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PAGE NINE THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1930 LN : Interesting Pen Impres- | sions of the Coming » Attractions on ... THE LOCAL SCREEN Who's Who & What': What in the Amuse. ment World ---- en tap at mt = Lavish Night Club Set Designed For "Broadway" | Broadway has moved West. Broad- way in all its fascination and gaiety, in all its abandon and lavish has been moved Jo Hollywood, 'The street that is paved with tinsel ind trodden by - jeweled heels, the multi-hued lights that chase cach other in a mil- lion f; tic patterns against a sky- scape of toy: balloons, the kaleido- scope of champagne bubbles in a pa- per party hat, has been reproduced for the screen. ! At Universal City, on the biggest stage ever constructed, there was built for "Broadway," the Carl Laem- mle, Jr, all-talking super-production coming to the New Martin Theatre, a set fully worthy of the multitude of "butter-and-egg" men who scatter their largesse down the Milky Way. The super-superlative of this set is the Paradise Night Club, a true example of cubistic art and also an eye-opener even to these Hollywood extravaganzists who immerse them. selves o'mornings in platinum bawth- tubs, But not all is iridescent froth even on Broadway. Beneath the floating bubbles is the vortex that makes them rise, and in "Broadway," the stage success which ran in New York for 90 consecutive weeks, this vortex alone provides the entire action of the play. And the Paradise Night Club was spoken of only, not seen at all, for the one back-stage scene wis the single setting of the stage pro- duction. Price for Script When Carl Laemmie, Jr. bought the screen and dialogue rights to the play for the record sum of $275,000, he set about producing the picture uot only with all the dramatic in. tensity of the play, but also with all the distinctive, pleasure-mad atmos- phere ..ihch makes Broadway glitter with the brilliance of a diamond, and with a; brilliancy as hard. In return for his money, the young producer got uxactly what he had bonght--the manuscript of the play. Here was the tense drama of gang. ster life in New York, interw.v:n with the tender love theme of two youngsters just startin gout in the show business. It was the nucleus Jf a picture, but onyl the nucleus. For the $1,500,000 puotop.uy which he en- visioned, young Laemmle had to take "Droadway" and dress it in its show clothes; breathe into it, through the medium of the camera, the tinsel and the laughter, the toy balloons and the champagne bubbles, Big New Stage Built The first step toward the complet- ed picture was the construction of the magnificent sound-proof stage up on: which it was filmed. While this building, which is 340 feet long by 150 feet wide by 70 feet high was be- ing . crected, another experiment which Laemmle had conceived was being carried cut. Dr. Paul Fejos, the young director who recently scor- ediso signally with "The Last Mom- ent," was chosen to make the pic- ture and was sent to Chicago and New York to study gangster and cafe life in its native habitats, Dr. Fejos is a native of Hungary, now in his early thirties. From studying medicine in Budapest he be- ------------ Scenes from T _to the Local Screens Next TTT he Feature Pictures' Coming | | Week = TOP--The immense Paradise Night Club in full swing as shown in "Broadway." Glenn Tryon the "Hoofer" is leading the chorus. Upper Left-- Thomas Jackson and Fvelyn Brent; Upper Rithte--Gcun Tryon and Merna Kennedy. Below--Merna Kennedy and Thomas Jackson in "Broad. way' Upper Extreme Right Glenn Tryon and Thomas Jackson in "Broadway." Ex treme lower right, Shows Lee Tracy in a scene from "Big Time." Centre, Evelyn Brent in "Broadway." cane director of the Petite Modul Theatre in Paris, and then came to America, Here, before going to Hol-{ ____ Iy wood, he was for thrce years al staff bacteriologist at the Roekielle r| design, was handed Institute But even 'after Fej made "the Last Moment" almost : OO' other producer would have cho s most any other director who v American to make such a repres ative pict cc of American lifc as 's}n "Broadway." { The cafe complete with all its fur- | done, nishings, drapery, and even the ching | Ther and cutlery in the same modernistic | Broadway" sct 4,000,000 watts « $ ha 1 Danny Hall,~the designer, and > all read raves, the hight |* suspended «abo | nlay compared to carrying a "load" oi f When it is realized cach one' of the 5,000-wat spots', of whicir there were nearly | two hundred above the set, would | erve as the scarchlight for a | p, 1t can be readily seer il light problem of f 70,000 population would be lighting sh tot "Broadway" i7 if SESEER iL [-} TF - $ "ee Tracy" Fame in His Hoofer Time of Love - Time of Laughs - Time of Your Life - "Big Time" Lee Tracy And Other Well Known Stars Drama of Back Stage Life in Hollywood Studios The road to success was open to him yet he proved to be only another small (ime % s Tor Biy Time honors, with in a Added STUDIO STUNTS HODGE - PODGE fh ss) i, iris MAE CLARKE FOR OUTDOOR | 7; SPORTS | | Me | | Mac Clarke | but she describe { as her hobby. | Noose" to pl: | M wietone all | stage life, i 1 "Big Time" Is Headliner Today at The Regent "Big Time!" the dream of that great army of vaudevillians strug- gling on the lesser circuits to achieve the goal of their ambitions . . was once designated as 'variety shows', That was the day when dauce halls and beer gardens with their singing waiters -- a bygone generation which enjoyed free lunch and afforded vig- orous criticism if an act failed to meet with its approval, That was the day when Tony Pastor, at the old Fourteenth Stree: playhousc, B. F, Keith in Boston, Mike Shea at Buffalo, Harris in Pit- teburghl and Poli in New Haven pion~ cered, Eventually higher grade «ci | vaudeville took its place and wus known as Keith Vaudeville and there { were two shows a with rescrved jscats. Then ca the small time vaudeville, as the three shows a day | were termed, with four, six or eight f on Sundays and Saturdays, depend- {ing on the volume of patronage. r'o designate the difference, "Big Time" came into being, not alome to ¢Jassify, but as a sop to the | ter actor who disdained land who refused to accept | that called for more than two sh [a day, seven days a week | With the advent of the vaudefilm hows, a combi 0 { pi | vaudeville, " radually dis- {appeared, though there are, perhaps, half a dozen tueatres in tne Uni | States still adherring to the i two show a day big time polic { In the Fox Movietone all talking { drarha of hack stage lite, "Big ime," { Lee Tracy enacts the rolc of 'a small { time hofer who is obsessed with th~ idea that he is the greatest actor in vaudeville, but who finally is | much needed lesson in humility. ¢ | Clarke' portrays the rale o | he marries and afterward or another partner, f these troupers are fromi Front ying in "The Noose" sed to portray her rd, celebrated come- 1d, France and the : hin Fetchit, inim- colored comedian and Jose= | phine Dunn are prominently cast. The picture was directed by Ken- ncth Hawks with A. H. Van Buren standing by as stage director. It will be the attraction at the Regeit Theatre opening today and will also play Monday and Tuesday. . Marks First ® $1,000,000 All-Talking ' Picture 2. 9266893 CS 20009389 ® YIIILIXL | C2663 066 Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Mer- na Kennedy, T. E. Jackson, Otis Harlan, Robert Ellis, Paul Porcasi, Leslie Fenton, George Ovey. : Drama that fairly leaps from the screen -- in the ONE and ONLY "Broadway." The most widely imitated play ever pictured! Produced for your amazement on the colossal scale de- served only by the greatest modern melodrama ever conceived. With the ORIGINAL play dialog; with songs you'll never forget; with the biggest sets ever constructed; the most gorgeous dance numbers ever staged, pictured in natural colors; the most distinguished cast ever assembled. No matter what you are, where you've been, or what you've seen, The Stage Play held them breath- less on Broadway for two years -- Universal's Broadway is even a Bigger Sensation on the Screen than it was on the stage. Welcomes You to See The COMING MONDAY FOR 3 DAYS TO THE NEW MARTIN THEATRE SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTIONS