PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

■•D'YE KEN JOHN PEEL?” ‘‘D'ye Ken John Peel?’’ the P»rilish Dominions release, which is showing finally to-night at Ike Plaza Theatre, is distinguished by a particularly strong all-British cast. This is headed by John Garrick, the leading man'of “ Lily of ” and “The Broken Melody,” and A'inifred Shotter, tie keroine of so many Aldwyclt farces. John Stuart, the popular Bri’i.-h actor, plays the important role of Captain Moonlight, an attractive highwayman, who saves the hero’s life but relieves a number of rich peonlo of their jewels and money. The remainder of the cast consists of Morris Harvey, Mary Lawson, Pat Noonan, Charles Carson, Wilfred Caithness, and Stanley Holloway. Private Samuel Small, the Waterloo foot-soldier who refused to pick up his musket until persuaded to do so by the Duke of Wellington, is also in the cast. “The Great Hotel Murder” Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen, who have added to the gaiety of the nations with their screen antics, are at it again, this time as rival mystery sleuths, who get into each other’s hair, and who find each other more baffling than the murder mystery which they Bet out to unravel. The newest Fox Film comedy-drama, ‘‘The Great Hotel Murder,” which opens at the Plaza Theatre to-morrow, is thrill-packed and chockful of mirth—a rare combination for a mystery thriller. It’s a merry, mad adventure they start on, McLaglen as a house detective with plenty of brawn, and Lowe as a mystery writer with a logical brain. Rosemary Ames holds the key to the mystery they set out to solve in the de luxe hotel where the sinister crime occurs. The combination is grand. The sleuths agree there is a mysterious case for their attention, but on all other details they disagree. With its mystery that, baffles, its adventure that thrills, aud its mirth that delights, “The Great Hotel Murder” is warmly recommended for its unusual entertainment. Fine performances arc rendered by the entire cast, which includes Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle, Henry O'Neill, C. Hendry Gordon, William Janney, Charles C. Wilson, John Wray, John Qualen, Herman Bing, Madge Bellamy, Robert Gleckler and Clarence H. Wilson. Eugene Forde, the director, certainly has a flair for this type of mystery, and injects humour into mystery consummately. Tie reveals himself a master of comedy values, never forgetting in the humour the sinister side of the mystery. “The Great Hotel Murder,” a John Stone production, m a picture of bounce and virality.