Young Sherlock

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 25

Young Sherlock

QUAINT COMEDY TALKIE “The Ghost Talks” for Majestic AC*) l" AI XT comedy, packed with laughter and spiced with a few genuine thrills is “The Ghost Talks,” a Fox .Movietone production for the Majestic. This film serves to introduce at the head of a strongeast Charles Faton. one of the most promising of the screen's younger comedians. Previously a stage player, he is counted among America's foremost juvenile leads.

Few films have managed to embrace the high percentage of fast, wholesome comedy that is found in “The Ghost Talks.” A human little story of a young mail’s efforts at crime detection is treated in a screamingly funny way and the action is strengthened with a new type of ghostly thrills.

At the head of the supporting cast is Helen Twelvetrees, a well-known Broadway actress, who appeared successfully in such ! plays as “An American Tragedy,” “Elmer Gantry,” “Broadway,” and others.

Charles Eaton’s legitimate stage successes include “Skidding,” “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” “The Blue Bird,” “Peter Pan,” and many others. Carmel Myers, who plays an important part in ‘‘The Ghost Talks,” will be remembered as one of the leads in the film, “Ben-Hur,” and “Four Walls.” Then there are such talkie favourites as Stepin Fetchit, Earle Foxe, Baby Mack and Dorothy McGowan. Eaton is introduced as an hotel clerk whose passion is crime detection. While he is explaining to his friends the qualities that go to the making of

, super detective, strange events begin o take place. A first-class mystery develops in the lotel and the clerk’s efforts to solve he mystery are productive of endless aught er. A terrified negro bridegroom, a jbost that Avails eerily in the gloomy corners of the building, and a mac •base through secret panels and pas sages are only a few of the high iglits that place this comedy in t listinctly attractive class. Throughout. “The Ghost Talks” is 0 Tear, full talkie, while the sounc effects are equally complete and real stic. Right to the very last foot 0.1 ilni the laughs continue, and one’s >nly regret is that this delicious gloom chaser cannot be expanded <0 twice ts actual length.