PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 17

PLAZA

“THE TERROR” Agra in on Saturday there were record crowds at each performance of the screen transcription of the famous English crook and spook play, “The Terror,” Warner Bros.’ latest and greatest mvstery picture. “The Terror” is an all-talking picture, there being no sub-titles whatever. “The Terror” has had a run of over three years in London, where its author, Edgar Wallace, has three successes running simultaneously. An all-star cast appears, including May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett-Horton and Alec. B. Francis. The locale is a dilapidated and unearthly manor house in rural England, occupied by an aged doctor, who has converted it into a rest cure His daughter Olga lives with him —and his later guests make up a helter-skelter of humanity scarcely even seen outride the walls of a mad house. Rumour has it that the vast loot secured by a bank robbery is secreted :n the house, and that the thief is also hidden there. Pandemonium breaks loose when crooks, cops, hysterical ladies, and the rest are hounded by a fearful cloaked monster, known as “The Terror.” The creepy, laughable, inexplicable happenings keep the audience spellbound. “The Terror” deserves to be called the most astonishing playon the supernatural ever screened.. All of the short talkie features, which are also being shown, are of a very high standard. There are two violin solos by Albert Spalding, several charming folk songs by Isa Kremer the Rusian prima donna; jazz by Roger Kahn’s New York Orchestra, songs and music by the Four Aristocrats. an all-talkiner comedy about the Fire Brigade, and finally a TJ.F.A. gem and Empire News.