COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

TWO FEATURE PROGRAMME. “The Accusing Finger” and “The Big Broadcast of 1937,” will be shown finally at the Cosy Theatre tonight. TOMORROW’S ATTRACTIONS. The most seasoned follower of the adventures of screen sleuths will get a real thrill out ’of Monogram’s “Mr Wong, Detective,” which comes to the Cosy Theatre tomorrow, for not only is it a clever mystery drama, full of action and suspense, but it serves to introduce a new screen detective in the person of that ex-horror man and master of eerie characterisation, Boris Karloff. For this first in a series of mystery films, based on the popular Hugh Wiley stories, Karloff dons the celestial raiment of James Lee Wong, a hero well known to magazine readers. Wong, educated at Oxford and scientifically schooled in crime detecting, begins his career by unravelling a triple murder that baffles San Francisco’s police. Three partners of the Dayton Chemical Company are killed, each alone in a room which has no access. Wong is called in to help solve the crime and work with his friend, Captain Street, of the San Francisco Police Department. The associate attraction, “Last Express,” is based on Baynard Kendrick’s best-selling Crime Club novel. The film is colourfully enacted by a cast that includes Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent. Don Brodie, Greta Granstedt, Paul Hurst, J. Farrell MacDonald and Shaw and Lee. Two baffling murder mysteries, in which a dozen suspects are implicated, are presented for solution by Duncan Mac Lain, a new and romantic detective character brought to the screen by Taylor. Kendrick’s ingenious mystery story teams Taylor and Brodie as a pair of sleuths who are first pressed into service by a menacing gangster chief. When a murder takes place, lhe two detectives are assigned to the case by the District Attorney and from then on until the amazing solution they are hampered on both sides of the law.