“BROADWAY MELODY”
SUPER TALKIE FOR NEW REGENT Musical comedy through the world can have its daring dancers and soothing syncopation, but it is doubtful if any show has ever produced a more glorious galaxy of beautiful chorus girls than are to be seen in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s all-talking, singing and dancing picture, “The Broadway Melody,” coming to the New Regent Theatre next Saturday. A bevy of 60 beautiful sirens weavmg to and fro to the rhythmic strains of specially written musical numbers will be seen and heard in one sequence, photographed in technicolour, while the revue proper displays a troupe of specialty dancers who display for the first time the “Tampa Step” created by the well-known George Cunningham, originator of “off beat” rhythm in stage dancing. Anita Page and Bessie Love appear
as sisters in a cleverly composed “sister act” which is a complete flop when given a tryout at dress rehearsal. Charles King, celebrated Broadway baritone and musical comedy star, is seen in the male lead as a small town song-and-dance man, who eventually falls in
love with the younger sister. Miss Love, as the elder sister, is forced to content herself with pairing up with a former antagonist from the chorus, in order to carry on with the act. The entire production is interspersed with novelty musical numbers, one of th& musical highlights coming from the true conception of a popular song publisher’s office.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 16
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