MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 9

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"ELMER AND ELSIE" & "DOUBLE DOOR." After a protracted absence from the screen, George Bancroft, wlio has played amiable scoundrels, , smiling villians and virile heroes with such charm and abandon, returnS to the screen in another role that seems to be tailor-made for his rebust and breezy" style. He plays the lovable, bluffing braggart wlho becomes a self-made suceess with his wife's brains in Paramount's gay, little domestie comedy "Elmer and Elsie," which sereens at the Munieipal Theatre to*night. ^ The picture features Frances Fuller, who made her debut in "One Sunday Afternoon," as the wife; and Roscoe Karns, George Barbier, Nella Walker and Gharles Sellon iii cupporting roles. The plot of. this engaging little film is based on the fallacy of the great masculine delusion that "this- is a man's world and woman's . plaee is in tihe kitchen. " A distinguished cast headed by Evelyn Venable, Sir Guy Standing, Kent Taylor, Mary Morris, Ann Eevere and the ;New Zealanderj Oolin Tapley, are f eatured in Paramount's "Double Door," is the second f eature at the Munieipal Theatre. 'The picture reveals the story of a tyrannical, half-mad spinster who rules. ' the fates and the fortunes of one of New York's wealthiest families, from withln the gloomy family mansion overlookiiig Fifth Avenue. The direction was capably handled by Gharles Yidor.