AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY 3 PICTURES. T ___ “THE BROADWAY MELODY.” ALL TALKING, SINGING, AND DANCING TO-NIGHT. 'The first talking picture to launch specially composed musical song hits for the screen., just as they are i launched to ,fame in stage musical / cbinedies, opens at the Princess to-night, when “The Broadway Melody,” Metro-Goildwyn-Mayer’s spectacular all-talking, all-singing, alldancing romance, has its first show-, ing in Hokitika. The new picture, in which gorgeous stage spectacles, ballets and song ensembles are interspersed with a vivid drama of life among the show folk behind the scenes, has .special song hits, including “Broadway Melody,” “The Love Boat,” “You Were Meant for Me,” “The Wedding-of the Painted Doll,”, and others <• speed ally concocted for the play by Arthur. Freed. and Nacio • Herb Brown, celebrated composers of ‘‘The Doll.. Dance.’’ /-Anita‘ Page : and Bessie Love appear 'as a'“sister act,” and Charles King,- Broadway musical comedy star, 1 is the hero. The cast includes Jed Prouty, ; Kenneth • Thomson, Edward Dillon, Moran Doran, 0. Ehimett Beck, Marshall , Ruth, Drew Demarest and other celebrities of stageand ' screen. Harry Beaumont, famous ‘ director of l ■ “Our Dancing Daughters,” “Babbitt” anld other ' screen hits, and a former- famous stage actor,' directed the new picture from an original’ by Edmund Goulding, scenarised iby Sarah Y. Mason. Norman Houston and James Gleason, of- “Is Zat So,” and “The Shannons of Broadway” fame, contributed the brilliant dialogue. The .most spectacular stage scenes include the ballet and song ensemble, “The Wedding of the Painted Doll,” in natural col-, ours, and the huge “Love . Boat” scene . with its : great silver . ship, •-v,/ especially designed ■ iby Cedric Gibbous. Th.e theme’ abounds in humour,, path,os.; and: ’romance,, and' -is as dramatic &Sjijitj,is; /spectacular*; \ . Special short Talkies will also be shpwh.i'./■.: '• .; .; ■ ..Specisil prices; Circle, 3s 3d;.Stalls, 2s; ; Chii(lreiv;.'(under 12) downstairs, Is. Reserve, at; Miss Mclntosh’s.