COMEDY AND MYSTERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 3

COMEDY AND MYSTERY

“FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS.”

Combining a unique and baffling plot with all the fast action and clever comedy of its predecessors, “Forty Naughty Girls,” which opens at the Plaza Theatre next Tuesday with "Music For Madam”—carries on the adventures of those noted sleuths, Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegarde Withers, in a high-speed thriller. The new RKO-Radio picture deals with a mysterious double murder backstage in a Broadway theatre during the performance of a popular revue. While the cigar-chewing Oscar and his school marm aide are trying to solve the first killing, the second one takes place right on the stage, before a thousand spectators, and the story plunges into dizzy complications of motives and suspects before it reaches its surprise ending. James Gleason and Zasu Pitts have the roles of the two ■ Stuart Palmer characters, Gleason enacting the inspector for the sixth time and Miss Pitts portraying Hildegarde for the second time. Marjorie Lord and George Shelley have the romantic leads as a pair of juvenile players in the revue.

“Nothing Sacred.” Carole Lombard and Fredric March will appear as the principal players in David O. Selznick’s sensational Technicolour comedy, “Nothing Sacred,” a saga of New York. . It has been produced in the manner in which Selznick made “A Star is Born,” a saga of Hollywood. A Talented Son. Geoffrey Nares, the talented son of Owen Nares, well-known London actor, is not only a promising actor but has a definite flair for designing scenery and settings. He not only played in the Globe production of “Blondie White,” a new kind of crime play, but he also designed the scenery. Others in the cast were Basil Sydney, Joan Marion. Elliot Mason, and Ernest Jay.