CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 14

CIVIC

“TEMPLE TOWER” The mystery melodrama, ‘TW* Tower,” which is the chief traction at the Civic Theatre, :g W on a story by “Sapper, and is a seen ■ to “Bulldog: Drummond,” which * seen in Auckland some months a=t ? The story centres largely around sensational jewel robbery, which lea * Captain Drummond and his Peter Darrell, to investigate certsstrange happenings at Temple Towe an old English manor house. Tie r '.' vestigators have to run the gaun:M the elaborate preparations the otcar ers of the tower have made to keej* truders cut. Remarkably* thriJir* effects are produced by the dexttrei use of unusual lighting and sin-; effects. Kenneth Mac Kenna takes the of “Bulldog” Drummond and the chosen cast includes Marceline ft Henry B. Walthall, Cyril Chadt ic - and A. B. Dane. As a part of the supporting gramme, Strauss’s well-known nun “The Chocolate Soldier.” is play<d f T Mr. Ted Henkel’s orchestra anc J[Fred Scholl play's “Popular on the grand organ. An interesting feature of the programme is the views of Arapun the power house, spillway, dam and fcjncj forest, all taken during the las: f-•, days.