"THE TERROR."

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 121, 24 May 1928, Page 5

"THE TERROR."

More than any other of Edgar Wallace's mystery plays, "The Terror," Is calculated to thrill and amaze. The tension becomes so acute that stout patrons quiver like jellies on the dining car table, and lean ones thrum like ratlines in a gale. In real fact, it would have taken only a sudden noise in the darkened house last night to make patrons jump in their seats, and the intervals wcro merry with the relaxed geniality. In the preceding play Mr. Maurice Moscovltch was a shady lawyer, whom evil associations had weakened, hut last night his part was that of a lodger whose drinking never quito seems to master a brilliant intellect, and whose weakness is really a cloak for his real designs. He bore the character well. As Soapy Marks, a chatty and companionable criminal of the small goods order, Mr. Nat, Madison, in his disguise as a clergyman, contributed witty dialogue. Mrs. Elvery, a criminologist with a penchant for past famous cases, was well portrayed by Miss Mildred Cottell. Her flapper daughter was well played by Miss Mary MacGvcgor, and these two make a lot of the fun. Sentiment is provided by the tender passages between Mary Kcdmayne (Miss Bertha Riccardo) and tho mysterious drinking lodger, who shows gleams of fine traits. The police element is well burlesqued in a strong cast, and what happens in the haunted house makes an absorbing evening's entertainment with revelation, in.the Wallace way, crowding tho final minutes. "The Terror" will be repeated nightly.