New Mystery in Manhattan

Ten Little Indians (by Agatha Christie; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Albert de Courville) is a lavishly murderous English mystery which acts out the nursery rhyme of the ten little Indians almost to the point of "--and then there were none." Mysteriously bidden to a house party on a lonely island, ten people find no host to greet them, only a gramophone solemnly charging each of them with having at some time committed a murder. Then one of them--the point, of course, being who--starts murdering the others at ten-minute intervals; and while he is busy with booby traps, poisons, axes, nooses and knives, one of those storms blows up that shakes the house and douses the lights. Once it encounters suitable weather, and has piled up enough corpses to throw the few jittery survivors into sharper relief, Ten Little Indians gets pretty menacing and tense; things happen, and the characters become more than toppling tenpins. But. the first act is talky and slow, and even the second act's murders are leisurely. And in terms of psychological interest, eight people with a motive for killing one man still have a decided edge over one man with a motive for killing eight.

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