PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 15

PLAZA

“THE DRAKE CASE” A murder trial, courtroom picture that’s different, refreshingly new in story and treatment, “The Drake Case,” sensational all-talking film, is now at the Plaza Theatre. An all-star cast, headed by the emotional Gladys Brockwell, Forrest Stanley, Robert Frazer, James Crane and | Doris Lloyd was assembled for “The Drake Case,” an original story by Charles Logue, and it is one of the most unusual and thrilling pictures of its kind. Miss Brockwell plays the role of the defendant in the case, accused of murder. Stanley is iri a role in which he has shown his finesse as an actor —the prosecuting district attorney. Frazer is the defence attorney and Crane and Miss Lloyd have equally important parts. The story is built about the murder of the wealthy Mrs. George Morgan Drake for which a servant in her home, Gladys Brockwell, is arrested. Others in the cast are Bill Thorne, Eddie Hearne, Tommy Dugan,•Byron Douglas, Francis Ford, Henry Barrows, Amber Norman and Barbara Leonard. Chief among the talkie items on the remainder of the programme is the first New Zealand-made Sound Gazette. The incidents seen and heard include views of Bishop Cleary’s funeral of work on the waterfront road and on i the wharf, “Queen Street at 5 p.m..” ! and of the making of the talking Maori j film, “The Romance of Maoriland.” J