PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 14

PLAZA THEATRE.

Shirley Temple.

Shirley Temple always turns in a fine performance, but in "Little Miss Broadway," which opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre, she excels anything she has done in the past. The grand group of troupers which aids and abets Miss Temple is headed by that scintillating stepper, George Murphy, the irrepressible Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks, and Edna Mac Oliver, the popular, prim, and prudish grande dame of fihndom. To make this the musical thrill hit of the year six new Bullock and Spina melodies radiate from the romance, and the selectors can choose from "Be Optimistic," We Should be Together," "If All the World Were Paper," "Swing Me an1 Old-fash-ioned Song," "How Can I thank You,' and "Little Miss Broadway," the title song. The film 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 Mac Oliver, complains and threatens to close the hotel. George Murphy, her nephew, intercedes, and while he wins nothing but enmity from his prim aunt, at least he wins, the favour of fair Phyllis. Led by Shirley, 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 (Honey Chile) Wilder, and Claude Gillingwater, sen., have an active part. "Little Miss Broadway, under the personal supervision of Darryl F. Zanuck, was directed by Irving Cummings, with David Hampstead as associate producer.