MAJESTIC TO-NIGHT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 63, 5 November 1931, Page 4

MAJESTIC TO-NIGHT

An immensely vivid and entertaining picture is "Subway Express," Columbia's screen version of the New York stage success, which opens at the Majestic Theatre to-night. Aside from the human interest element contributed by thirty highly realistic and diverse characters who are subway passengers, there's a mystery that fairly takes the edge off anything. that even A. Conan Doyle ever concoeted. "Subway Express" has a unique, well-motived plot and is rieh in humour because of the clashes of the oddly contrasted passengers who make up the personnel of the subway coach. These passengers elbow each other and are lurched and jerked realistically by the speeding strain. A quarrel develops between a broker and some inebriates, who bump against him and members of his party. There is a struggle and a shot, after which a murdered man is discovered sitting stiffiy in a seat. Jack Holt plays the inspector with convincing realism. Aileen Pringle enlists sympathy as Dale Tracy, and Jason Robards makes the broker, Bordon, a iikeable young New Yorker. Fred Kelsey, William Humphrey and Ethel Wales score in character roles. Direetor Fred Newmeyer deserves much credit for his splendid work in transferring this difficult play to the screen.