MUNICIPAL THEATRE
DOUBLE-PEATURE BILL Based on the successful Londox stage farce, "Ohl Daddy, ' ' th© pici^re which screens at the Mttnicipal to-night is an excellent example of the power oi clever direction to develop, from the narrower conlines of a Stage presentation, a picturesque, kaleidoscopic confection presenting an .infinitely more varied entertaiument. Au atinosphere of infectious gaiety is quickly created by Leslie Henson (Lord Pye) and Robertson Hare (Rupert Boddy) who, as a screen team are an unqualified sUCcesS. "Thunder ln the Night," the xnystery melodrama Which is the second feature at the Muflicipal, provides mdntal exercise fdr the keen followers of mystery tales and a pleaaUnt revelation for the admirers of that Iikable and versatile star, Edmund Lowe, who emerges in an entirely new type of characterisation in this piGtUre. Cleverly written, directed and photogr&phed, 1 ' Thunder in the Night" keeps its hudiefices at a high pitch of stispense with its whirlwind sequence of events in oue of the fastest mystetv pictures brought to tho sereen
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 74, 14 April 1937, Page 15
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166MUNICIPAL THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 74, 14 April 1937, Page 15
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