Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1932

Night Mayor (Columbia). Using one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite puns for a title is not the only means by which this cinema manages to make unmistakable the resemblance of its hero, Mayor Bobby Kingston, to Manhattan's famed executive. Mayor Kingston (Lee Tracy) wakes up one morning to find that his political activities are the subject of an unfriendly investigation. He dedicates a bridge from a microphone in his bedroom, starts for a city board meeting, ends up backstage at a musical show where he demonstrates a dance routine to a chorus girl...

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