Ben traver,s’ conception of a ‘‘haunted” room, an scon in “Thark,” is one of the weirdest imaginable. Both Ralph • Lynn and Tom Walls enter into tbo spirit of the idea with the ease find . artistry of the experienced acto r , and . the result is a real riot of amusement.j If that one chamber may bo taken as an indication of an average uight in j Thark Manor, it must have beea a. j cheerful place to live in. A purist in- j duced to see “Thark” afterwords: argued with his friend that the happenings were impossible in real life. He could not understand, ho said, why films did not deal with actualities, not improbabilities. What a viewpoint' , And is “Thark” so very improbable! after all? The very incidents which' arouse the laughter aTo quite possible; in the dead of night, in a houso which' has the reputation of being haunted, dust you, faint hoart, try to sleeji In
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7279, 5 October 1933, Page 9
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158Untitled Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7279, 5 October 1933, Page 9
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