COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 9

COSY THEATRE

"THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR." Apart from its fascinating mystery, the screen drama which screens at the Cosy Theatre to-night. "The Thirteenth Chair," is one of the best examples of the new Hollywool technique yet to reacli the screen. The picture was filmed largely in shadows, which adds to its element of mystery and its photographic splendour. The story is an adaptation of the remembered stage succees by Bayard Veiller and .with the greater resources of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, it becomes even more interesting. Thirteen people are seated in a room where a seance is in progress, arranged by one of them, who hopes to find the murderer of his close friend. In the darlmess, he himself is killed by a knifr wound. No one enters er leavcs the room and yet no knife is there. The locale of the gripping drama is in India, with an inexplicable murder committed when 13 people are 6itting around a table in the dark holding hands during a seance. Althougli the local police are baffled. the medium takes a hand and employing her knowledge of mysticism and psychology, brings the culprit tp justice. M.G.M. has assembled a remarkably fine cast, all featured players, and the' able Georgc Seitz directed, The cast

includes Dame May Whitty, who scored an outstanding triumph in. "Night Must Fall,'» Madge Etansf Lewis Stone and Elissa Landi,