MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 8

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"IT CAN'T LAST FOREVER" AND "A FIGHT TO A FINISH." "It Can't Last Forever," a mad and merry comedy drama featuring Ralph Bellamy in his first comedy role, with Betty Furness and Robert Armstrong in support, will head the new screen programme at the Municipal Theatre starting to-night. ^imong the film's hignlights are two currently popular tunes, "Lazy Rhythm," sung by a group of coloured swingsters, and "Crazy Dreams," rendered by a b.eautiful young torch singer. The story of "It Can't Last Forever" concerns a couple of vaudeville agents who Sign a "Master Mind," give him a big publicity build-up only to have him get gloriously drunk at a crucial moment. Bellamy has to take the place of his psychic marvel and as the result he and Armstrong run into the lunniest

series of complications seen on the screen in many months. Don Terry makes his initial appearance on the screen in "A Fight to the Finish," second feature at the Municipal as the hot-headed, hard-punching leader of the independent taxi drivers, with Rosalind Keith opposite him as a pert and pretty nurse. The screen play tells of the hectic career of Duke Mallory, first superintendent of the City Cab Company, played by Terry. In a fight, Mallory sends a rival taxi man, armed with a steel wrench, crashing against a bumper and the latter is killed. Hawkins, one of Mallory's drivers who covets both his job and his girl, refuses to testify at the trial as to the accidental nature of the killing with the result that Mallory goes to gaol.