DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

When Phillip Dunning and George Abbott1 wrote their dramatic thunderbolt, "Broadway" which held New York spellbound for almost two years, they little dreamed that even the sensational action of their play could be broadened by the camera into the film, which commences at the Do Luxe Theatre to-day, and will be screened twice daily for the next two weeks. No setting is too big to be photographed, and so Universal, for the production of "Broadway," built the Paradise Club as the biggest ever constructed even in the motion picture industry,-and photographed both iv technicolour and sound. No expense was too prodigal for such a picture, and so Tryon, Hiss Brent, and Miss Kennedy were cast in the leading roles, supported by such players as Thomas Jackson and Paul Porcasi,. both of jtrhom played their. parts throughout the New York run of the play, Robert Ellis, Otis Harlan, and a host of other popular favourites. Gus Arnheim and his Coconut Grove Orchestra . play the revue hits, sung and danced by the beauty chorus. The inherent drama of the stage production -was left intact, the dialogue used being identical. But where, in the Play, Roy Lane, Billio Moore, Pearl and the other girls go offstage into an unseen Paradise Club, in the picture the camera follows them into tho actual setting. The musical programme of the original De Luxe Orchestra under the direction of Mr. L. D. Austin will include tho overture, "Beautiful Galathea," by Suppe, an* entra'cte, "Slavonic Ehapsody," by Friedman. Box plans aro available at The Bristol Piano Co. -and Altken's Book Arcade (Courtenay place).. Reservations may also be obtained by application to the theatre.