“I KILLED THE COUNT”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 2

“I KILLED THE COUNT”

REGENT THEATRE ON MONDAY./ The remark is sometimes heard, "Why don’t the firm of J. C. Williamson send us more good stage plays? Well, it is announced today that Alec Coppel's now famous mystery-comedy drama “I Killed the Count” will be presented for one night only at the' Regent Theatre commencing at 8 p.m. “I Killed the Count” took London by storm in 1937 and was acclaimed by Press and public as the best play' of its kind that had been staged during the last twenty years, not excluding “The Ghost Train” or “Ten-minute Alibi.” Naturally it would never do to describe the plot of the play or to disclose its denouement. Sufficient to say that an abundance of ingenious plotting has gone to the making of it. A Count is murdered. Two detectives investigate. To their confusion a peer, a liftman, and an American separately confess to the murder, and there is evidence to support all their confessions. It then appears that they have conspired together to defeat the police, and no sooner is this known than a fourth confession, this time quite genuine, is thrust upon the detectives. Three versions of the crime are shown in flash backs and the final curtain is as clever as it is amazing. A specially-chosen cast is said to give a flawless interpretation of the play. The box plan is now open at W. G. Perry’s, Queen Street.