DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

Broadway," the all-talking, singing, and dancing picture, is the feature at the De Luxe Iheatre. The story of "Broadway" contrasts the romance of a boy and a girl, entertainers in Now York's pleasure whirl, against the drama of the underworld. The love of Koy Lane and Billlo Moore, played by Glenn Tryon and Myrna Kennedy, is threatened hy the sinister shadow of Stcvo Crandall, tho "liauor king," played by Robert Ellis, and they find themselves drawn into the vortex of gangster warfare because of Crandall's desire for the beautiful revue girl. How Pearl, tho "belle of Broadway," avenges the murder of her gangster sweetheart, and how Dan M'Corn, the "white" cop of the night club belt, plays straight, forms the climax which delighted New iork for ninety consecutive weeks. Pearl's role is enacted by Evelyn Brent, and both Thomas Jackson and Paul Porcasi, who play tho detective and the night-club proprietor respectively, create for tiie screen the same characterisations which they played throughout the Isew lork stage run. Besides the leading Mayers already enumerated, the cast of Broadway" includes Otis Harlan, ono of the most beloved character comedians on the screen, Marlon Lord, as MI, "queen ot the uicht clubs," Leslie Fen ton as "Scar" Edwards, Betty Francisco as Maizic, and the 'Broadway Revue," perhaps the most beautiful chorus ever assembled even in Hollywood. Good supports are also screened, and some excellent music is supplied by the orchestra, under Mr. L. D. Austin