“Midnight Mystery” and “Lawful Larceny”

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6520, 8 April 1931, Page 5

“Midnight Mystery” and “Lawful Larceny”

Something new in the way of mystery melodrama arrives on tho talking screen I of the Kosy Theatre next Wcdnesay with “Lawful Larceny” with the presentation of “Midnight Mystery, the new Badio Picture production featuring Betty Compson and Lowell Sherman. Here is a thriller with a punch of novelty that makes it doubly interesting. Splendid, playing by a star cast, smooth direction, and a story that builds to stirring climaxes make “Midnight Mystery” an evening s genuine entertainment. The story has been adapted from the stage success, “Hawk Island,” and is concerned with an oddly-assorted set ot guests .at a house party in a castle on a-storm-beaten island oil the Maine •Every bit of action in the film is encompassed within less than a twelvehour period) with the major part of the story running through a night of electrifying adventure. Based on the “murder” of a dummy” which later proves to be more tragically real than the joker supposed, the picture offers the novel angle of letting the audience in on the secret before the characters themselves suspect what has transpired.