RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM
“SWEET ROSIE O’GRADY” Reminiscent of days before the jazz era—when talking machines were more common than saxophones, the screen version of “Sweet Rosie O’Grady,” a Master Picture release, is showing at the Rialto and Regent Theatres, where the familiar tune of 25 years ago is the piece de resistance of the musical programme. It was indicated last night that youthful feet were tapping to the melody, old as it is, and besides them, the toes of many an elder responded to the lilting song that swept the country 20 years ago the composition, of Maude Nugent, who lives in New York. In fact, the composer herself was responsible for the selection of Shirley Mason to play the title role. Others in the cast are E. Alyn Warren, as ! Uncle Ben Shapiro, the Second Avenue sachem of the three gilded balls; William Conklin, as Brady, the Bowery non: and Cullen Landis, as the Park
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 17
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