AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 27 August 1930, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. “THE GREENE MURDER CASE.” “The Greene Murder Case” was a great murder mystery story, but as a moving picture, commencing a threeday season, twice daily, at the Cosy Theatre to-day, it is even more gripping, more exciting. The plot turns on the strange killings which occur in the Greene family’s household. An elder son, his younger brother and then their mother succumb to the ■fiendish hand of an unknown murderer. William Powell, as Philo Vance, is called in on the case by his friend of a former murder mystery film (“The Canary Murder Case”), E. H. Calver, the district attorney. Working on the case with Powell is Eugene Pallette, the practical-minded and blundering comedy detective who was also one of the figures in “The Canary Murder Case.” After a series of uncanny and thrilling events, Powell solves the deep mystery with the suavity and 'super-intelligence that S. S. Van Dine wrote into this character in his novel®. Powell’s performance is flawless. If you like your thrills dished up with machine-gun rapidity, if 'you like entertainment that keeps your pulses tingling, don’t miss “The Greene Murder Case.” There is a good supporting programme. Patrons are advised to book and pay for their seats immediately at Vare’s. Otherwise the seats will not be held.

OPERA HOUSE. , “TRAILIN’ TROUBLE.” Universal’s latest all-talking Western picture comes to the Opera House for tonight and to-morrow night only. It is a thrilling and interesting picture with Hoot Gibson at his very best. He is the devil-may-care, hard-riding, trouble seeker—not that he actually seeks it, but it seems to come to him. He is supported by an oxcellent cast of favourites. There is >a good supporting programme of sound featurettes which includes a Universal Talking News, a British News (silent) and another of the popular Sporting Youth series in sound called “The Take-off.” The last item on the first half of the programme is another of 14he amusing “Collegians” series. These were good as silent films, but I the introduction of sound makes them | doubly interesting. This one, entitled “On the Side Lines,” is well up to the previous, high standard. Patrons are advised to book and pay for their seats at once at Vare’s music shop.