GEORGE BANCROFT AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 14

GEORGE BANCROFT AGAIN

BIG ALL-TALKIE FOR PLAZA With a laugh for trouble and a curse for a weakling, George Bancroft drives his way through his role in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” his new starring picture for Paramount, which offers him

liis first “dressed - up ” opportunity since he became a star. It is coming to the Plaza Theatre shortly as the next big all-talking feature. In “The Dragnet,” and “The Docks of New York,”’ the pictures that brought him to the top ranking of cinema players, Bancroft

played, the gang leader, terror of society, yet its guardian, and the role of a rough ship’s stoker respectively. They were roles that he played with shirt opened at the throat and sleeves rolled back. In his present picture. Bancroft plays a bullying, uncouth, but shrewd broker 01 Wall Street, a man without fear or conscience, driving over every obstacle, and even welcoming ruin when it proves the only way he cun defeat his enemy. The picture was directed by Rowland V. Lee, and the supporting cast features Nancy Carroll, Baclanova, and Paul Lukas. American critics report that Ronald Col man's first talking picture “Bulldog ; Drummond” is a great success. As might be expected Ronald Colman’s i ctear voice, so English, registers very \ distinctly indeed.