MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 10

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"DANDY DICK" & "DEATH FLIES EAST." • "Dandy Dick," starring Will Hay, screene at the Municipal Theatre tonight. In this :0.1m Will is the poor good-natured vicar of an English village, the church spire of which has for long been in suck a precarious position that the parish council keeps hagging the vicar into making a special elfort to raise the uecessary thousand pounds to'have a new one erected. His daughter 's lover, Tony, makes various suggestions that are supposed to help him, but actually do the revorse. He suggests, for instance, that the vicar should niake an oflrer of £250 on coudition that three others come forward with the same suin. Imagine his surprise whon three otheTs coipe forward with the specifled sum and place on him the obligation of linding a cool quarter of a thousand when his sole possessions amount to a mere £25. A racehorse then enters the story to provide a stirling and hilarious climax. What happens when a man is murdered aboard a transcontinental air liner is depicted in the Colunibia production, "Death Flies East, " which is the main featui'e at the Municipal. Becnuse Florence Rice, cast as an exconvict, has brokcn parolo by loaving the Stato, she is immodiatcly accused of the murdcr. Conrad Nagel, who is foatured as a brilliant young pi'ofessor, comes to her rescue, but only al'ter a great deal of suspense is lic able to prove her iunocence.