“I KILLED THE COUNT”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 2

“I KILLED THE COUNT”

REGENT THEATRE ON MONDAY. It is said that theatregoers would have to go back to “The Thirteenth Chair,” “The Ghost Train,” or “Ten Minute Alibi” to recall a play which compares with the originality in construction, the intermingling in equal quantities of mystery, thrills, comedy and romance, and the sensational climax of “I Killed the Count,” which J. C. Williamson’s new London company is to present for the first time in Masterton, at the Regent Theatre on Monday next at 8 p.m. “I Killed the Count” comes from the scintillating pen of the brilliant author Alec Coppel, and from the viewpoint of those on both sides of the footlights it is sheer joy. For this is the story of the perfect crime. The positively foolproof murder not only baffles the keenest brains of the cleverest detectives, but it is a challenge to every member of the audience. The plot of “I Killed the Count” is too good to give away. Suffice to say that this is the mystery play that was running concurrently in London and Paris during 1937 and was revived in London again in 1939 and might still be running had not war broken out. With careful discrimination and an endeavour to present the play precisely as it was produced in London, J. C. Williamson, Ltd., have had the setting and effects duplicated and brought to New Zealand and a specially-selected cast will include Harvey Adams, Doris Packer, Atholl Fleming, Jane Conolly, Norman Lee, Alec Pratt, Clifford Cowley, Eric Reiman, Katie Towers, Hori Thomas. John Howard and Reg Collins and Flemming Barrett. The box plans are filling rapidly at W. G. Perry’s. It is essential to reserve.