PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“TIME OUT FOR MURDER” AND “ONE WILD NIGHT.” “Time Out for Murder,” first ot 20th Century-Fox's new Roving Reporters series, concludes to-night at the Plaza Theatre with Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler featured. The film introduced a new pair of amateur sleuths, known as The Roving Reporters, who risk (heir necks for news to solve a big Manhattan case. Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler, reporter and photographer respectively, are accompanied by pretty Gloria Stuart in their investigation and the trio in turn is accompanied by plenty of exciting action. Douglas Fowley, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell and Jean Rogers are included in the cast. The anomalous situation of a big crime wave without a victim forms a hectic plot for the newest 20th Century-Fox detective thriller, "One Wild Night,” now showing at the Plaza Theatre and even the most indifferent student of criminology will insist that "violence without benefit of victim” cannot happen. In “One Wild Night,” three prominent citizens vanish into thin air following a weird "ride” . . . and June Lang, Dick Baldwin and Lyle Talbot become entangled in a strange mystery. “The Cowboy and the Lady.” The best comedy offering to be seen here for some time is undoubU edly "The Cowboy and the Lady,” which is to commence to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre. Gary Cooper is at the top of the form which brought “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” and "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife” into so much favour with audiences the world over. In “The Cowboy and the Lady” he is cast in a role which jis eminently suited to his talents, > for, apart from being one of the comparatively few Western screen heroea who really can ride a horse, he has the real cowboy manner as a carryover from his pre-acting days. Playing opposite him is Merle Oberon, who, though she is justly famous in her own right for film successes, is making her first appearance with Gary Cooper.