evening when another large audience was thrilled by Maurice Moscovitch’s presentation of “The Silent House,” at His Majesty’s Theatre. A well-conceived plot hinges on the supposed theft of a jewelled star by an Englishman trading in the East, and the attempt by devious and sinister means of Dr. Chan Fu, an Oriental scientist and medical man of mystery, y.o find the lost jewel with the assistance of a coterie of miscreants. All the venom and spleen of the scheming mind of Dr. Chan Fu are portrayed with perfection and restraint by Moscovitch, who merges his own personality with that of the mysterious mandarin. Nat Madison, his son, takes the part of Ho Fang, the Chinese servant of a house of Winsford against which Chan Fu and his gang have set themselves. Reginald Newson, as Captain George Winsford, heir to the Winsford estate left by his uncle the English trader, interprets his part with unblemished excellence. Along with “The Silent House,” on an English moor he has been bequeathed bonds to the value of a quarter of a million sterling—if they can be found and converted within four days. The murders effected by Ho Fang with Eastern complaisance, provide creepy thrills. Auckland will have the opportunity of seeing “The Silent House” until Thursday evening.
The screen rights of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s sensational story, “Head and Shoulders,” for the acquisition of which there has been considerable rivalry among the leading companies, have been acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Further details will be announced later.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 402, 10 July 1928, Page 15
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268HIS MAJESTY’S Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 402, 10 July 1928, Page 15
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