“Trans-Atlantic Merry-Go-Round”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 14

“Trans-Atlantic Merry-Go-Round”

A PALATIAL ocean liner, plying between New York and Europe, and featuring an elaborate radio entertainment broadcast, from the high seas, is the scene of “Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round,” Reliance’s all-star comedydrama studded with’melody, mirth and mystery, which United Artists will release. Jack Benny, as master of ceremonies of the radio troupe, Nancy Carroll as Sally Marsh, his star, and Gene Raymond, as a young Raffles with a penchant for diamond bracelets, head the great cast of screen and radio favourites, which includes Sydney Howard, England’s leading comedian, Mitzi Green, in her first grown-up role, and Sid Silvers. A murder mystery develops in the midst of all the gaiety when a scoundrel, played by Sidney Blackmer, who has been annoying Sally, is found dead in her cabin. Suspicion falls on Sally, the young jewel thief who loves her, a married woman played by Shirley Grey, who had been infatulated with the dead man, her suspicious husband, played by Ralph Morgan, and several others, but the crime is not solved until a second murder is committed.