NEW REGENT
“BROADWAY MELODY” Bessie Love, pertest of picture players, has the leading feminine role with Anita Page, in “ The Broadway Melody,” the New Regent Theatre’s special attraction. The male love interest is supplied by Charles King, a New York musical comedy recruit. If "What's in a name?” is to be the query, “The Broadway Melody” has a list of “celebs” connected with it that resembles a gathering at a debutante’s coming-out party. The story employs Broadway backstage as fascinating settings, and, by the way, if you are fond of theme songs, there are three of them in this picture. There are sequences done in technicolour, and plenty of glorified girls are brought in to add pep and zest to the chorus numbers. Indeed, If proper attention to production counts for anything, “The Broadway Melody” is destined to be the biggest hit of the cinema season. Miss Page and Miss Love portray the roles of sisters in a small town “sister act,” with which they try to crash Broadway, but fail. The Regent’s programme also includes several shorter talkies, and musical selections on the Wurlitzer by Mr. Arthur Frost.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 15
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189NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 15
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