PITTS-GLEASON FILM

Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 20

PITTS-GLEASON FILM

INGENIOUS ROBBERY PLOT i \ Stealing a valuable art treasure from a .modern museum is a difficult task. It is even more difficult when guards and custodians are close at hand, and when the glass case enclosing the object is so wired that breaking of the 'glass will set off alarms and automatically lock doors. A robbery under such conditions seems.impossible, yet just sucb an affair forms one of the exciting moments of BKO Radio’s new detective thriller, ‘ The Plot Thickens,’ coming on Wednesday to the Grand. The famous Cellini Cur. believed to he.the only authentic relic of Benvenuto Cellini’s work in America, and now kept in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City i is the art treasure which in the film is supposed to be the objecr tive of a clever gang of international crooks. Only the detective ability of James Gleason and ZaSu Pitts, who are featured, brings the story to a satisfactory conclusion after the criminals’ plan seems to have succeeded. The picture is the fifth of a series of detective adventures of Stuart Palmer’s noted characters. Inspect©! - Oscar Piper and Hildegarde Withers, and was directed by Ben Holmes. Louise Latimer and Owen Davis, iun., play the romantic leads.