DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 6

DE LUXE THEATRE.

"Broadway," the all-talking, sincing. and dancing production, is now in its second woek at the De Luxo Theatre. The charactertsatious of the play, .as enacted by Glean Tryon as Roy Lane, and Aierna Kennedy as Billie Moore, the dancing team; Evelyn Brent as Pearl, Thomas Jackson as Dan M'Cprn, Robert Ellis as Steve Crandall, Paul Poroisl 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 in story, vivid In characterisation, superb in Its musical and colour effects. In the tlnal scene the Paradise Club and everything in it, Including the revue girls and their elaborate costumes, aro shown In full technicolour, and shows what can be achieved by the aereen In combination with sound and colour photography. Good supports are also screened, and some delightful music is supplied by the orcbestra, under Mr. L. D. Austin.

"Syncopiajion," which opens next Friday at tlie De Luxe Theatre, contains many musical and singing numbers. "Syncopation" endeavours tv tell the story of a pair of Broadway entertainers, married, and separated by ambition until both arc reawakened in their love for another by the resolving circumstances of the plot. A musical film extravaganza, designed to give the <?ffect of a Broadway operetta. There aro nine jazzy numbers by Warlng's famed Pennsylv.itnians, two song numbers by the Melody Bojis, three haunting sours by Morton Downey, a song by Dorothy Lee, a soprano solo by Cania Zielenska, radio artist, two numbers by a string orchestra, a piano selection by Da-rid Buttolph. "Syncopation" is derived from "Stepping High;" the novel by Gene MarJiey, and whirls tunefully about the careers of the team of Barrel and Sloane, a pair of Broadway dancers, wedded, and striving for Broadway honours. Their vari-colour-ed careers take them £rom the small time haunts to the cabarets and musical. comedy atmosphere of Now York with all the teniptations, heart-breaks, jealousies, fears, and bursting glories of tins world of make-believe. A largo and exceedingly capable cast tills the many subsidiary rolca. Some of the song lilts featured are "Jericho,-" "Do Something," and "I'll Always be in Lowe with You." The presence of Mr. L. D. Austin and his original Orchestra Do Luxe will be an additional feature of great interest.