Crime Club Novel Base of New Mystery

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Crime Club Novel Base of New Mystery

“LOVE LETTERS OF A STAR” (Kosy: Screening Saturday). “Love Letters of a Star” is an exciting mystery that does not reveal tne person v;ho commits the crime until the last sequence of the picture. The action flows rapidly, the suspense keeps mounting and the drama fairly crackles with intensity. The narrative is made sprightly with a sufficient mending of romance and passages of humour. The story reveals the thrilling incidents in the lives oi a family that is hounded by a blackmailer. The net which enmeshes them becomes more entangled when the family is suspected of murdering tho man, who comes to his end undei strange circumstances. Then another victim meets his fate in an unusual wanner. A keen detective, portrayed., by C. Henry Gordon, unravels the double mystery with methods that help to make interesting screen entertainment. An excellent performance is given by Henry Hunter, as tho suspected husband of the girl who is tho extortioner’s prey. That role is enacted by Mary Alice Rice, renowned as a beauty of the last show staged by Ziegield. Her sister iu the movie is Polly Bowles, an attractive young actress with marked ability, who plays tender love scenes with Walter Coy and powerful dramatic sequences with Ralph Forbes. Samuel Hinds and Alma Kruger are the screen rather and mother. The blackmailer is made convincing by j Kollo Lloyd. Hobart Cavanaugh has tho role of a busybody who calls the police. Readers of Crime Club novels will find many points of interesting comparison between the film, “Love Letters of a Star,” aud Rufus King’s stirring book from which it was taken, ‘ ‘Case of tho Constant God.”