Paramount International News (1935)

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL VERY GOOD More than 75 per cent of the entire footage of “Peter Ibbetson” has an interpretative musical backgiouncl. The music is magnificent and eei'tainly enhances the delicate beauty of the film. IVhen Jan Kiepura met the press in Hollywood he sang to them as he did in Nezu York. Reporting the event, Lloyd Pantages, Los Angeles columnist , said: “He (Kiepura) turned out to be equally charming off screen as on and, zohat’s more, when he sang three numbers, the house practically collapsed front applause. He’s that good.” In reporting the Dietrich-Cooper picture “Desire” in his weekly communique to Mr. Hicks, Duigi Duraschi has been unable to conceal his tierce enthusiasm for this picture. He has watched it grow from day to day, and then from week to week, viewing every toot of the ‘rashes,’ and on October lath he wrote Mr. Hicks as follows: “Superlatives are the only adjectives I can use in reporting on this picture. When it is completed the boys in the field will really have something to go to town about. It will be a picture which will be used as a yardstick with which to measure screen entertainment for years to come.” MAE “GETS HER MEN” FOR HER PICTURE Mae West has assigned roles in her current Paramount story of torrid action m the frigid North, “Klondike Lou,” to Wladimir Baikoff, husband of her sister, Beverley West, and to Marcel Ventura, Mae’s attache. Each will play his own nationality— Baikoff a Russian nobleman, and Ventura a Spanish count. Others to join the blonde star’s troupe today are Guy D’Ennery, Lawrence Grant and Huntley Gordon. HER NEW BOSS Walter Wanger’s faith in Sylvia Sidney coincides with that of the majority of Paramount’s Legionnaires. She is definitely a favorite throughout the world. So W. W. has placed her under an exclusive contract for the next four yeais, her first picture under this new pact being Wanger’s current technicolor production, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” She has also just finished for this producer “Mary Burns, Fugitive,” which is a Paramount picture and is shown above with her new boss at the party he gave to signalize that film’s completion. ^omMmmtJnkmatbmd Important Paramount Vi Quotations of the Month/^ “We w'ill co-operate with you and give you all the necessary details and information regarding local colour hei-e in the Argentine, so that you will have plenty of mateiial for the third, foiiilh, fifth and sixth installments of ‘The Honor of the Legion,’ since we are certainly making sure that the entire action of the story is motivated by the leadership of Argentina.” — ^John B. Nathan (in a letter to the editor) “There must be some way of catching that Nathan fellow!” — (sgd.) Graham, Schaefer, Kennebeck, York, Ballance, Messeri, Aboat, Day, del Villar, Cochrane, Sussman, Pratchett, Klai-sfeld. “The greatest i)ossession of any great organization is Character. Pai’amount’s greatest possession is Character.” ■ — .Tohn E. Otterson “A preview of ‘Rose of the Rancho’ more than substantiates our publicity department’s claim that Gladys Swarthout’s voice is ‘The Voice of a Thousand Golden Tones’.” — Ernst Lubitsch WANGErS "TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE" FOR PARAMOUNT TO BE ALL-TECHNICOLOR FILM The only other all-Technicolor production to be made in Hollywood during the year is Walter Wanger’s Paramount production, “The Trad of the Lonesome Pine.” For this picture the indefatigable Wanger has all of Technicolor’s equipment tied up on the pine-laden slopes of Big Bear Mountain, where the unit will be situated for the next ten weeks. Following this, interiors will be made in Hollywood. The cast of the picture is headed by Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda and Fred Stone. The director is the very skillful Henry Hathaway who gave us “Bengal L-mcer,” “Peter Ibbetson” and“Now and Forever.” If the lucky star is hovering over Big Bear Mountain — and Mr. Wanger has always been successful in handling stars in the past — then the odds are very considerably in our favor that we will get a great production. "THE CRUSADES" CRUSADING IN GRAND STYLE FOR THE VIKING DIVISION Having conquered Sweden, Cecil B. DeMille’s production of “The Crusades” has swept down on Copenhagen with a magnificent swoop, and has captured the city “until Christmas at least,” according to word contained in a cable sent Mr. Hicks by Viking Leader Carl P. York. The message, received in New York on October 23rd., says : “CRUSADES” OPENED LAST NIGHT CIRKUS, LARGEST HOUSE COPENHAGEN. PACKED HOUSE, EXCELLENT PRESS, CONSTANT HEARTY APPLAUSE DURING ENTIRE PEREORMANCE. FROST PREDICTS THAT PICTURE WILL RUN UNTIL CHRISTMAS. REGARDS. You might as well know it, Harald Frost, we are going to be en elephant in remembering this prediction of yours : and if the picture runs over into the new year, we are also going to be an elephant in never forgetting that fact. BUENOS AIRES HONORS GARDEL’S MEMORY Here is the exterior of the SiiiItaeha Theatre in Buenos Aires on the oceasion of the premiere of Garlo.s Gardel’s “Tanj^o Bar,” his tiiial picture for Paramount r e Iea.se. The premiere was one of the greatest events in cinema history. Page 3 IN ETHIOPIA WITH PARAMOUNT NEWS Here’s Cameraman John Dored atop a Paramount Ne-ws sound truck in Addis Ababa, filming Emperor Haile Selassie’s men marching a-way to the front. Dored is one of several Paramount News cameramen giving to the world a film record of this newest international cataclysm. IMPORTANT FLASH ON JAN KIEPURA’S FIRST FILM “Give LTs This Night,” Jan Kiepura’s first American film for Paramount, is definitely under way. In a Hollywood wire dated October 28th, Luigi Luraschi, studio representative of Paramount International Corporation, had the following to say regarding actual production : “GII’E US THIS NIGHT has started grandly. Kiepura looks very well indeed. He appears as a nice, young, clean-cut, charming fellow, Gladys Swarthout, too, is very charming and gracious. The scenes which we have seen in the ‘rashes’ to date are in a little Italian church and pi-omise very well for the rest of the picture.” “THE BRIDE COMES HOME” Here are the three principals in the sparkling Claudette Colbert picture, “The Bride Comes Home” — and when Claudette sparkles, you know the grand type of picture she makes. The two leading men are Fred MacMurray and Robert Young. GET NATHAN AT ANY COST! See Chapter 3 •''TheHonorofthe Legion"