The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 16, 1930

Spook House. For the multitude who enjoy detective stories and mystery plays in which ghastly white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny...

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