PRINCESS
“BROADWAY NIGHTS” “Broadway Nights/’ Robert Kane’s fast moving and colourful film of theatre and night club life in the city where the “dawn comes up like thun-
der,” will be the attraction at the Princess Theatre this 'week, with Lois Wilson heading a cast of Broadway celebrities through the piece. How an ambitious amateur served an apprenticeship in vaudeville, blossomed cfn Broadway in the gayest nightclub of the street, ind 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 witfh 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” Weldon, Tammany Young and Lillian Lorraine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 192, 3 November 1927, Page 18
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183PRINCESS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 192, 3 November 1927, Page 18
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