MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 11

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"NOBODY'S FOOL" AND "THE MAN WHO LIVED TWICE." .Edward Everett Horton screens in the Universal picture, "Nobody's Fool," at the Municipal Theatre, tonight, Horton, as a small town waiter, goes to New York to give the Big Town his ideas on the building of model homes. Tlie seif sufficient know-it-all becomes. involved in a battle between two groups of real estate racketeers. He does not .realise he is being kidded and that makes the situation even funnier. Then he becomes interested in Glendu Farrell, member %of one mob, who tiings wisecracks at his head. But they bounce right back. Tliings begin to pop when Horton crosses battle-axes with Cesar Romero, chief of a rival crowd. i Thrills. and chillg abpund plentifully

in Columbia's "The Man Who Lived , fwice," featuring Ralph Bellamy, Marain Carsh and Isabel Jewell, which is the second feature at the Municipal. The film tells of th'e transformation on the operating table of a dangerous, implacable killer into a gentle, honest citizen, who then uses his talents and genius to study and succeed in the practice of medicine. Bellamy appears in the title role, with Thurston Hall as the doctor responsible for his "regeneration" ; Marian Marsh as the girl with whom he falls in love; Isabel Jewell as his onetime girl who refuses to give him up even after the surgeon's sealpel has completely clianged him and blanked his memory; Ward Bond as his former pal who remains loyal to the end; and others in supporting roles. The climax mounts in the final courtroom scenes where Bellamy stands trial for the crimes he had committed as his former self.