THRILLING MURDER STORY

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 8

THRILLING MURDER STORY

s STAR OF MIDNIGHT’ AT STATE Romance and melodrama form an intriguing combination in ‘ Star of Midnight,’ which opened at the State this afternoon. Telling a .strikingly different type of love story,, in which the delectable “.Ginger” Rogers,’ fresh from triumphs in the musical / Roberta,’ is the pursuer and William 'Powell the ostensibly wary quarry, the picture deals with a baffling mystery in modern New York’s pageant and glitter. He is light and gay and insouciant. He plays about with “Ginger” Rogers, ho takes murder; very calmly, he meets the police casually, although be admits that the officer in charge, played by J. Farrell MacDonald, is no fool. And he tantalises the audience, Certainly he takes you with him on his investigations, but you are not much wiser at the end of vour travels. He is the one man on' the Hollywood screen for these roles and through the years he has held his places without any real challenge. A beautiful woman disappears as though swallowed by the earth. A newspaper columnist is killed under weird circumstances. Suspicion points in half a dozen directions, including the suave Mr Powell’s own, and clues are scarcer than suspects. In this situation, Powell and Miss Rogers swing into actiou, and things begin to happen even more rapidly/ In addition to the romance, thrills, and mystery, there is a strong current of comedy in the pursuing of Powell by “ Ginger.” There are Paul Kelly’s racketeer, Ralph Morgan’s Mr Classen, and Russell Hopton’s Tommy Tennant—all first rate.