STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“LITTLE MISS BROADWAY." Shirley Temple always turns in a fine performance—but this time she gives you the time of your life. She's a Shirley of surprises surrounded bysinging, dancing, romancing, fun making show people. "Little Miss Broadway,” which opens tomorrow at the State Theatre is the musical thing to thrill you. The group of troupers which aids and abets Shirley Temple is headed by George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks and Edna Mae Oliver. To make this a happy musical thrill, six new melodies radiate from the romance. The story is about a little miss who lives in a vaudeville hotel with her foster family, Edward Ellis and Phyllis Brooks. When Jimmy Durante’s jazz band gets too loud in its rehearsals, the wealthy neighbour, Edna Mae Oliver complains and threatens to close the hotel. George Murphy, her nephew intercedes —and while he wins nothing but enmity from his prim aunt, he wins the favour of fair Phyllis. Led by Shirley Temple everything ends as it should —especially after Shirley convinces an austere judge that he should permit the actors to stage their show in the courtroom. George Barbier, Edward Ellis, Jane Darwell, El Brendel, Donald Meek. Patricia Wilder and Claude Gillingwater Senr. have an active part in the film.