THEATRE ROYAL.
NEW PROGRAMME TO-MORROW.
To-morrow, for three days only to enable the change date to get back to Saturdays the J. 0. Williamson Company will screen "The Woman Racket," Metro-Goidwyn-Mayer's all-talking picturp of New York nig life, with Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet in the featured roles. The new P' ! J. y , . drama of night clubs and gangster life, Moore as a policeman and Miss Sweet as night club hostess. Glittering ba lets in spectacular night club scenes,and I liltiniS " * number* are contrasted with the gnng _ world ruliug the night clubs from tho background. The play revolves round tho love of tho night club girl end tho officer. 1 0 raids, gangster battles, and other incidents mako up the, exciting story. £he cast ® notable one, including Sally Starr, a M-6 M. "discovery," and Robert Agnew, as youthful cabaret entertainers, and John Milian, of "Unholy Night" and Speedway," fiß tho gangster chiof. Miss oweet, who began lier career as a dancer Gertrude Hoffman, sings several song nits during the cabaret sequences, and Miss btarr and Agnew present an entertaining act wun a ballet trained by Sammy Lee. 4 Coming on Saturday next is an extra big special attraction entitled "Chasing Rainbows, 11 with the same cast as "Tho Hollywood Revue" and "Tho Broadway Melody. "Chasing Rainbows" contains beautiful technicolour scenes and new and popular song hits. "Chasing Rainbows" will be followed by what is claimed to be England s greatest picture to date, "Rookery Nook,* Ben Travers's famous novel in screen form.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19974, 8 July 1930, Page 5
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