House Guest at Haunted Castle Mysteriously Missed

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 5

House Guest at Haunted Castle Mysteriously Missed

LOVE IS MOTIVE OF BATTLING “SECRET OE THE BLUE ROOM’’

Following Thomas Brandt’s unaccountable disappearance, Frank Faher, a house guest, is inexplicably killed in the blue room, which has been closed for 20 years. That is the baffling’ problem of “The Secret of the Blue Room,’’ which commences at the Regent theatre to-morrow week.

The most mysterious murder mystery of the year will be baffling people as it baffled the police in “The Secret of the Blue Room,” when this Universal mystery production opens. Who killed Frank Faber? Where did Thomas Brandt disappear to? No trace, no clue—nothing,—completely vanished out of a room which had not been opened for twenty yenrs—the haunted Blue Room of the Castle Von Hellsdorf. And upon this mysterious disappearance there follows swiftly an inexplicable murder. The presence of a mysterious stranger hovering around the "castle, further complicates the solution of the mystery. Even the efficient, unruffled chief of the Homicide Squad, Foster, summoned in the dead of night to unravel the murder, is completely baffled by the conflicting stories told by hysterical members of the household and by the unusual servants. Added to this, there is the unperturbablo, reserved head of the castle, Robert von Hellsdorf, who seems to hold the key to the solution and yet withholds it for reasons of his own. This is the dramatic situation which is unfolded in “Tho Secret of the Blue Room,” which has in its stellar cast Lionel A twill, master of mystery characterisation, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart, Onslow Stevens, William Janney, Muriel Kirkland, Edward Arnold, Russell Hopton and Elizabeth Patterson. _ It was written for tho screen by William Hurlbut, noted playwright who is under contract to Universal, and was directed by Kurt. Neumann.