ST. JAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 936, 1 April 1930, Page 15

ST. JAMES

“THE ARGYLE CASE” COMING Only a few more days remain of the Auckland season of “The Desert Song,” which has delighted audiences at the St. James Theatre .for the last few weeks. Carlotta King and John Boles sing the leading roles. “The Argyle Case” comes to the St. James on Saturday. In this enthralling mystery story, Thomas Meighan appears as a master detective, au fait with all the wiles of the criminal classes, keenly following up every clue, and at last laying the murderer by the heels. The problem he sets himself to solve is: Who killed the noted millionaire, John Argyle, as he tried to telephone the police for protection? And an additional problem for the audience is: Why is a beautiful suspect spirited away while both Press and public clamour for her conviction? The evidence and the clues surrounding the death of John Argyle present a most tangled skein, the unravelling of which seems well nigh an absolute impossibility. Complications follow one another thick and fast, and it is probable that no more exciting murder story than “The Argyle Case” has ever been filmed. But the greatest of criminal investigators addresses himself to his task with grim determination. Step by step, by deductive reasoning and using the most up-to-date scientific methods, he unravels the mystery and brings the crime home to the murderer. As the dead man’s daughter, Leila Lee makes a most charming heroine, and it is not to be wondered at that, even though she herself falls under the suspicion of the great detective, she succeeds in winning her way into his heart, that her name is cleared, and all ends well. Other prominent parts are ably sustained by H. B. Warner, Bert Roach, Zasu Pitts, and John Barrow.