The Daily Alaska Empire

FATHER OF BRIDE
ENDS TONIGHT AT
CAPITOL THEATRE
"Father of the Bride," the best-seller story that has been attracting crowds to the Capitol Theatre will be having its last showings in Juneau tonight.
Anyone who has witnessed the marriage of his own daughter or that of a friend will find a familiar echo in the predicament of Spencer Tracy, as Stanley Banks, in marrying off his twenty-year-old daughter, played by the fetching Elizabeth Taylor. It is all here, just as it was in the book and just as it happens in hundreds of households throughout the country today and every day.
The story opens with Stanley's first shock at realizing he is going to lose his daughter whom he thinks of as still a child. There is the distrust of his future son-in-law Buckley Dunstan, which precipitates a rib-tickling heart-to-heart talk in which the prospective father-in-law comes out a decided loser. There is the apprehensive meeting between the respective parents, happily eased when the two fathers discover a mutual appreciation of Martinis. There is the problem of whether to have a large or small wedding, with Stanley's hopes for the latter completely overruled by Kay's mother, Ellie (Joan Bennett). There is the frenzy of wedding preparations, with unnerving interviews with caterers, florists, etc., the opening of gifts, the terrific impact of the trousseau bill.