TIVOLI THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 7

TIVOLI THEATRE.

"The Baroness and the Butler."

The gay, dignified swish of peerage and its collapse in a middle-European, New Deal offers a deFghtfully exciting theme for "The Bareness awl tha Butler," which is the next chaflge at the Tivoli Theatre. This Darryl F. Zanuck production for 20th CenturyFox co-stars William Powell and Annabella in a blithe screen version of the stage hit that had half of Europe agog. Annabella, in her first Ameri-can-made picture, believes butlers are born to obey ... but! debonair, Bill obeys such un-butler-like impulses! She's so proud; he's so proper. Thi» film has caught the tone and flavour of an old regime—years of tradition and generations of escutcheon worship—suddenly confronted with a blue blood's dilemma in which the self-ef-facing butler emerges from his cocoon.1 to assume social equality with his noble employers. PowelL at his suave best, tries to save the Count's family, from the blow of learning that he has been elected, to Parliament on the Socialist-Progressive ticket. By his very actions he brings down charges of impoliteness, fraud, and trickery on his head. He incurs the wrath of every one but his Count—whose chief worry is that he will lose a good butler. The solving of this situation and the ensuingv, battle of wits with "Baroness" Annabella and.^a brilliant cast, gives movie fans a treat, long to be remembered. Powell never was better. Annabella reveals the most glamorously exciting personality ever to grace the screen. The supporting cast of "The Baroness and the Butler 51 features Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson, Joseph Schildkraut, J. Edward ' Bromberg, Nigel Bruce, , and Lynn Bari. Gangdom leaves the underworld, invades the home, and casts its sinister shadow over an; average family household in the new Paramount picture, "Hunted . Men," which will be the second film. Tha new film is a thrilling stor* r of a "big shot" racketeer's last stand against the police after he has murdered a night club owner. Lloyd Nolan, portraying the gangster, takes refuge in Lynne Overman's quiet suburban home, and only "realises what .a. mistake his life has been when he is, idolised by Overman's young»son, Delmar Watson, and falls- in love with his daughter, Mary Carlisle. .