Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929

Queen of the Night Clubs (Warner). Although Broadway night clubs have served as a locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be...

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