“BROADWAY NIGHTS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 15

“BROADWAY NIGHTS”

PRINCESS TO-MORROW “Broadway Nights,” Robert Kane’s fast-moving and colourful film of theatre and night club life in a city where the “dawn comes up like thunder,” will be the attraction at the Princess Theatre to-morrow, with Lois Wilson heading a cast of Broadway celebrities through the peppy piece. How an ambitious amateur served an apprenticeship in vaudeville, blossomed "tfA Broadway in the gayest* night club of the street, and finally became the toast of the town as the star of a big musical revue, serves as the strong plot against which are set colourful backgrounds of Manhattan atmosphere. Backstage shots peeps into the underworld and a strong theme of “mother love” are among the highlights of the film. Lois Wilson, presenting a brand new characterisation, as a jazz singing chorus girl, is the star of the hit with Philip Strange, Louis John Bartels and Sam Hardy heading the supporting cast. Two beauties, Barbara Stanwick and June Collyer. now under contract to Kane, make their film debuts in the picture which boasts of a score of Broadway celebrities, including “Bunny” W r eldon, Tammany Young and Lillian Lorraine,