THE NIGHTCLUB LADY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 596, 29 July 1933, Page 2

THE NIGHTCLUB LADY

INTERESTING STORY OF CRIME COMING TO THE MAJESTIC. ADOLPHE MENJOU STARS. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933. Not since S. S. Van Dine created his ingenious detective character of fiction, Philo Vance, has there been so popular a crime solver in the printed pages : as Rhatcher Colt, the literary creation of Anthony Ahbot. And now, like all good things of contemporary literature, this amazing sleuth, Thatcher Colt, is brought to the motion picture screen by the debonair Adolphe Menjou, in a picture, "The Night Club Lady," which opens at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, August 5. The role of the suave Thatcher Colt is declared to have been made to order for the talent of Menjou. Thatcher Colt is a unique character among all the Sherlock Holmes, Philo Vances, Arsene Lupins, Chaig Kennedys and all the rest of the master minds of crime who have become literary landmarks in the field of detective fiction. Where most of these brilliant figures have ridiculed the eiforts of the stupid police detectives, Thatcher Colt is himself not only a policeman, but a police commissioner, a man of splendid social baclcground, wealthy, polished, handsome and shrewd. He solves th'e most baffling crimes by the exercise of what he ealls "common sense" but which is really the hei'ght of ingenuity, bolstered by application of the latest developments of modern science. How Menjou, playing the role of Thatcher Colt in "The Night Club Lady," solves a chain of murders, makes one of the most absorbing pic. tures of the kind ever to reach the screen. Irving Cummings, who made "Attorney for the Defence," "In Old Arizona" and other popular pictures, directed. Lola Carewe, the night club lady, is played by Mayo Methot, a glarqorous blonde newcomer from the Broadway stage, Skeets Gallagher, Ruthelma Stevens, Blanche Friderici, Nat Pendleton, Niles Welch and ' Gerald Fielding play supporting roles. .1