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Show "The Broadway Melody" Coming To Paramount, Provo The first talking picture to launch specially composed musical song hits for the screen, just as they are launch ed 'to fame in stage musical comedies, opens at ' the Paramount Theatre Saturday, April 20th, when "The' Broadway Melody," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's spectacular all-talking, all-singing, all-singing, all-dancing romance has its first showing in Provo. The new picture, in which gorgeous gorge-ous stage spectacles, ballets and song ensembles are interspersed with a vivid drama of life among the show folk behind the scenes, has special song hits, including "Broadway Melody," "The Love Boat," "You Were Meant for Me," "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and others specially concocted for the play by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, celebrated composers of "The Doll Dance." Anita Page and Bessie Love appear ap-pear as a "sister act," and Charles King, Broadway musical comedy star Is the hero. The cast includes Jed Proii'ty, Kenneth Thomson, Edward Dillon, Mary Doran, j. Emmett Beck, Marshall Ruth, Drew Demarest and other celebrities of stage and screen. Harry Beaumont, famous director of "Our Dancing Daughters," "Babbitt" "Bab-bitt" and other screen hits, and a former famous stage actor, directed the new picture. The most spectacular stage scenes Include the ballet and song ensemble, "Wedding of the Painted Doll," in natural colors, and the huge "Love Boat" scene with its great silver ship, specially designed by Cedric Gibbons. The theme abounds in humor, pathos and romance and is as dramatic as it is spectacular. |