AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 424, 4 May 1937, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. CHARLIE CHAN AGAIN. A big top chief is found dead, a murderer terrorises the ranks of the circus performers, and then the wily Chinese detective, Charlie Chl>n, is called upon to solve -he most terrifying mystery of his long career. How Warner Oland, as Charlie Chan, tracks down the killer through a fascinating maze of clues at the risk of his own life it revealed in the Fox thriller, ’‘Charlie Chan at the Circus,” which screens at the Plaza to-night and to-morrow night. With the circus as the scene of the crime, Chan finds himself involved with a mass of clues. The dead owner not having been on friendly terms with his performers, leaves. all of ‘he troupe open to suspicion, including even the savage gorilla who wtas miss, ing from hit cage at the time of the crime.

When a poisonous cobra finds its way to Chan’s room and almost puts an end to the wily detective’s career, he becomes convinced that the murderer is one of the troupe. Chan, however, proves too clever for his adversaries, and escapes further attempts upon his life. The murderer returns to the scene of tne crime to prevent one of the troupe from revealing his identity, and Chan cleverly baits him into a trap and brings to an end his reign of terror. Warner Oland plays his eleventh Charlie Chan role in this new Fox mystery. King’s Theatre. “Daniel Boone”

Hardships and perils o£ early settlers In America, the courage and determination they displayed, are all brought to life on the screen in "Daniel Boone,’’ which screens at the King’s Theatre to-night. Starring George O’Brien as Boone, and featuring Heather Angel as the young aristocrat who follows her family into the wilderness and eventually gives her heart to Boone, the story dramatises one of the most heroic accomplishments of one of the most intriguing epochs in American history. It. depicts the migration of the thirty families of Yadkin, North Carolina, who set out to carve a new home out of the wilderness which lay beyond the Cumberland Mountains. Led by Boone, they begin their epic journey, transporting livestock, house possessions and farm implements through forests, over rushing rivers and into untracked bad lands. After the new settlement of Boonesborough is erected it is subjected to a nine-day attack by Indians, and when this battle has been won the settlers learn that they have been swindled out of their new holdings by Unscrupulous politicians. Episodes in the life of Boone, as well as the costuming and geographical settings of the period at the close of the eighteenth century, are reproduced in striking and romantic detail. Included in the cast are John Carradine, Dickie Jones, George Regas, Ralph Forbes, Clarence Muse, and Crawford Kent, David Howard directed this Hirliman production made for RKO Radio Pictures.