Show NEW MYSTERY FILM IS ADAPTED successful PLAY FLAY up to a few years ngo ago the detective dett ethu piny pla on oil tile the stage was it rather crude affair still adhering to the old notion that the audiene audience must not be deceived depended solely on oil situations and puzzling for their effects effect always letting the audience in on oil tile the secret but with the advent of plays of the thirteenth chair variety ar lety it a new idea was born the spectator was wag fooled and lie he liked it once it had be been n proved that tile the public liked to he be fooled the went a stel further and employed some of tile the ineth methods of the stage magician this resulted in the hokum type of plu where an all unfair advantage was aiken jt f the audience aud lente hut but amidst the nui of plays rood good or 01 bid bad of the detective variety several were quast aiding such as the bat the cat and the canary and the last warning ON owen davis it a dramatist of oe great ability finally wiott the donovan Do affair ind and because le ciu of it went to tile the lead head of his big clans clia hire here tsa is a real acil detective story worked out in a single scene with a ts of developments leading to a surprising je nou ement llen it ind did not depend upon tricks flicks or 01 hokum the suspicions of everyone even one are aie directed front fram oil one character to another wisely then did columbia ures choose when it selected for their lat esic film the donovan affair which is coining to the rozy theatre tre saha lay day the picture represents the last word vord in screen plis plays ati dying bui nerous and thill ling this of the owen divis davis sue ue bets cc is brought to the screen with it great east cast in dudins eluding jack holt dorothy revier reler IVil william livin collier Col liei jr asnes ayres and ethel wales |