GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 649, 29 September 1933, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Erich von Stroheim's "Walking Down Broadway," Fox production featuring Jamts Dunn and Boots Mall-ory, opeined last night at the Grand Theatre. From the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil, along New York's Great .White • Way ,tKe camera roams. Towering buildings, massed throngs, the cruel, ruthless indifference of the giant city ,are caught by the lens. - All this in contrast to the five human beings who are pictured struggling yearningly toward their dtsires. /Basically, the drama reveals the romance of a small-town boy and girl drawn together by mutual loneliness in the metropolis. More broadly, it pictures the effect this love has on their immediate surroundings, their friends, their lives. Yon Stroheim is credited with writing the film treatment and dirceting it from Dawn Powell's play of the same name. James-Dumq whose first screen. success ovas as a Broadway character in "Bad Girl," is featured opposite a new screcn find, Boots Mlallory, Von Stroheim's own discovery for the feminine lead. Miss- Mallory is an ash-blonde, blue-eyed, Southern heauty who typifies the girl of innocence of which the drama treats. Chief in support are Zasu Pitts, seen as the homely, pathetic, lonely girl friend of the heroine; Minna Gombell as their hard, enamelled, wisecracking, but generous-hearted neighbour, and Terrance Ray, Dunn's cheap, smart-aleck rooiaa-mate whose constant boast is that he was born on Broadway and that the Street can nevcr make a sucker out of him.