Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 6, 1926

The Ghost Train. The first mystery melodrama of the year is an importation from England, and, though the locale is changed to Maine, it remains as completely British as ever. The story is of a group of stranded passengers at a country station who are terrified by tales of a mysterious train—an eerie local, Alexander Woollcott called it—that made its unearthly appearance from time to time. The mystery itself is intriguing enough, but the solution is less satisfying. On the whole, the melodrama is rather less exciting than it should be.

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