AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. 1 TO-NIGHT AND FRIDAY. “FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS.*’ A baffling murder in a big Broadway theatre, coloured with : blackmailing plots and complicated with an embarrassing wealth ot suspects and motives, form s the basis of “Forty Naughty Girls,” current thriller at the Regent Theatre, featuring Janies Gleason and Zasu Pitts in the roles of those noted detectives, Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegarde Withers/ With the crooked Agent of the show as th‘e : victim ‘of 1 Lhh‘'kfl'ftng, : which takes pla'c6 1 back- ' stage l, ‘ffurd , hlg' "the' perforhiaffce” 1 j the 1 stdfy ; 'lj(ll i^*ly” b’ccomos involved ' with a r cf6?.en’ possible suspects, all of whom had plenty of reason to have commuted the crime. The two sleuths have their hands full trying to solve the riddle. A second murder, and a spinechilling search, for the killer through j the dim recesses of the theatre basement add to the thrills «f the RKO Radio offering which marks Gleason’s sixth portrayal of the Inspector role and Miss Pitts’ second playing of the j Hildegarde part. Marjorie Lord George j Shelley, Joan ‘Woodbury, Edward Marr, I Frank M, Thomas, Tom Kennedy, ) Alden Chase and Alan Edwards, are in the supporting cast. / i. ’ ' • '