'The King Murder,' 'Chandu The Magician,' R-K-O Bill

Features to Be Shown In Mid-Week Program Starting Tomorrow

“The King Murder,” Chesterfield’s screen version of the popular mystery novel of a year or two ago, is a feature opening tomorrow at Proctor’s Theater. Set colorfully in the background of New York night life, it depicts the efforts of Detective Barton to apprehend the murderer of Miriam King. Miriam, a gay blonde, had stepped high, wide and handsome down the Gay White Way, and it would not have been surprising if any one of a dozen assorted gentlemen had decided to put an end to her unscrupulous career. As a matter of fact, when Barton arrived on the scene of the murder in her apartment, there were definite clues that pointed to several of Miriam’s admirers and at least one of her rivals.

Technical and research laboratories throughout Southern California were ransacked for high-frequency electrical apparatus during the filming of “Chandu The Magician,” which also opens at Proctor’s tomorrow, at the Fox Studios. The ensuing scenes of the picture are said to be among the most unusual ever made. A death-ray gun, used in the film, required highly complicated and powerful electrical machinery to operate it, and the co-directors of the film, Marcel Varnel and William C. Menzies, accordingly assembled a formidable array of equipment for the laharotory sequences. With a giant Ouidin coil having a terminal voltage of a million and a half as the principal feature, and Tesla coils, rows of X-ray and Geissler tubes, huge condensers, rotary gaps and giant transformers scattered about the big room, it proved a terrifying place for the staff. Henry B. Walthall, who as the inventor, Regent, had to stroll unconcernedly about during the glittering display of lightning bolts, was no less unconcerned.