'THE CAT AND THE CANARY'

Evening Star, Issue 19773, 25 January 1928, Page 5

'THE CAT AND THE CANARY'

DRAMA GF MYSTERY Throughout the unfolding of the dramatic sequences of the photo-drama, ‘The Cat and the Canary,’ run all the elements ol .suspense, disappearances, murder, and emotional climaxes. Mystery in its most enthralling form, compounded wilh tragedy and drama, combine to form ono of the most startling and compelling dramas over 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 success of the same name, by John Millard. 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 a will left' by a wealthy recluse. The attorney reveals that the testament names Annabcdle West, played by Laura La Plante, as the chief legatee. Almost immediately after the contents of the will have been disclosed things beg’u 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. Laura 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, Lucian Littlefield, George Siogmanii, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor, all of whom interpret their parts with finished dramatic artistry.