COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“MURDER WITH PICTURES.’’ The solution of a baffling murder committed directly in front of forty horrified witnesses who see the victim fall dead at their feet, but catch no sight of the murderer or his weapon, is the basis of Paramount’s “Murder With Pictures,” with Lew Ayres and Gail Patrick, which will be shown tonight. In an entirely new treatment for this type of picture, the identity of the slayer is ultimately revealed in a whirlwind finish by a photograph which was taken just as the crime was committed. A mere wisp of smoke in the photograph betrays the plotter and breaks a “perfect crime.” With Ayres as a happy-go-lucky newspaper photographer who solves the mystery, and with beautiful Miss Patrick as a woman of mystery, “Murder With Pictures” is well supplied with all the ingredients necessary to satisfy the most rabid mystery fan. A light-hearted comedy of the “Mr Deeds Goes to Town,” and “It Happened One Night” type, brings Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold and Ray Milland to the screen in “Easy Living, the story of a £12,000 sable coat and how it almost wrecked Wall Street Miss. Arthur owns the coat and Arnold is the Wall Street tycoon with whom it plays havoc. Ray Milland is the boy in the case.