If you are an admirer of Edna May Oliver, you will enjoy "Murder on a Honeymoon." It is shown at 1.14, 4.18, 7.22, and 10.26 o'clock. This leaves you no excuse for seeing the "Casino de Paree' stage show.
When an airplane lands at Catalina Island with a honeymoon couple, a movie director, and Miss Oliver among its occupants, one of the other passengers is found to have died on route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection.
As always, the professional is the foil of the amateur, and Mr. Gleason continually tries to claim responsibility for the achievements of Miss Oliver's sleuthing. Although the picture is entertaining, it will probably prove too easy for mystery-lovers who pride themselves on their ability to spot the murderer.
If you stay for the stage show, you will see New York's idea of things vaudeville. Not least offensive are the Six Rosebuds, a chorus of circus fat ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies.
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