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“HOME TOWNERS” TOMORROW “The Home Towners," a great screen revival of George M. Cohan’s great stage success, is coming to the Plaza Theatre on Thursday. The cast has many famous recruits from the stage, including Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, Robert McWade, Robert Udeson, Gladys Brockwell, John Miljan, Vera Lewis, Stanley Tajlor, James T. Mack and Patricia Caron. And'what is equally important, there is something to say. !No playwright of our day is more deft in comedy
than George M. Cohan, and Warner Brothers’ adapters, have kept all the charm of the original. Bryan Foy, who is one of the really great direc- ! tors of the day, is responsible for I Warner Brothers* I latest triumph. | “T he Home . Towners” is a genI ial, heart-warming, chuckling play—recounting the ad-
ventures of two middle-aged chums, the young lady to whom one is engaged, and her family. Robert McWade plays P. 11. Bancroft, the smalltown pal who hears that his millionaire crony is engaged to marry a big town young woman. Bancroft at once assumes that she and her family are hoodwinking his friend, and comes post haste to Manhattan to set things right. Instead, he sets things decidedly wrong, and it is only after much uproarious manoeuvring that he straightens out the mix-up he himself has made. Robert McWade marvellously interprets the same part lie played in the original stage production.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 765, 11 September 1929, Page 16
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