'SYNCOPATION’-ALL TALKIE
BRIGHT MUSICAL ATTRACTION FOR REGENT ‘ Syncopation,’ a melodious, tuneful, sprightly, sparkling film music extravaganza, opens a week’s season in ■ Dunedin with next Friday’s presentation at the Regent Theatre. Here also is a moving romance. It is the tale of a pair of wedded “hoofers,” the team of Sloane and Darrel, played by Barbara Bennett and Bobby Watson, who have been playing the small time. Fame and fortune unexpectedly smile upon them, and with wealth, and white lights come those differences that break hearts and burst wedlocks. Villainy stalks the wife and sorrow visits' the, pathetic heartbroken when wifie , tajies her departure: but it. all comes put in the wash/with, Sloane, and Darrel eventu ally in each other’s arms. Much of the action, takes place in a cabaret where song and dance hold. forth, and Fred Waring’s famed Pennsylvanians jazz forth nine smashing new dance melodies Haunting, melodies are sung by Morton Downey, and the dancing of Barbara Bennett, beautiful daughter of the famed Richard Bennett,, and once dancing, partner to the , celebrated Maurice, is excellent..
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Evening Star, Issue 20483, 14 May 1930, Page 7
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