MUNICIPAL THEATRE
two fine dramas. Fast-moving dramatie ection along with a thrilling and dangerous ro-manee makes ' ' Silk Hat Kid, ' ' which continues its engagement to-night on the screen of the Municipal Theatre, one of the most powerful and mosfc daring lilms ever to be present. Lew Ayres is revealed as a fast-thinking, two-fisted boydguard. Paul Kelly, owner of a cafe located in the perilous slums of a big city, hires Ayres to protecfc hint from chiseling raeketeers. Ayres encets and falls in love with Mae Olarkc, Kelly 's girl fricnd, ., and an intense rivalry results. Both men come to hate each other bitterly and gunpiay appears to he the only way out. But at ■this point the film takes on such thrill ing drama that it promises to keep theatre audiences highly entertained throughout. Based on C. M. Forester's novel, "Brown on Resolution," a story of naval adventure on Resolution Islsnd, one of the lonely Galapagos group in the Paeific, is also at the Municipal. This is the first purely dramatie film in which tho full c» operation of tho British Admiral ty has been suecessfully - sought.'jMkreviously the naval authori- ' tjoR their permlssion to pureiy^HntmitM^^; pieturftfc
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 62, 31 March 1937, Page 14
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