COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“WEST OF SHANGHAI.”

“West of Shanghai,” will be finally shown at the Cosy Theatre tonight. “MURDER BY AN ARISTOCRAT.” A new and baffling mystery melodrama, “Murder by an Aristocrat,” comes to the Cosy Theatre tomorrow night, with Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill and Claire Dodd in the leading roles. Produced from the exciting novel by Mignon G. Eberhart, the picture is said to be packed with thrilling situations, eerie and blood curdling episodes that make the hair stand on end. Five members of a proud, aristocratic family are being blackmailed by a- black sheep ne-er- . do-well, who later is found with a bullet through his heart in the library home. Another member of the family is found dead in the attic, evidently a victim of a poisonous drug. The others of the family are suspected as also are the butler and two maids. To complicate matters, however, the aged spinster, head of the family, declares that a string of costly emeralds has been stolen, and the district attorney, also a relative, tries to make out a case of murder for the purpose of robbery, in order to save his skin from scandal. Lyle Talbot and Miss Churchill play the roles of doctor and nurse, who are in love with each other. Claire Dodd has the role of a member of the family who, though married, carries on a clandestine love affair with her husband’s cousin, a part played by John Eldredge. Other members are Virginia Brissac, William Davidson, Gordon Elliott, Joseph Crehan and Florence Fair. Stuart Holmes is the butler and Lottie Williams and Mary Treen the two maids. The chief supporting picture is “The Big Noise,” an excellent comedy drama, starring Guy Kibbee supported by Warren Hill, Alma Lloyd, William Davidson, Marie Wilson and Dick Foran.