Man Who Could Work Miracles

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 12

Man Who Could Work Miracles

If you could work miracles, what would you do? Exactly. That is the position of George McWhirter .Fotheringay, small draper’s assistant, who is chosen in H. G. Wells’s “Man Who Could Work Miracles” for the great role in life. This film has gorgeous avenues of humour and satire. The little man of Roland Y’oung is so bothered about his sudden gift of the gods. He plays with his power, but inevitably, as he listens to other people’s advice, he becomes ambitious. He cannot get right inside pe'Ople. He cannot make the attractive Cockney girl, Ada—so well played by Joan Gardner—love him, and he cannot stop the faithful but less attractive Maggie Hooper of Sophie Stewart cease from loving him. He can, however, in a large w'ay

AVENUES OF HUMOUR AND SATIRE

control material tilings. He cries, at first fearfully and afterwards with more confidence, “Do it—now,” and it is done. That is why Police Constabel Winch, with whom he has a little argument, is discovered so suddenly endeavouring to control the San Francisco traffic. A horrid affair for the American reporters who have a perfectly good and most amazing news story in an English constable being spirited to San Francisco, but find it too fantastic to use.

“The Man Who Could Work Miracles” is one of those gifts of imagination for which the public should be exceedingly grateful. Included in its gallery of fine portraits is the Colonel Winstanley of Ralph Richardspn, one of the best actors in all England.