PRINCESS THEATRE

Inangahua Times, 28 September 1938, Page 2

PRINCESS THEATRE

TOMORROW WEDNESDAY NIGHT FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS Inspector Oscar Pipes, the cocky, cigar-cbewing po'ice detective, and Hildegarde Withers, his inquisitive scboolmarm assistant, return to the screen to track down another murderer in tbeir usual hilarious f-tchion in " Forty Naughty Girls.’’ James Gleason again oortravs .he In*ptcio.'s role, as in the five preceding p'Ctures of the series, and Z-«su Puts, who played Hildegarde in ** The Plot Thickens,” once more turns to the task of correcting Gleason’s errors. The mystery in this thriller picture begins when the press agent of a big Broadway revue is found murdered in odp of ihe girl’s dressing rooms during a performance. Oscar and Hildegarde are in the audience, and quickly set about ro unravel the puzr-e, on y to encounter an embarrassing number of clues—particularly as nearly every member of the company appears to have had good reason to end the press ag-n. s career. The recently developed ** nitrate test, ’ which revta’s ■*hr hpr or not anyone person has fi ed a gun within 24 hours, soon el mma < s many of the possible killers, bu' his makes things more complicated And the complications pde up in siaege'ing fashion with ihe most likely suspect of the group also meeting a mysterious death before the enure theatre audience. The indefatigable Oscar and the intuitive Hildegarde solve the riddle in the course of a krgblv suspenseful adventure. The two principals 'urn in splendid pe - formaoces. The lovely Marjorie Lord and G > e Sh a !l»v handle the romaniic le .d- m =p •gh'lv fashion.