“GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY”

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 March 1949, Page 3

“GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY”

Film 'Of The Week

From the studios of 20th Century Fox comes a gay, romantic story of a family who waits in vain for the return of Vaudeville to Broadway after it had waned in 1932. “Give My Regards to Broadway” is the tale of a man’s faith in the “OldTime,” of how he and his family continually practise the routine which goes under the name of “Albert the Great and Family,” dreaming of the day when they will be back at the Palace Theatre on Broadway, with their names up in lights for the world to see, and performing to cheering audiences. While Charles Winninger, as “Albert the Great,” dreams on, and waits patiently for the great day, always “just around the corner,” his two girls, May and June, eventually decide to get married, and the act of “Albert the Great and Family” is, much to Albert’s sorrow, reduced to “Albert the Great and Son,” the ‘son’ being Bert, who really is the act—and his father’s last hope.

Bert is talented from his fingertips to his toes, and proves it with his singing-dancing-juggling routines. What is more important in his father’s eyes is the fact that he is interested in nothing save the stage. That is, until he meets Helen ■—and then he too becomes interested in romance —and baseball as Well!

Bert, the family star, who becomes star of a baseball team instead, is portrayed by Dan Dailey. Charles Winninger celebrates his fiftieth anniversary in show business as the veteran trouper ‘Albert the Great” who would rather miss meals in vaudeville than eat regularly as vice-president of, an industrial firm.

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