CIVIC THEATRE
SATURDAY ONLY In presenting the new George Formby film "He Snoopes to Con-que-r" at the Civic Theatre on Saturday only, audiences will see*-him in an entirely new role. George-has depicted many various characters, policeman, airman, sailor, Home Guard, and now we find him as the man-of-all-work in a Town Council office. The picture gives George Formby the most topicalj-ple of his screen career as the "man' of the people" who is being backed for the local council election of Tangleton by eccentric millionaire Sir Timothy Strawbridge (played by Robertson Hare) and his daughter Jane (Elizabeth Allan) , in an effort to bring the Government's proposed scheme for town planning into bcing, despite the opposition of a crooked council and its chairman (played by Claude Baileyk Unfortunately for George, elec-
tioneering brings forth all kinds of troubles, but for the audience sequence after sequence of hilarious fun. ~ (
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 October 1946, Page 2
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