MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 10

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

TWO FINE FEATURES Oue of riie most delicious sqreen oomedies of the decade, "Lottery Lover " begins at the Mimicipal to-night. This kox Film comedy-romauqe is the storj Ojc a gallant"' crew of young. cadets, enjoying their fist leave in Paris. One of tjieij number, the only giri-shy ±ellow in the lot, wins tho lottery which tliey /have organised, With it he wins fchear pooled resources, the right to woo tho glamorouB darling oi the . ' 'Follies . Bergere' '—and the . lady garter • ac his calling. card. The notable oasfi jncludes Lew Ayres, ,fPat" Patersoh, Peggy Fears, Regina|d Leiiny, Alan Dinehart, Walter King, Sterling Holloway and Nick Foran. "The County Chairman," al'so at fihe Municipal, shows Will Rogers more mirthful, human and engrossing thafi "David Harum," "Handy Andy" or "Judge Priest." "The Counfiy Chairman" has been adapted from GeOrge Ade'g famous stage play of ,a geueration ago and deals with' small-town politics back at the turn of the' centfiry. Their oolouri'ul persoiialities, their frenzied rallies, their intense feeling made of them a vei-y different "game" from politics to-day — conduoted with reserve and dignity yia the radio, The star is seen as the seasoned veteran of ma'ny a campaign— the fiery war-horse of his state, who knows every family skeleton by its first name— and donen't hesitate to use them I