MUNICIPAL THEATRE
"HOT TlP" AND LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE." James Gleason and ZaSu Pitts, that inimitable laugh team, mix hilarlty with with the thrills attending horso races, in RKO Radio 's comedy-drama, "Hcrt Tip," which screens at the Municipal Theatre to-night. Gleason plays the role of a lunch counter proprietor who believes he ca'n clean up a fortune on the races, while Miss Pitts is seen as his ehief obstaele co quick riches, exercising a iirm hoid on the family bankroll. "Hot Tip" is a fast moving story played against the beautiful baek." ground of Santa Anita, California, seene of the world's richest raciag stake, where much of the action of the picture takes place. As the fastest, merriest farce in xuany a moon, with laughs galore, "Lightning Strikes Twice," the second feature at the Municipal Theatre, proves to be a peak Hollywood comody of the year. The story is an unusual combinatiou of the comic and melodramatic. It deals with the day's experiences of a wealthy cliap, having one last fling with a pay befo're his flancee and his aunt arrive on the seene, and whose butleihas a horror of cats. »To this last point is keyed the laughably exciting "nu;rder mystery" interwoven with the main theme. When the butler, unnerved by the nieowing of a cat— black at that!— shoots into the darkness, things begin to happen. Police arrive, and another bullct accidcntally knoeks the cup i roro an oflicer, who drops. through a nutuholt cover. jj
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 7
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248MUNICIPAL THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 7
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