ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 63, 3 August 1914, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

■"lillC ARGI'LE CASE." Most pooplc like a mystery. That is •hy "The Argyle Case,' 'wliich will be picSented at the Theatre Royal by the J. C. Vi iliiainson Cu. to-morrow, appeals. The unravelling of a murder keeps the audience at tension point for three hours, and so carefully is the secret kept thai it is only in the last few minutes that the mystery is solved. John Argyh; lias been secretly murdered in his own borne. The police have been baffled for days, and "Never Sleep Kayton," ihead of the Kayton Detective Agency, is called in. lie iias all Hie latest'equipment for sheeting homo crimes, and the audience is confronted with every problem ihat presents itself to the detective. All the members of, tin; household have their finger-prints taken, but none correspond with those found on the table near the murdered num. A cleverly "planted" advertisement is successful in bringing a certain woman to the oltiee. Kayton tricks er into getting her lingers covered with ink and then blotting them on a special | paper. Due sees this" done on the singe. The linger-prints secured, the detective having used his cross-examination of the woman to go good ell'ect, iollows up tiie clue. A dictograph is placed in the house of v. suspect, and one gets an idea mow convictions can be made easy. A gang of counterfeiters is tracked by this method. The woman is the wife of the head of the gang (Dr. Kreislcrj who shoots himself when theii plant is discovered. Tire woman, who happens to be the mother of John Argyle's daughter, upon whom suspicion has fallen, knows who committed the murder, and nly after various complications is it re aled that the murdered man is his legal adviser, who,was tr\ing to interest himself in the counterfeiting scheme, was the real murderer. Love and laughter lighten the tragic tensity. "Nevtr Sleep" Kayton has awakened to one call and falls in love with Mary Masuret, Argyle's adopted daughter, whose innocence he has himself set out to prove. The play is interpreted by a strong cast, and the box plan is now open at Collier's.