KING’S THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 15

KING’S THEATRE

Chan On Broadway” And “Hot Money” It is probable that 20th Century-Fox Films will run out of plota for mystery stories before the public becomes tired of seeing Charlie Chan solving them. Having visited the ends of the earth in the

pursuit of crime, the übiquitous Chan now finds himself on Broadway in the new picture -which heads the programme at’the I King’s Theatre. This time he is interested ; in the murder of a I girl who was one of i his fellow passengers i on the liner bringing him from Europe to | America. Her behaviour on the boat

UUVIUIH Uli lUU uuai had aroused his suspicions, and this leads him to the discovery that she was intending to blackmail prominent citizens with the damaging contents of a diary which she possessed. “Charlie Chan on Broadway” is up to standard. That is to say, the mystery is baffling, and the urbane Warner Oland-Chau is as well supplied with Oriental proverbs as ever, while his efforts to restrain his high-spirited son (Keye Luke) are also amtfsing. Another film of a series is to be found in the second feature, “Hot Water,” the latest episode of the doings of the Jones Family. It likewise will not disappoint admirers of this brand of entertainment. On this occasion the homely humour of the Joneses centres round the adventures of John Jones (Jed Prouty), ae an unwilling candidate for the mayoralty of his town.