PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 206, 3 September 1935, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT.’’ Warner Oland, who created the photoplay character of Charlie Chan and brought him to his present popularity with filmgoers, appears ou the current programme at the Plaza Theatre in the Fox picture “Charlie Chan in Egypt.” The famous Oriental detective finds congenial soil in that land of ancient curses. He grapples with death and mystery to unravel the tangled threads of theft from a 300(1-year-old tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and comes through without a stain on his professional reputation as the investigator no criminal has ever outwitted. How he pins murder and robbery to almost the last man the audience would dream of suspecting is one of his greatest triumphs. In this picture is Pat Patterson, a screen actress bound to achieve great popularity. As Warner Gland’s leading! lady in an all-star cast she is quite up to her task. Stcphin Fctchit, that artist in negro faint-heartedness, sup plies a counterpoise of humour. . “Doubting Thomas.” Strike up the laughs for Will Rogers’ new fun cyclone, “.Doubting Thomas,” which opens to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre. You’ll hold your sides as Will tries to hold his wife in this rib-rocking story about a thunder struck husband and a stage struck -wife which was adapted from George Kell y’s stage hit, “The Torch Bearers.” Re ports from other cities have audiences’ rolling in the aisles of the theatre at Kogers’ new wisecracks in the role of a simple, home-loving sausage mtrtu facturer, whose calm world is tossed into a turmoil when his wife, Billie Burke, goes theatrical. She appears in an amateur charity show and if the audiences hold on to their scats, it will be more than those in other cities have been able to do. You'll laugh your full when Billie Burke, under the influence of Alison Skipworth, who plays an amateur impressairo, wants to make a career of the stage until Rogers finally effects a cure by hiring a bogus Hollywood director to tell her the amateur group what he things of their screen tests, after which Will sur-

prises everyone with a sequence whicFi can be chalked down as one of the highlights of all Rogers’ films. B. S. de Sylvia produced “Doubting Thomas” for Fox Film. It was directed by David Butler and besides the late Mr. Rogers, Billie Burke and Alison Skipworth, has an outstanding cast, including Sterling Holloway, Gail Patrick, Frances Grant, Frank Albertson, [John Qualen, Johnny Arthur, Helen Flint, Fred Wallace, T. Roy Barnes, Ruth Warren, George Cooper. Helen Freeman and William Benedict. The specially-selected supporting programme is comprised of a number of excellent Plaza featurettes.