PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“THE MAN IN THE MIRROR’’ Edward Everett Horton has one of the best parts in his career in the latest piece of delicious fooling, "The Man in the Mirror,” which will be shown finally at the Plaza Theatre tonight. In "The Man in the Mirror,’’ Genevieve Tobin plays opposite Edward Everett Horton as his wife, who bullies him until Mr. Horton's better self—his reflection—steps from the mirror and does a bit of bullying himself! “Who would shoot a man already dead?” is the puzzle oattiii.g police and investigators m ‘The Great Hospital Mystery,” Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox thriller with comic overtones, which is on the same programme. Jane Darwell heads tie erst which includes Sig Rumaim, Sally Blane, Thomas Beck and Joan Davis. “Charlie Chan at the Olympics” Warner Gland plays Charlie Chan for the fifteenth consecutive time in “Charlie Chan at the Olympics," which is coming to the Plaza Theatre to-morrow. The philosophical Chinese detective, the screen’s most popular series character, takes the longest odds of his career in solving this puzzle of murder and international spies. With much of its action t.’.King place at the Olympic Games, tne film has an unusual background. Some of the shots show races in which J. E. Lovelock, the New Zealand runner, and Jesse Owens, the American, competed. Pitted against the most appalling odds of his career, Charlie sets a new world's record for th-ills before a stadium jammed with cneering sport fans. He defies the murderous threats of a death-dealing ring of international spies who strike teiror into the Oly-np’c sports arena, and who strike at Chan himse’.x through his “number one” son (Keye Luke) in their bold efforts to seize a secret radio-control device fro n the government. To save his son, Chan follows the flee* >g thins es to Europe, overlaking the r ship, which is also carrying teams to rhe Olympic Ga nee, by t) ans-Atlantic Zeppelin.