STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“TIME OUT FOR MURDER.” The new programme at the State Theatre tonight will be headed by two outstanding attractions,- “Time Out For Murder” and “Meet the Girls.” If you like mysteries plausible as well as thrilling, you really ought to take time out to see “Time Out For Murder,” first of 20th Century-Fox’s new Roving Reporter. series, with Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler’ featured in a fine cast,” writes a Sydney critic. The story opens with the Roving Reporter —Whalen, and his practi-cal-joking photographer, Chick Chandler —late, as usual, at the scene of. a murder. In fact the police have already booked’ a suspect and it looks like an open-and-shut case. The two newspapermen file their story and repair to their apartment to pursue their separate hobbies. Whalen is learning to play the trombone and making private recordings of his progress, while Chandler picks up the phone to listen for hours at a time to the dulcet voice of the time signal operator, with whom he imagines he’s in love. Just when you think you’d rather not hear any more of Whalen’s, tentative essays on the slide horn, in walks Gloria Stuart to demand the final payment on the instrument for her collection agency. She refuses to leave the premises until the improvident Whalen settles up. And when Chandler’s telephoning suddenly uncovers what appears to be a startling hew development in the afternoon’s murder case, Gloria becomes an involuntary party to the harrowing adventures in sleuthing that follow. Others in the cast of “Time Out For Murder,” include Douglas Fowley as a rather likeable gangster, Robert Kellard <as the suspect, Jean Rogers as his pretty sweetheart and Jane Darwell as a telephone company supervisor. , “Meet the Girls,” introduces June Lang and Lynn Bari as big town girls in a new series. A very pleasant acquaintanceship began the moment the girls lost their night club jobs and found themselves stranded, cashless, in Honolulu. The picture is full of exciting escapades.