The producers have done rather well on all counts.

A mad and merry comedy.

The Mad Miss Manton is a comedy belonging to that late un- lamented school of folderol which had, one supposes, already been given a decent burial. But R.-K.-O. presents it as though it were something brand new.

The madcap pace can’t completely camouflage a dawdling murder-mystery, but the film maintains enough speed to succeed.