“BROADWAY BABIES” AT GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 872, 16 January 1930, Page 15

“BROADWAY BABIES” AT GRAND

Life behind the scenes of a Broadway, New York, chorus, in a theatrical boarding house and on the Great White Way vies for your interest with underworld and gang war thrills in “Broadway Babies,” at the Grand Theatre at the head of an all-talking programme. “Broadway Babies” is an all-talking and singing Vitaphone picture starring that dynamic little new lure of the screen, Alice White. With her as chorus mates and room mates are Sally Eilers and Marion Byron, two highsteppers of fllmdom. Charles Relaney is the hero, and a trio of famous tough “eggs,” Fred Kohler, Louis Natheaux and Maurice Black, are the gangsters. Jocelyn Lee leads off the charms of a big chorus seen intimately in practice, in the dressing rooms, at home and before the “bald-headed row.” Roland Young, stage star, who was j brought from New .York to play in ■ “Unholy Night,” Lionel Barrymore’s I recent mystery production, has been signed under a long-term contract by M.-G.-M. His first role under his new contract will be that of the major in “The Bugle Sounds,” George Hill’s forthcoming talking drama of the French Foreign Legion in which Ernest Torrence and Wallace Beery are to be eo-featured.