Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-03 | Page 7 | 'Night Court' Capitol Next

Night Court Capitol Next Night Court an Intensely dramatic dra matie matic story of an innocent girl who is framed and sent to prison on a charge of ot immorality is the next attraction attraction at- at traction at the Capitol theater startIng start start- Ing ng Wednesday The picture exposes political corruption in the courts of ot justice as none of its predecessors has las dared to do and the result is taking breath dramatic entertainment entertain men ment t. t Walter Waller Huston heads the cast as the night court judge responsible for the appalling up frame around which the he drama centers As Judge Moffett Moffett fett who has found that befriending the underworld pays in a financial way Huston gives a characterization equal in realism and power to his part as the drunken ward heeler InThe in inThe inThe The Wet Parade Moffett learning that an investigation of his court is under way makes frantic efforts to cover his trail of graft In so doing he places his paramour Lil in a cheap apartment next to that occupied occupied occupied pied by l I Mike kc a taxi driver and hi his wife Mary and their infant son When the young wife accidentally picks up a bank book revealing Moffetts Mol Mo- fett's cache of crooked spoils she unwittingly unwittingly un un- un wittingly arouses Moffetts Moffett's determination determination deter deter- to put her in a situation that tha will make her powerless to expose him Anita Page has her most gripping tripping grip trip gripping ping role as the innocent girl Irl Phillips Phil lips Holmes who definitely established himself as one of the screen screens screen's most talented young actors in An American Tragedy and Broken Lullaby appears as the fighting cab cabdriver cabdriver cabdriver driver Mike who knows just enough of the strange plot to give him grounds to work on The story moves at a tremendous pace Every scene is packed with sensational exposures that keep the I audience engrossed W. W S. S Van Dyck the he maker of Trader Horn keeps up p his reputation for giving thrills to the ic screen proving provin that modern life lite Ihas has las as many terrors as the jungle The ho cast is completed by Lewis Stone Jean can Hersholt John n Tully Marshall and Noel Francis Edna Ferber's So Big is being shown hown for the last times today at the Capitol