MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 17, 4 February 1937, Page 10

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

DOUBLE FEATURE RKU-Radio Pictures has deliverert another hit in "By Your Leave," at the Municipal to-night. A switt moving} roliicking romantic comedy, it has everything— a superb cast, delightful story, expert direction and lmposing production. Frank Morgan and Genevieve Tobin carry the acting iaurels, but are closely pressed by Neil Hamilton, Marion Nixon, and Glenn Anders. The story concerns the inferiority complex which -eneroaching middle age has given Henry Smith Henry feels ohat a marita] holiday, during which ho :an have a last fling and prove that he still )ossesses attraction for ladies, may

snap hjm out of the doldrUms. Ellen, the wife, doesn't approve of the idea, but relucfcanfcly agrees. Henry rushes away from his suburban home in New York and straight^ way meets , bitter disillusion. Every. tim© he gets within dating distance of a pretty girl he succumbs to acut© attacks of the jitters and guilty conscience. Finally, he eludes a sweet young paid companion a friend has wished on him for the evemiig and rushes home to Ellen. But Ellen isn't there. Complications thicken to a screamingly funny Mimax.' The second feature is "The Silver Streak." starring Charies Starrett and Sally Blane — a story dealing wit.h modern streamlined trains.