PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 6

PLAZA THEATRE.

"The Mad Miss Manton."

A sparkling and novel form of film entertainment is offered 'in RKORadio's "The Mad Miss Manton," with Barbara Stanwyck and" Henry Fonda co-starred and Sam Levene • heading the featured cast, which opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre. With a mysterious double killing as its basis, the picture combines the thrills of a detective story, the laughs of a highspeed comedy, "and the complications of a stormy romance to make up what is said to be one of the year's most interesting offerings. Miss Stanwyck has the title role as a spoiled and wilful society girl, who, with the assistance of a group of debutante followers, manages to keep in continual hot water by her .escapades. Fonda is a young newspaperman who castigates the lady in a scorching editorial, and is promptly sued for libel. Because of her reputation, Miss Stanwyck is disbelieved by the police when she reports finding a dead body—which vanishes before the officers can arrive. Irritated at this attitude, she gathers her faithful cohorts a#id decides to solve the mystery herself, just to prove she is not as useless as Fonda's editorial makes her out to be. The first body leads to a second, which, arouses the interest of Sam Levene, a worldweary detective lieutenant, who suspects Miss Stanwyck knows more about the two killings than she will reveal. His efforts to1 solve the case, Fonda's, hectic conflict with Miss Stanwyck which develops into an impetuous romance, and her dogged search forj clues to the identity of the murderer ] all lead to an exciting climax in which j Levene persuades Miss Stanwyck to act ■ as "bait" in an elaborate trap that has J unexpected consequences.