Pleasant Grove Review | 1929-07-27 | Page 6 | "The Broadway Melody" is Last Word in Efforts toward Perfection

o "The Broadway Melody" Is Last Word In Efforts Toward Perfection "Watch your microtones." This is the rule responsible for the amazing reproduction of voices in dialogue dia-logue and spectacular song ensembles in "The Broadway Melody", Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's great all-talking, all-singing and all-dancing production produc-tion which will open at the Cameo Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Tues-day, July 28, 29 and 30- Experts say that the reproduction of sound in the new picture is so nearly perfect that it is as far ahead of ordinary talking pictures as they are ahead of the old silent form. Every tone was measured in microtones" mi-crotones" or, in other words, balanced bal-anced in terms of units so small that they were measured, and hardly audible audi-ble to the human ear. Every musical instrument in the big orchestra was so balanced, with painstaking exact- ness, in the show scenes. The new picture is the screen's first big musical comedy, with special song hits specially composed for it just as in a stage show. Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, famous composer of "The Doll Dance", composed the numbers, including the theme song, "Broadway Melody," and "You Were Meant for Me," "The Love Boat," "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and others. Spectacular stage acts, badlets and ensembles, some in natural natu-ral color, embellish this vivid drama of back-stage theatre life on Broad way. Anita Page, Bessie Love, Crarles King, noted New York musical comedy come-dy star, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Thom-son, Edwartl Dillon, Mary Dora, Eddie Kane, J. Emmett Beck, Marshall Ruth, Drew Demarest and others of note are in the cast.