COSY THEATRE
“MEET NERO WOLFE.” Those who meet Nero Wolfe for the first time in film or fiction are amazed by the new technique introduced by Author Rex Stout in his delineation of the Wolfian detective doings. Unlike his prototypes, Sherlock Holmes, the keen-witted Philo Vance or the philosophical Charlie Chan, Nero Wolfe boasts none of the physical characteristics of the rule-book sleuth. He is fat, pudgy, lethargic and much too large; but a fascinating and eccentric figure. He rears through the most inscrutable mysteries with the complacent ease of a chess master at play, undisturbed in his ritual of huge meals and regular hours. He gathers his information through the offices of his chief stooge, Archie Goodwin, and by means of his super-psychology and admirable wit bares the essential facts in a simple picture of the actual crime. “Meet Nero Wolfe” will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. The perfect choice for the role of Nero Wolfe is manifest in the selection of Edward Arnold, who offered that memorable characterisation of Inspector Porfri in “Crime and Punishment.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 2
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179COSY THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 2
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