LIBERTY THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 7

LIBERTY THEATRE.

"MURDER WILL OUT" AND "DANCING SWEETIES."

Breathless momenta while the appointed hours of death arrive, forewarning* pinned to pagoda posts with blood-stained daggers, swift-working Oriental poisons and everywhere the mysterious consistent messages of the purple hieroglyph—these'; are a few i the ingredients of ''Murder Will Out." ithe first-class mystery :dran»l» which opens to-day at the: Liberty in conjunction with ' 'Dancing W T^lly S Marshall. Claud Allister <of Live Ghosts" fame). Nosh Beery, .Jack -Mulhall, and Lila Lpej.Jire, the , principals . of "Murder Will Out,"'.a tale which tells of .Chinese blackmail ■ and the lengths .to which the,members of^this -gang, will jg;o,_to.-rum, financially the wealthy young Leonard- Staun- ' ton.. Leonard ,is -engaged to Jeanne < Baldr, win r and tit is from - tho Baldwin home on Long ' Island thatwi Staunton'-receiver the caH which first brings him. into close contact ,with tho .purple hieroglyph. He 'Speeds through a heavy thunderstorm to sit with Al&n Pit/hugh, destined to death at midnight ■ by 'Chinese . hands. Fitshugh screams ;\out his life-in a taxi after bidding Staunton- goodnight, and'then follows quickly the poisoning of Dr. Mansfield, an authority on Chinese . curios, and the stabbing of Lieutenant Con- | don, in the Baldwin pag9da at the ghostly morning hour of two. Jeanne is at her wits' end .to save Leonard,' who is, faced with the payment of 600,000 dollars to the gang or the death of his fiancee. The rendezvous is the last buoy in New York - harbour, and on a heaving swell far, from the city the young stockbroker and his blackmailers meet for the final; reckoning. And then - there- is 'the strangest denouement for* the -excited audience —startling, novel, and. Jttot- devoid of humour. „ ; Grant Withers and Sue Carol head the: cast of "Dancinpr Sweeties," the-Warner Bros, first,, National production, which epitomises the youth of to-day—'the jaw-mad irresponsible, oarefree boys and girls of 1930.