“NEW YORK NIGHTS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 13

“NEW YORK NIGHTS”

COMING TO THE MAJESTIC , U entire back-stage section of • mighty modern theatre, reinforced ’ ® n cretc pillars and pilasters, had ip., constructed on one of the United Thai s °und stages to accommodate s ® hundred girls used in the musical • w sequences of Norma Talmadge’s York Nights,” which is coming JJTJY to the Majestic Theatre, plywood’s shapeliest and smallest sxn!’ most of them with - actual revue I ‘^. ne hce, were selected by director •i«i * Milestone. Larger and heavier tound places in the “beef trust” unkind name for the A tf r chorus{ girl. ttom Uxn ker of unusual camera shots a r [r an altitude of 30ft catch the > i nf as they dance and sing on their jßfe ce( * staßea roia opposite Miss Talmadge in actw < ich demands the extreme in he ro nf !u Gilbert Roland, the romantic kol a the star’s past three successes. Sin-Htt lm P er sonates the carefree, Talm a i n *\ s °ngster husband to Miss Broalf, H s depiction of a typical Uh^ ay Chorine. nhowii i as a hard-boiled Mary Doran as a back-soid-digger complete the cast.