Screen Sleuthing at Its Best

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 291, 9 December 1936, Page 11

Screen Sleuthing at Its Best

"MURDER ON A BRIDLE PATH” CONVINCING

(Kosy: Screening Saturday)

A mystery yam displaying screen sleuthing at its cleverest is ‘‘Murder on a Bridie Path,” latest case of Stuart Palmers’ popular fictional detective team, Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegarde Withers., dames Gleason and Helen Broderick in the co-feature roles of this RKO Radio picture have their cunning and courage taxed to the utmost in investigating twin-murders that appear at first to be normal, accidental deaths.

From such strange and slender evidence as a BB shot in a horse’s flank, the wrinkled corners of a bed sheet, a man’s dream that he was a pendulum, does Miss Withers conclude that a lovely artist’s model apparently trampled to death by a horse and a man seemingly dead by a stroke are actually victims of an artful killer. And those conclusions pitch the acute Miss Withers and her fast-talking hardboiled companion into adventures which for novelty and comedy are reported to be even more entertaining than ‘‘The Penguin Pool Murder,’’ ‘‘Murder on tho Blackboard” and ‘‘Murder on a Honeymoon. ’' Helen Broderick, as Miss Withers, replaces Edna May Oliver who played opposite Gleason in

the earlier mysteries. Youthful romance threatened by suspicion of murder guilt is supplied by Louise Latimer and Owen Davis, Jnr. They are joined in the supporting east by Leslie Fenton, John Arledge, Christian Eub, John Carroll, Willie Best and Sheila Terry.