ST. JAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 17

ST. JAMES

“SALLY” ON FRIDAY Only two more days remain of the Auckland season of “Rookery Nook,” the all-British comedy, which has so thoroughly delighted audiences at the St. James Theatre. “Sally,” Marilyn Miller’s first motion picture, which comes to the St. James on Friday, is made entirely in technicolour, showing the natural colours of costumes, settings and other spectacular effects. The picture has been adapted from Miss Miller’s greatest stage success, and is an all-dialogue production with singing and dancing on the most lavish scale ever attempted on the screen. An all-star supporting cast is seen with Miss Miller. Pert Kelton. who played in Ziegfeld’s “Rio Rita,” Is the ingenue lead and Alexander Gray, the musical comedy favourite, who sang in “The Desert Song,” appears in the romantic lead. Joe E. Brown, Ford Sterling and T. Roy Barnes are the chief comedians in the gay and rollicking story of a grand duke who becomes a waiter and a humble waitress who becomes a stage star. John Francis Dillon directed “Sally,” which was adapted for the screen by Waldemar Young from the musical comedy by Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern. The best remembered melodies of the original stage production are heard, as well as additional numbers especially written for “Sally” on the screen. The famous Albertina Rasch dancers appear in the ensemble numbers, and a company of more than 100 is seen in support of the star. “Sally,” which broke theatrical records in every large city in America when presented as a stage musical comedy, is also breaking box office records as a picture, and has already established Marilyn Miller as a screen star of the first rank. It is a First National and Vitaphone picture. New talkie shorts will be shown on the same programme.