THE TALKIES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5502, 18 November 1929, Page 2

THE TALKIES.

BROADWAY MELODY. Musical comedy and vaudeville dancers, recruited from stage shows in New York and the Pacific Coast, have their innings in the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing musical comedy of the screen, “The Broadway Melody,” which will commence a fournights’ season at the Aurora Theatre, Paeroa, on Tuesday evening. Ballets, song ensembles, and other brilliant acts figure in the theatre scenes in this vivid drama of back-stage life. Among the dancing stars are Alice Weaver, New York danseuse, Fletcher Norton, known on the stage as the world’s greatest soft shoe dancer, and many others. Anita Page, Bessie Love, and Charles King, former New York musical comedy star, head the cast in this picture, for which special music and lyrics were produced. The new picture is a vivid romance with Miss Page and Miss Love playing a “sister act” of the stage. They bring their act to Broadway and there it fails. One finds happiness and love, winning the man of her heart. The other, though she loses her fiance, philosophically shrugs her shoulders and goes on with her act somewhere out in the “sticks.” The cast includes Jed Proutly, Kenneth Thomson, Edward Dillon, Mary Doran, Eddie Kane, J. Emmett Beck, Marshall Ruth, Drew Demarest, and others of note.