PLAZA THEATRE
I “GREAT HOSPITAL MYSTERY* I The chlllingest, 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, screens to-day. In this bewildering sleuth yarn with a super- • surprise climax, directed by James Tinling and based on a story by Mignon Eberhardt, the suspense-provok-ing accusing linger of gilt pointed variously to Jane Darwcll, 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 shriek 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 Merodyth, 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. “Charlie Chan at the Olympics” Charlie Chan is as impterturbable and as cunning as ever in “Charlie Chan at the Olympics,” the film which commences on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. The appeal of this series—the present offering is the thirteenth about Chan’s adventures in sleuthing —shows no sign of waning, and as long aS the standard of the film now showing is maintained, the series should easily hold the interest ol those who admire the urbane Chinese detective, with his strangely-contrast-ing methods of logical deduction.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 9
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