AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18140, 14 December 1928, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

PAULINE STARK IN “DANCE MAGIC.” AT THE GRAND. A glamorous, peep behind the scenes in Broadway, and the night life of New York, which carries one from a Fifth Avenue apartment to the East Sidej from tiny night clubs to> the bigges't review on Broadway, was given to the theatre-goers who saw “Dance Alagic,” featuring Pauline Stark, which opened at the Grand last evening. The glitter and the tragedy of Broadway were well portrayed. Pauline Stark takes the part of Jahala, a iascinating witch of Broadway, wm she ttracts and enchants m the gay-jst city in the world, New York. Juiiaia. leaves her small, narrow homo town to become a dancer oil Broadway, but her father, who is a rigid Puritan, considers that dancing is sinluj, anu will not countenance her ambition t go on the stage. In New York she meets Jed Brophy, theatrical producer, and Leach Noreutt, a backer ol shows. The latter falls in love iuth her, but Brophy, by promising to muj-r her a star, hopes to make her his. Brophy, who feels sure of himself, gets rid of Selma, his former sweetheart Leach, however, warns him to keep away from Jalala. The latter visits Brophy at his apartment, to discuss tlm show in which he has promised to star her, and finds him murdered. AA hen she recalls Leach’s throats, she immediately suspects him ol the crime. Leach enters the apartment, and. seeing the body of his rival, makes a confession in which he implicates himself. His confession is repudiated, however, by Selma, the murdered man's former sweetheart, who gives herself up to the police, alter Loach lias undergone a harrowing “third degree’ test at the hands of the police. Jahala returns home, and in a drama! ic scene I in the little Puritan church, denies to 1 the prim New England congregation that she has been guilty of wrong doing. Her sadness has another basis, which is re mowed when Bench, realising that ho is in love with her, conics to claim her. Interesting supports included a lengthy Topical News, and a two-reel eomcilv entitled “Plumb Dumb.”