CAPITOL THEATRE
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
What would man do if he could work miracles? What would be your first impulse if you knew that you had only to command a certain event and it would come to pass? H. G. Wells and Alexander Korda offer an amazing series of surmises in “The Man Who Could Work Miracles,” commencing at the Capitol Theatre tonight. A prologue depicts a discussion among three celestial beings as to what would be man’s reactions to the power of working miracles. They decide to try the experiment on some “ordinary little fellow,” and George McWhirter Fotheringay, shop assistant, is chosen for the test. Completely nonplussed and apprehensive, it is some time before Fotheringay can fnlly realise the import of the latent power he now holds in his hands. His decision that the parson is tiie only one upon whose advice he can rely leads that gentleman to plan an immediate reconstruction of the world, the first attempt to reform the whiskydrinking colonel next door by turning his ‘might cap” into soap and water. then goes on through some hilarious situations. The role of Fotheringay is portrayed' by Boland Young, ablv sunnorteri
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Te Puke Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 61, 2 August 1938, Page 2
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195CAPITOL THEATRE Te Puke Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 61, 2 August 1938, Page 2
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