PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“TIME OUT FOR MURDER” AND “ONE WILD NIGHT" Romance in reverse seems to characterise the screen adventures ol Gloria Stuart and Michael Whalen, who are teamed for the sixth time in “Time Out for Murder,” 20th Cen-tury-Fox mystery thriller opening today at the Plaza Theatre. The film couple started their hectic cinema romance with the dawn of first love in “Professional Soldier.” At the close of the picture was the unmistakable promise of a wedding in the near future. In “The Lady Escapes" Michael and Gloria portrayed a married couple living in a sort of cunnubial shuttle. Their quarrels served both to separate and reunite them, and the whole was a wellmeaning comedy ravourably received by their growing audiences. Soon after, however, they lost their marital status, in “Poor Little Rich Giri," but Shirley Temple brought them together again. “Change ot Heart" saw the young couple wedded again, but the next picture, “Island in the Sky,” celebrated only their engagement. In their newest picture, “Time Out for Murder," Gloria and Michael are strangers to each other, right back where they started! They meet in rather unfavourable circumstances when Gloria, as an employee of a collection agency duns Michael, a cashless newspaper reporter, for a 15 dollar bill. Before Gloria can collect her bill she helps Michael and his side-kick, Chick Chandler, news photographer, solve a baffling mystery in which New York'., telephone time-signal provides the only clue! Dick Baldwin, who seems destined to be punching his way ou! of predicaments in the movies, gets plenty of excitement on the screen in the same programme in “One Wild Night," 20th Century-Fox mys-tery-farce. Baldwin, who appeared recently in another film as a boxer, spends several hours a week in the gym with such pugilists as Fidel Laßarba and Maxie Rosenbloom. In his college days at St. Louis, Dick fought 50 bouts with some of the best undergraduate leather-pushers in the country at 160 pounds. June Lang heads a cast with Baldwin, Lyle Talbot, J. Edward Bromberg and Sidney Toler in prominent roles.