MAJESTIC THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“BROADWAY”, TO-DAY

TALKING, SINGING, BANGING SPECIAL.

A ton-price Broadway revue and a New York play hit rolled into one at tho price of a motion picture — such is “Broadway.” the Universal swber talk'ng and singing production which opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre. After seeing the him it. is easy to believe that Carl Laemmle, .It./ spent £,?W 030 to make it. “Broadway,” to begin with, was a sensational play and the action has beery faithfully reproduced in the picture, not only with, frill dialogue, but with two •outstanding characters of the original production playing the parts which--.'they - made famous throughout the country. In addition, everything which could .not be shown on 1 the stage has been added to the picture; all the exterior scenes which so, materially enhance the vivid drama of the storv and, more notably still, the Paradise Night Club itself, around which revolved' so much ot the art.ion. but which could only he spoken of, not seen, on the stage. The characterisations of thp play as, enacted by. G-lori Try on as Boy Lane, Merna Kennedy as Billie Moore, the, “hoofer” team Evelyn. Brent as Pearl; Thomas Jackson as Dan McCorn, Robert Ellis ns Steve Crandall, Paul Poroasi as Niclv the night club proprietor. and ’Otis Harlan as .Porky, one .of .the gangsters—for comedy purposes only.—are all outstanding. Altogether, “Broadway” is entertainment in a superlative degree—absorbing in storv,. vivid in charartersaBon. guperb in its musical and-color effects.-- In the final scene the Paradise club'.and -everything in it, including the revue girls and their elaborate costurnes, are shown in lull leehhicolor. The picture is remarkably, free from, .the mechanical and reproduction defects usually associated with an all-sound feature. Some splendid 1 Abort' all-talking subjects accompany this mammoth feature, making an entertainment that no one should’miss. ' These latter include “The Second Rugby lest, George Sidnev in the all-talking comedv L'ohef) at 1 the Telephone,” and Mickey the Mouse m his latest cartoon. “The Haunted' House.” ••• Reservation ot sekth-at Tattersall and Bavly s is advisable' j ' •