An end must come, says the sage, to all good things, so it may be mildly hoped that the recent windfall of gangland "dramas" that has done so much to glorify the American Thug has worn itself out with "The Last Parade," this week's feature at Keith's. At any rate the picture goes a long way toward putting this particular type of entertainment "on the spot."

The moss covered plot is concerned with a newspaper reporter and a policeman, played respectively by Jack Holt and Tom Moore, two old timers who should certainly have known better, and the triangle is completed by Constance Cummings, a comparative newcomer who as yet doesn't seem to have traversed a considerable distance.

Finding himself out of a job at the end of the war Holt, by a series of events which are mainly left to the imagination, becomes a notorious gangster. The combined efforts of Miss Cummings and Mr. Moore fail to save the racketeer and he is last seen in a storm of sentimentality being accompanied to the electric chair by his ineffectual benefactors.

The other attractions on the bill enliven with a modicum of success a programme that just misses being out and out dull.