DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

"Broadway," the all-talking, singing, and dancing picture, is the feature at the Do Luxe Theatre. . The story of "Broadway" contrasts the romance of a boy and a girl, entertainers In New. York's pleasure whirl, against the drama- pi. the. underworld. The love of Roy lane and Billie Moore, played by Glenn Tryon and Myrna. Kennedy, is threatened by the sinister shadow of Steve Crandall, the "liquor 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, the "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 tho climax which delighted New York for ninety consecutive weeks. Pearl' 3 role is enacted by Evelyn Brent, and botli Thomas Jackson and Paul Porcasi, who play the detective and the night-club proprietor respectively, create for the screen tho same characterisations which.they played throughout the New York stage run. Besides the leading players already enumerated, the cast of "Broadway" includes Otis Harlau, one of the most beloved character comedians on the screen, .Marion Lord, as Lil, "queen of the night-*."clubs," Leslie Fehton as "Scar" Edwardsiyßetty Francisco as Maizie, and . the "Broadway~Revue"r'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.