ROXY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 17

ROXY

“SYNCOPATION” \ few years ago four Pennsylvania State college boys, Fred and Tom Waring Fred Puck and “Poley McClmtock, got together and learned a few dance numbers. They played two banjos, a piano and drums at their first dance, and displayed such a pleasingly original style of dance music that tliis first engagement led to calls for many others. . Such was the humble beginning of the now famous “Waring s Pennsylvanians,’ in the all-talker ‘‘Syncopation ” the RKO musicomcdy extravaStnza continues to deiight natrons at the Roxy Theatre. For seven years they have travelled across America playing record-break-fng engagements in the large motion picture houses. In addition to these appearances they have played m London Berlin and Paris, and when signed up to Play for ‘Syncopation they were making New York a merger place to live in by their head-lined ilatnre act in “Hello Yourself, the Oeorgo Choos musical comedy at the C Th l e°se T ”pePPy- musicians play nine selecturns ‘ranging from the theme song “I’ll Always Be In Love With You,’’ by Sammy Stept, to Victor Her- , »-ca-ppt Mvstery of Life. Others Aula cataJe Barbara Bennett Bobby Watson lan Hunter, Morton Downey, Osgood Perkins, Mackenzie ’Ward, Verree Teasdale and Dorothy Dee Peppy jazz, golden song, snapp stepping and a heart-clutching love Itovy, are promised for patrons of the Roxy Theatre in this film ° pe f e “ a Broadway lives and loves, first of the radio pictures released by IAU. Fight beautiful girls, selected as perfect romantic types, form part of Jeannette MacDonald’s retinue in Franc^played 1 by -Miss MacDonald.