DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

"Broadway," the all-talkiiiK, singing, and dancing production, is now In its second week at the De Luxe Theatre. The characterisations of the play, as enacted by Glenn Tryon as Boy Lane, and Merna Kennedy as Billie Moore, the dancing team; Evelyn Brent as Pearl, Thomas Jackson as Dan Si' Corn, Robert Ellu as Steve Crandall Paul Porcasi as Nick the night club proprietor, and Otis Harlan as Porky, one of the gangsters— for comedy purposes only—are all outstanding. Altogether, "Broadway" Is excellent entertainment, absorbing m story, vivid in characterisation, superb In its musical and colour effects. In the final scene the Paradise Club and everything in it, including tho revue girls and their elaborate costumes, are shown In full technicolour, and shows what can be achieved by the screen In combination with sound and colour photography. Good supports are also screened, and some delightful music is supplied bythe orchestra, under Mr. L. D. Austin. Syncopation," a melodious, tuneful snrltrMly, sparkling film music extravaganza opens a week's season In Wellington with next Friday's presentation at the De Luxe Theatre Here also is a moving romance. It is the tale of a Pair of wedded "hoofers," the team of and Bobby Wartson Pla who "have""" 11 Benne" the small time. . Famo^and for Vtune eunexpei c:tedlEhte corned them,',' auti wl«' wealth and white on^nrdrnceTofd^h.^and iSS^.SS ncr to the celebrated Maurice, is excellent Thß cast includes, among others, lan Hunter Mor ton Downey. Osgood Perkins, Mackenzie Ward Veree, Teasdalc, and Dorothy Lee