COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN.”

With the shrewd amiability that has won him a preferred niche in the hearts of detective story readers and movie fans, Nero Wolfe again solves a complicated crime. This time it involves no less than three murders, and its roots are embedded twenty years back in the lives of thirteen men. Nero is personified in that extremely fine actor, Walter Connolly, who cleverly manoeuvres the character through the engrossing Columbia production, “The League of Frightened Men,” which will be shown tonight. Connolly is the perfect Nero Wolfe. Aside from being a particularly gifted actor, Connolly is so naturally most persons’ conception of the author’s detective that it is uncanny. And, of course, there’s the inimitable Lionel Stander as Nero’s right-hand man. Apparently, it is impossible for these two actors ever to be anything less than excellent. Fine performances are also given by Eduardo Ciannelli, Irene Hervey, Allen Brook, Walter Kingsford, Edward McNamara, and others. As a matter of fact, the cast is uniformly superior. The second feature, “Let's Get Married,” is a" really hilarious comedy, starring Ralph Bellamy, Ida Lupino and Reginald Denny.