MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 8

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

"ELMER AND ELSIE" & "DOUBLE DOOR." . After a protracted absence froin the screen, George Bancroft, who has played amiable scoundrels, smiling villi&ns 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 wiho becomes a self-made success with his wife's brains in Paramount's gay, little domestic comedy "Elmer and Elsie," which screens at the Munieipal Theatre to-night. The .pieture features Frances Fuller, who made her debut in "One Sunday Afternoon,,, as the wife; and Roscoe Karns, George Barbier, Nella Walker and 'Charles Sellon in 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 place is in tihe kitehen. " A distinguished cast headed by Evelyn Venable, Sir Guy Standing, Kent Taylor, Mary Morris, Ann Revere and the Neiv Zealander, Colin Tapley, are featured in Paramount's "Double Door," is the second feature at the Munieipal Theatre. The pieture 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 within the gloomy family mansion overlooking Fifth Avenue. The direction was capably hanuled by Gharles Vidor.