WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 192, 31 August 1937, Page 10

WAIPAWA REGENT

'"THE PLOT THICKENS" — ON WEDNESDAY Eevolving about the activities of an international gang of jcwel thieves and two mysterious and seeminglv unrelated murders, EKO-Eadio's "The Plot Thickens," showing at the Waipawa Kegent Theatre on Wednesday, oQ'ers considerably more suspense and complication than its predecessors in the popular Inspector Piper-Hildegard e Withers series of Stuart Palmer com-edy-mysteries. The new oifering again presents James Gleason as the redoubtable Inspector, but has a new "Hildegarde" in the person of Zasu Pitts, whose fluttery style of mirth-making adds greatly to the laughter of the film, Seroen fans will recall that Edna May Oliver and Helen Broderick severally enacted Gleason 's unofficial assistant in the earlier pietures of the series. Due to ingenious weaving of tlie plot, the deaths of a wealtliy collector and a museum guard, seem to offer no clues to the police, nor is there apparently any connection between them and the disappcarance of the famous Cellini Cup from its ease in the museum. But Hildegarde's curiosity, and the cnergetic, if often mistaken, actions of the inspector, finally bring to light the uii der lying motives of an ciganiftcd gang of crooks wh aro responsibJe for both killing#.