“MEN LOVE BRUTES”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 370, 13 September 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

“MEN LOVE BRUTES”

MAJESTIC’S NEW PROGRAMME GEORGE BANCROFT STARRED To-day’s notable offering at the Majestic Theatre will be the second appearance at this house of the great “talkie” actor George Bancroft, whose splendid speaking voice and magnetic personality shows to high advantage in the powerful dramatic play “Ladies Love Brutes,” a screen adaptation of the stage success, “Pardon, My Glove I” written by the authoress of “Sarah and Sun,” and directed by Rowland V. Lee, the man responsible for George Bancroft’s previous successful picture, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” In “Ladies Love Brutes,” the American trade journal “Variety” credits George Bancroft with delivering “the finest characterisation yet contributed by him in the talking field.” The story of the piece is far from the beaten track, and is described as being “gripping in the extreme.” Mary /istor is the leading lady in a part that is said to fit her 'ike a glove, and which affords ample opportunities for the display of bewitching frocks in the latest fashion. Stanley Fields has a forceful character, Frederic March is also well placed, Claud Allistcr, of “Three Live Ghosts” fame, is said to be funnier than ever in the part of a fashionable tailor, and David Durand, the clever boy of “Innocents of Paris,” and many others are in one of the strongest casts that has been got together for some time in one picture. Four selected short subjects will form the first part of what is said to be one of the strongest programmes yet submitted at the Majestic Theatre. A “Mickey the Mouse” cartoon will also be presented.