DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 6

DE LUXE THEATRE.

Tomorrow's Programme,

Frank Morgan, as a small-town citizen, invades high life amid varied trials 'and tribulations, all in. the interest.of comedy,; in "The Ghost Comes Home," which opens tomorrow at the De Luxe Theatre: The new story sees him in a "straight" human characterisation. Morgan plays a timid, henpecked pet-shop owner in a small town who suddenly becomes a man of prominence when a boyhood friend who made a fortune1 promises him a million to spend improving the home town. His supposed death in a shipwreck and his return apparently from the dead, complicates his hectic existence. He plots against his domineering wife who tries to marry j theit,'daughter off to the town banker's son,; arid grief in general-dogs his pattbj He exposes the crooked politicians in extricating himself from his troubles and'becomes the town's hero. The cast includes Billie Burke as the domineering wife, Ann Rutherford as the romantic daughter. John Shelton, Reginald Owen, Donald Meek, Nat Pendleton, and Frank Albertson. "Waterfront," a rough and brawling tale dealing with the lives, the loves,and hates of the men who load and unload-the-ships, that come to aitypir cal. American seaport city, will be the second feature. Produced by Warner Bros., it has a cast in which Gloria Dickson, .Dennis Morgan, and Marie Wilson are featured, and which also includes such reliable players as Sheila Bromley, Larry'Williams, Aidrich Bqwker., v Frank Faylen. and Ward Bond. ""■ "" ""' ' - '