PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

I ‘THE GREAT HOTEL MURDER.” I Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglqn, i 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 set out to unravel. The newest Fox Film comedy-drama, “The Great Hotel Murder,” which opens at the Plaza Theatre to-day, is thrill-packed and ehockful 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 do luxe hotel where the sinister crime occurs. The combination is grand. The sleuths agree there is a mysterious case for their attention, but on nil other details they disagree. With its mystery that bailies, its adventure that thrills, and its mirth that delights, “The Great Hotel Murder” is warmly recommended for its unusual entertainment. Fine performances are rendered by the entire cast, which includes Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle. Henry O’Neil], C. Hendry Gordon, William Janney, Charles O. 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 coiisunimately. Tic reveals himself a master of comedy values, never forgetting in the humour the sinister side of . l ’ n ' V , Stery ' “ Th ° Great Hotel Murder, ’ a John Stone production., is < \PJ ctli l' e __ f>f bounce and viralitv.