CRYSTAL PALACE

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23131, 21 September 1940, Page 3

CRYSTAL PALACE

DOUBLE-FEATURE PROGRAMME

A well varied programme is offered at the Crystal Palace this week in a mystery, “Charlie Chan in Panama,” and “The Honeymoon’s Oyer,” a comedy of the most amusing kind. Sidney Toler again plays the part of the inscrutable detective, Chan, and he is assisted in the solving of the latest mystery by Jean Rogers and Sen Yung. ‘‘The Honeymoon’s Over” stars the excellent comedy team of Marjorie Weaver and Stuart Erwin with Patric Knowles and E. E. Clive.

Mr Chan is this time, in “Charlie Chan in Panama,” stationed in Panama to stop trouble on the day before America’s fleet passes throu >h the canal. It is essential fo* the enjoyment of the mystery that the answer to the question, Who is Ryner? should not be known until visitors to the film find the answer for themselves at the exciting end. The passengers on an aeroplane, bound from Colon to

Panama City, are suspicious of one another. At Panama one of them goes quickly to the shop where Mr Chan is waiting and is about to tell him the name of a dangerous sabotage agent when he drops dead, poisoned by a cigarette. Then Mr Chan goes quickly to work to find out who, among the passengers on the aeroplane, is the guilty one. The chase is exciting and dangerous and is conducted with the aplomb for whic Mr Chan has become famous to lilmgoers. “The Honeymoon’s Over” concerns the efforts of the newly-weds, Stuart Erwin and Marjorie Weaver, to Keep their heads above financial waters when they find themselves in the midst of numbers of party-loving people when they return to work after their honeymoon. Stuart Erwin is a hard working advertising agent who grows more and more worried as the expenses of the parties grow and his commissions fall off because he does not give enough time to his work. The trouble becomes acute wnen Marjorie Weaver, as the young wife, is involved in a motor accident on the way home from a party, and Stuart Erwin is forced to pay big damage costs to avoid

a public hearing for the insurance payments. He resorts to dishonest means to get out of the difficulty and then finds himself without a job. The end, however, is cheerful and the picture is very amusing throughout. CENTURY

The two films at the Century Theatre are Peter B. Kyne’s ‘'Valley of the Giants” and “The Cisco Kid and the Lady,” starring Cesar Romero and Marjorie Weaver. The programme will begin at 7.30 p.m. REX THEATRE Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes, and Wendy Barrie are in “Day Time Wife,” and Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, and Regis' Toomey in “The Invisible Menace,” the two pictures to be shown at the Rex Theatre, Riccarton, to-night and on Monday and Tuesday, commencing at 7.30 p.m. ,