Paramount Around the World (1927)

the; foreign! legion! pledge Paramount Theatre, New York, In First Year Grosses $3,579,889 FRED LANGE, LEADER OF “LOS GAUCHOS” BRINGS HIS BOLOS TO NEW YORK FRED W. LANGE In ihe Home Office apiiarently for the purpose of attaching a shipping tag onto the J )esk that he thinks the Argentina Division has won, Gene r a 1 M a n a g e r Fred \V. Lange has since had a lot to say ahout the success of the lioys and girls of his I )i\ ision since his a r r i \ a 1 here a coui)le of weeks ago. Looking so physically perfect that the Argentina government ought to pay him a couple of thousand pesos a week just for saying that he is from Argentina, Fred had much to tell of the spiri of his Legionnaires down there. They're a right peppy hunch, he asserts, and jioints to the success of "Beau Geste” and a great many other achievements to prove it. He gave great praise, too, to the manner in which their house organ, “Adelante Decima” reflects the spirit of the Division, and in this respect he paid tribute to the editorship of Air. Fox. One day after his arrival (maybe it was 'I'hanksgiving Day), he was given a pre-release ])eep at the figures which are printed on Page 5 — and of course if you have any imagination you can guess what his comments were. You’re right ! He again expressed the fact that Argentina will win Air. Zukor’s Desk; and wdien shown that Italy still had a lead of six points he gave \ent to something in Spanish which, for all we know, maybe isn’t quite translatable after all. At all events, he says, Argentina stands at the head of the list alphabetically, and he intends seeing that it remains there resultfully. “WINGS” WILL RUN A LONG WHILE IN CHICAGO Originally scheduled for a run cf 8 weeks in Chicago, at the Erlanger Theatre (which has never before in its history played a motion picture), “Wings” is now to have its season extended for an indefinite run. In addition to being the first motion picture ever to be shown at the Erlanger, “Wings” is positively the first motion picture ever to play Chicago at a $2 top. And Chicago is rated as being excessively “hard-boiled” towards road shows. A third U. S. road show season opens at the Aldine Theatre, Philadelphia, on December Second. KENNEBECK EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA Following a visit to ten days to the Home Office, John E. Kennebeck, Sales Promotion Alanager of Division Two, has returned to his home town of Omaha, Nebraska, to spend a few' w'eeks with his folks before sailing back to Australia. His less than tw'o weeks in Home Office W'ere crowded with conferences with Air. Seidelman, viewdng the principal films on Broadway, and renew'ing a host of friendships with associates of the days when he was a Domestic Paramounteer. Airs. Kennebeck visited New York with him. Towards the end of the month, accompanied by their six-months old baby, they will sail from San Francisco for Australia, via Honolulu, Pago Pago and .Suva. ^ • THICK AND FAST “CHANG” ^ RECORDS FLY ’ • .Away Ijack at the end of October, 1 I German records w'ere being pounded to * I pieces under the mighty onslaught of ♦ • Paramount’s supreme jungle melodrama, j ^ Which is one reason why Air. Ike Blu ’ i menthal cabled to Mr. Seidelman on Oc t T tober 29th as follow's: “‘Chang’ broke j ^ house record Hamburg. Going big ev j erywhere. Regards.” | ♦J* ••• — -♦ ••• ••• -■ HOW RICHARD DIX WON THE AUSTRALIAN POPULARITY CONTEST In last month’s issue there was cabled news to the effect that Richard Di.x had topped the poll in a popularity contest conducted by a leading Melbourne (.Australia) newspaper. W'e are now' able to give the actual voting in the contest, and to so show that Paramount stars occupied seven places of the tw'enty-four allocated. These w'ere the figures: Richard Dix (1st.) 102,667 votes, Harold Lloyd (2nd.) 89,071; Bebe Daniels, 75,173; Adolphe Menjou, 66,044; Pola Negri, 53,050; Wallace Beery, 48,141; Clara Bow, 47,778. DEUTSCHER FILM IM PARAMOUNT THEATER Zum ersten Mai in der Geschichte dcs Paramount Theaters, New York City, war dort ein Deutscher Film die Glanznummer und zwar die Paramount-Llfa Produktion "Der Letzte Walzer," der w'ahrend der Woche des 12. Novembers gespielt w'urde. "Der Letzte W'alzer” fand bei den Kritikern und dem Publikum begeisterte .Aufnahme. Die Woche, wahrend dieser Film vorgefuhrt w'urde, war die letzte Woche des ersten Jahres des Paramount 'I'heaters, da dasselbe am 19. November sein zweites Jahr beginnt. pvw” onyj tn oy'D yDvy7 n ON .iNn:N7 ,“iyoNyo pN ty^Nii [yy PE Not<~i-iN':"yo "ojiNON-iNE,, yroDynp 'h ,iyp:y;yj yy”EN-iD ynTii n px lyay"' nyn ■yj FN Dy FI inyo Pno ■’Fiv o’o pio' oe^'P F pN /'ooyy’t'NE,, Ni'p yoo’pNE n lyENP 'T PE yi"N dJn [yoypN ps oen^one onyF .PN' tyv yovy!^ n pN dfinfd yoDE’''pj:"pE ] MIGHTY FINE OCTOBER ISSUE OF “ADELANTE DECIMA” The regular monthly issue of jiep and punch from Argentina has come to hand in the October issue of “.Adelante Decima,” that si>lendid little magazine issued under the guidance of General Manager Fred \\ . Lange by editor Guillermo S. Fox. Its cartoons are snappy and pungent (we ha\e reproduced one of them on another page), and its declarations of what the .Argentinian Legionnaires are going to do with Air. Zukor’s Desk seem to be just a little more certain than prophecies. In addition, a lot of splendid space is devoted to .Short Features, and there is an e.xcellent leading article hv Air. Lange and an account of the goodwill luncheon tendered the Leader of the Gauchos prior to his departure for New York. We like “Adelante Decima” a great deal, and always look forward to its arrival in Home Office. The Paramount Theatre, at the Crossroads of the World, New York City, rounded out the first year of operations on the evening of Friday, November 18th. The house opened on Friday, November 19th, 1926, and in that period grossed $3,579,889. The record gross for one week goes to “ITderworld” with $81,500 (this total including three midnight showings), while just twenty-four dollars behind it, at the $81,476 mark (and minus any midnight showings), was Pola Negri’s picture, “Hotel Imperial.” Thus on actual screenings , the Negri picture should he acclaimed as the most successful during the prst year of the Paramount' s operations. Bebe Daniels in “She’s A Sheik” started the second year with a highly successful week. IL PALAZZO PARAMOUNT A PARIGI Giovedi 24 novembre fu il giorno d’inaugurazione del Teatro di Variela Paramount a Parigi. Intervenne un brillante gruppo di personalita in vista nel mondo i)olitico, sociale, teatrale e cinematografico. L’evento \enne annunziato dalla stampa ])arigina come un evento di grande significato nella storia teatrale della citta. Fra i rappresentanti della Paramount alia funzione si distinsero i Signori E. E. Shauer, Eugene Znkf)r, Adolphe Osso, .A1 Kaufman, AleKille A. Shauer, John C. Graham nonche molti altri Legionari noti. FOR ROYALTY. When Their Majesties, King Alfonst) and Queen I ictoriu of Spain visited Barcelona on October 21st, the Paramount Legionnaires added some touches of color — and some prominent Paramount Trade Marks — to the Head Office of the Matador Division. In the group on the balcony, Mr. Messeri, managing director, is seventh from the left, and Carl Ponedel is sixth from the left. Page Four