MUNICIPAL THEATRE
••hot tip" and lightning strikes twice." James Gleason and ZaSu Pitts, that inimitable laugli team, mix hilarily with with the thrills attending horse races, in RKO Radio 's comedy-drama, I "Hot Tip," which screens at the Alu- I nieipal Theatre to-night. . I Gleason plays the role of a lunch 8 counter proprietor who believes he can I clean up a fortune on the races, while Miss Pitts is seen as his chief obstaele co quick riches, exercising a nrm lioid on the family bankroll. "Hot Tip" is a fast moving story played against the beautiful back^ ground of Santa Anita, California, seene of the world 's richest raeing stake, where much' of the action of the picture takes plaee. . As the fastcst, merriest farce in inany a moon, with laughs galore, "Lightning Strikes Twice," the see. ond feature at the Municipal Theatre, proves to be a peak Hollywood comedy of the year. The story is an unusual combinatiou of the comic and melodramatic;, It deals with the day's oxperiences of a wealthy chap, having one last fling with a pay before his flancee and his aunt arrive -on the scene, and whose butle> . has a horror of cats. To this last point is keyed the laughably exciting "mur- . der mystery" 'interwoven with the inain theine. .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 10
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217MUNICIPAL THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 10
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