Paramount Punch (1930)

PARAMOUNT PUNCH. ^f'HE fi rst eight pictures to be ready for the launching of Paramount’s new season, will be; “Movie Crazy” with Harold Lloyd, “Blonde Venus” with Marlene Dietrich, “Night After Night” with George Raft and Nancy Carroll “Horsefeathers” with the Four Marx Bros., “ 1 he Big Broadcast” with an all-star radio aggregation and ‘Love Me To-night” with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. Remember them well, for they mark the turning point in the organisation’s history. The formerly Idled "The Honesi Finder" with Miriam Hopkins, Herbert Marshall and Claudette Colbert, has now been changed to "Thieves and Lovers". This title by the way is tentative. Also Worthy of note is that Ernst Lubitsch is in charge of the direction. “The Lusitania Secret”, listed as one of the new season productions, is being cast and Richard Bennett, Gene Raymond and Francis Dee have already been selected to portray important roles. Having completed her fortnight’ s vacation in New York, Sylvia Sidney Will return to Hollywood in preparation for her role in Paramount s film version of "Madame Butterfly ’, which will begin production Very soon. Miss Sidney will play the well known role of the Japanese girl. WHY NOVEMBER? ALBERT DEANE’S LETTER. ( Continued from Page 3 ) . member of the staff who was spared went across, and all the wives and children had been invited. What they wanted, was to obtain a genuine reaction to the picture — and they did ! “I cabled you yesterday about this picture, and I think what I said needs some elaboration here. The picture is undeniably Lloyd’s best, and has some sequences in it of more than a reel m length, that will absolutely knock audiences out of their seats. I mean this literally, because the fun is so absolutely spontaneous and swift that average audiences won’t be able to keep their seats. We, of the Foreign Department, are absolutely sure that it is Lloyd’s best picture, and we are moulding all of our activities to that fact. ‘70,000 Witnesses’ — ^Here is a picture that has most successful box-office possibilities that we have seen in months. The picture, of course, is about football, but the game is incidental to the mystery which develops. It hc'is an angle which has never been seen before, and the mystery which no one can solve m advance. We are most enthusiastic about the picture here, and the fact of havin.g seen it on Monday, ‘Movie Crazy’ cn 1 uesday and ‘Love Me To-Night’ to-day, certainly indicates that we are back on the highroad of pioneer picture-producing and that happy days are here again.” ^HE numbers are up for Paramount Week, the first week of the September Drive, and to W. Bignell, Adelaide Ad. Sales Manager, goes the honor of returning the best percentage of Ad. Sales business for Paramount Week. H. Quincey, of Brisbane, was a very close second, with R. Lawn, of Perth, in third position. Every Branch exceeded Quota, and the National figures recorded were the best this year. The actual percentage of each branch to date appears in this issue of “Punch”. Further evidence of the popularity of the new 3-Colour Courier comes from Andre Olsen, Manager of Batavia branch, who has forwarded an order for 12,000 of these Couriers on THIS IS THE NIGHT. This is the first Courier order in years to be received from the Far East, and certainly speaks volumes for the rich appeal of this new flashy Courier. H. Quincey is recording phenomenal sales of the “God Save the King” title. His sales to date total 73, vyhich is more than twice the number sold by any other branch. Sales by Adelaide branch now total 22. Launceston branch has sold 10, while Perth and Wellington branches have disposed of four each. No further sales have been reported from either Sydney or Melbourne branches. The total sales of these “God Save the King” titles now number 1 50, and should every branch follow H. Quincey’s lead, this total should swell to well over 400. WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER ? Country of origin — Australia. Wholly set up and printed by The Market Prinlery Ltd., 372a Pitt Sti'oet, Sydney. Published bv Par-imount Film Service Limited, of Rescivoi** Street, SycHey.