PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 242, 12 October 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“GREAT HOSPITAL MYSTERY* The chillingest, thrillingest, laughingest, most mysterious clue hunt that ever baffled a breathless audience, as an unseen terror stalks the white corridors of a mad-house hospital only to have a nitwit night nurse turn his mystery into hilarity comes to the Plaza Theatre when “The Great Hospital Mystery," Twentieth CenturyFox picture, opens to-day. In this bewildering sleuth yarn with a supersurprise ciimax, directed by Jamea Tinling and based on a story by non Eberhardt, the suspense-provok-ing accusing finger of gilt pointed variously to Jane Darwell, the grimvisaged head nurse who stood for no nonsense, but got plenty; to Sig Rumann, the gimlet-eyed "sawbones” whose sinister countenance haunts his patients’ dreams; to Sally Blane, pretty nurse who behaves in a most un-nurse-like manner; to Thomas Beck, the handsome young doctor who might do anything for the girl he loves, and to Joan Davis, the scatterbrained night nurse with a shrief like an ambulance siren. The madcap

climax straightens out, to everyone's surprise, a most involved and baffling situation, the solution to which had even the authors of the screen play, Bess Meredyth, William Conselman and Jerry Cady, worried for a long time. A startling original and highly amusing film is released by G-B-D on the same programme, “The Man in the Mirror,” starring Edward Everett Horton and Genevieve Tobin. The story of Jeremy Dilke and his unhappy, hen-pecked adventures would be all too familiar if it weren't for the astonishing appearance of his own reflection, who steps from a mirror to assume command of the poor sap's affairs. The results are hilarious. Smart dialogue carries the fast-mov-ing scenes to an unbelievably rapid tempo of entertainment.