MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 12

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"LET'S GET MARRIED" AND "NIGHT KEY." There 's a lang'h a niinute in Columbia's rollicking new screen eomedy, "Let's Get Married," which screens at the Municipal Theatre. It is oue of the iunniest and most original comedies gcreened in many months, gaily flavour--ed Avith ji ri.otous, roughnec-k romanco and shaiplj'-spiced with undertones of drama, Avitli Ida Lupin, Ralpk Bellamy and Wa-lter Connolly in tho featured roles. Based- on a famou-s Saturday Eveniug Post story, "Let's Get Married" delvcs into the private lives of ; the olilcial weather man and a poli- j tici.au 's ciaughter. Alf red E. Green ! directed tho film from. a screen play by ! Ethel Hill. Beginald Benny, Baymond i VValburn and Nana Bryant are prominently cast. - Boris Karloif 's starring picture, Uni- j versal's "Nighf Key," presenting hiai 1 in a new kind of role, also screens at ' tiie Municipal Theatre. In it the star j abandons tho grotesquo make-up of his ' foriner roles and, playing the part i "straight^" reveals himself as a dra- j matic aetor of outstanding talent. The j story centres aroun'd one of the great \ burg'iar alarm systems such as guard thousands of banks and business firms throughout the nation. KarlofC is cast as an inventor who kas been robbed of thc system which he created. When ko hivents an i^nproved system and is robbed of i.t, too, he declares vengeance on his cneniy.