CHARLIE McCARTHY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 3

CHARLIE McCARTHY

DETECTIVE IN LATEST FILM Chips, sawdust and splinters flew at Universal Studios when Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy tangled in a battle of barbed wit during the production cf " Charlie McCarthy, Detective,” which will be screened at the Empire Theatre to-morrow. Mortimer says he lives on a farm where, by his own description * he is the “ chief squirt ” in a dairy. Strictly bucolic in appearance and manner. Mortimer sports a mail-order suit, celluloid collar, brass collar button and a dickey. He has red hair, slightly crossed eyes, very buck teeth, a receding chin and a prominent Adam’s apple. He made his first screen appearance in '• Letter of Introduction,” and repeated in “ You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” and has been heard over the radio. McCarthy has always resented Mortimer’s intrusion into what he considers his exclusive fields the screen and the radio. He snorts with indignation and disgust when Mortimer’s name is mentioned. “ What’s this country coming to when a Snerd is allowed to work with us artists? ” he demands to know. Charlie McCarthy will be seen as a crime-solving sleuth in “ Charlie McCarthy. Detective.” Charlie unravels the mystery surrounding a baffling society murder when he, with Edgar Bergen, Mortimer Snerd and the balance of the cast are drawn into the affair. In the principal supporting roles will be seen Robert Cummings, Constance Moore, John Sutton, Louis Calhern. Edgar Kennedy. Harold Huber, Samuel S. Hinds and Warren Hymer