A drama of thrills and chills, "The Great Gambini" which has its Shanghai premiere to-day at the Grand Theatre, deals but briefly with the supernatural before getting down to its real business of giving the audience a first rate mystery to solve.
Akim Tamiroff, who has collected quite a gallery of weird portrayals in his two years' rise to stardom, is a mind reader. Assisted by beautiful Lya de Lys, he does all the usual stunts of reading sealed letters. asking the blindfolded medium to tell what the gentleman has in his waistcoat pocket and the like.
When John" Trent asks whether Marian Marsh will marry on the morrow the man for whom she has jilted him, the' answer is a decided No! This proves to be quite correct, for next morning wealthy man-about-town Roland Drew, the bridegroom-to-be, is found murdered.
Here is something for the amateur detective to get his teeth into, Just a hint in advance, however. Every member of the Cathay-Grand organization who attended the preview guessed wrong.
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