AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

fiVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“ THE CAT AND THE CANARY ” —WEDNESDAY.

' The Cat and tlie Canary,” tho Universal super mystery drama, starring Laura La Plante has been booked as a feature attraction by the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. As a stage play “The Cat and the Canary” was conceded to be one of the greatest mystery plays ever written, and, according to critics, tho film version is even more mysterious than the play. The plot hinges about a murder in an unoccupied country residence where six persons have gone at the hour of midnight to hear the reading of a will. Any one of tho main characters might be the murderer and suspicion falls on first one and then tho other. Tho logical though unusual ending is one that is impossible for the audience to foretell. The picture was directed by Paul Leni, noted European director, who was brought to America by Universal. The all-featured cast in addition to Miss La Plante embraces such known actors as Arthur Edmund Carcw, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Gertrude As tor, Flora Finch, George Siegmann, Tally Marshall and Martha Mattox. Doth playwright and scenarist are confronted with the problem of sustaining the clement of suspense of mystery in plays and films of tho type generally known ns mystery dramas. Tt requires broad knowledge of the laws of action and reaction, and in this the screen continuity writer has a slight advantage. When you see “ The Cat and the Canary ” at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday, you will have the opportunity of viewing one of the best examples of a play which withholds it: denouement until all hut tho last one hundred feet of film has been run off. A topical and comedy also will bo shown.