'THE CAT AND THE CANARY'

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 4

'THE CAT AND THE CANARY'

INTRIGUING MYSTERY DRAMA Mystery in its most enthralling form, compounded with tragedy and drama, combine to form one of tne most startling and compelling dramas ever filmed in ‘ The Cat and the Canary/ the Universal production which will have its initial screening at the Empire Theatre on Friday next. The story was taken from the famous stage success of the same name, by John Willard. It concerns the adventures of a group of six people who are gathered together in an abandoned country mansion at the hour of midnight. They had been brought there by the reading of n will left by a wealthy recluse. The attorney reveals that the testament names Annabelle West, played by Laura La. Plante, as the chief legatee. Almost immediately after the contents of the will have been disclosed things beg'n to happen to those who had gathered in the spooky old mansion, which had been in the solo care of a negro voodoo-worshipping mammy. Throughout the unfolding of the dramatic sequences of the photo-drama run all the elements of suspense, mysterious disappearances, murder, and emotional climaxes.

Latira. La Plante is admirable as the harassed heroine, and her supporting cast does splendid work. The other featured players are Arthur Edmund Carew, Forrest Stanley, Tally Marshall, Martha Mattox, Lucien Littlefield, George Siegmann, Flora Finch, Gertrude all of whom, interpret their parts with finished dramatic atistry.