LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 16

LYRIC

“THE GHOST TRAIN” “The Ghost Train,” which was shown last evening at the Lyric Theatre amid shrieks and gurgles from the audience, is based on the famous stage play. A small party of passengers are stranded at midnight in a remote little wayside railway station, where they are forced to remain until morning. The station-master tells them of a mysterious ghost train that is supposed to mean death to all who see it. The appearance of this train and its driver is said to happen just before midnight. This happens every year on the day of the disaster to an express some years ago, and the folks of tjie countryside are terror-stricken. During the night many eerie things happen, and the small party of passengers are frightfully nervy when the rumbling of the train is heard. A young man, posing as a brvnless practical joker, actually a Scotland Yard detective, unravels the mystery when he switches the ghost train on a dead line, and it is discovered that the ghost train is a blind to steal contraband into the country. Guy Newall is excellent as the detective, who conceals his vigilance behind a mask of simplicity, while Miss Burns gives a fine performance in a bi'oad comedy vein as the temperance reformer. The newly-weds, played by John Manners and Anna Jennings, and the much-married pair, by Ernest Verebes and Agnes Korolenko, are extremely well characterised. Rin-Tin-Tin, the world’s most famous dog, adds gems to his collar by his latest picture, “A Dog of the Regiment,” in which he plays the part of a Rod Cross dog of the Germans, who for the sake of an old friendship saves the life of an American ace whose plane is wrecked and burning. Rinty afterwards escapes with his pal in an air-flight of many breath-taking thrills.