GEORGE BANCROFT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 294, 6 August 1932, Page 7

GEORGE BANCROFT

PLAYS STELLAR ROLE IN "RICH MAN'S FOLLY." INTRIGUING STORY. What good is money after all, unless it hrings happipess? For- what purpose the accumulation of wealth by econoniLs and a whip>lashed will to wor.:, if friendships are lost and loye is rtifled and repelled? Why should "ambicion" ride roughshod and paint golden castles on a dista'nt horizoii, when only romanee and love will ever fill such domiciles with thoughtful friends and loving children 1 In Paramount's picture drama "Rich Man's Folly," which appears at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, August 13, these pertinent questions are the theme of a story of intriguing interest. They are the hasis of dramatic epsiodes that crowd the action of a marvellous picture drama. Georga Baneroft has the stellar role of "Brock Trumhull," an ambitious money-grab-bing shiphuilder who stifies all his gentler qualities for money and a mad ambition. This is just the kind of work in which Baneroft excels, character imparsonation. He lives the part. A hard-fisted, domineering man is born on the screen. Success follows success. Wealth' piles up. But the tide turns. Friends desert and his family is estranged. Money dwindles and his n ew wife leaves. He facss failure. Then at last the folly of it all comes to him. He reaches "out to his daughter, whoni he never loved and always oppnsed, groping, longing for the love and happiness he had always spurned,but which he now realises is the only thing that makes life worth while. To fully interpret such a role requires experience, talent, technique. Baneroft stretches himself and puts everything he has into the role. The picture is filled with incidents; the clash and clar.g of a great shipbuilding plant with its thousands of workers. It is a gv iat industrial epic in which pliotography as well as the players has an important role. In the cast are many screen favourites whom picture fans always like to see.