GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT Bebe Daniels appeared at the Grand Theatre last night in a daring role in "The Maltese Falcon," a mysterious melo-drama which is an adaptation of the famous novel by Dashiell Hammett, who was for years a Pinkerton deteetive, and is therefore able to speak with authority, not only of the pursuer but the pursued. Miss Daniels is vividly effective as Miss Wonderly, the strange and alluiing adventuress, who keeps not only the characters in the play, but audiences as well, guessing whethsr she is the leader of the weird crime ring, or the sinned-against victim of eircumstances. The doubtful heroine conquers all the men she meets except the one man who inteiests her — tho head of a deteetive agency, who, while mistrusting her motives, feels the fascination of her personality. Ricardo Cortez portrays the man in question, transforming the unsympathetic role into a forceful and believahle one. Dudley Digges, famous in so many Theatre Guild performances, is effective as Gutman, a master mind. Robert Elliott is again a deteetive but with a difference. Una Merkel and lovely Thelma Todd are the only women in the cast beside Miss Daniels.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 March 1932, Page 2
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