Paramount Punch (1930)

PARAMOUNT PUNCH. Our Bach Bage tof Front Page IMeirs THE casting of Sylvia Sidney and George Raft as a team in “Pick-Up marks the first co-assignment for the two young players, both of whom have won screen prominence in less than two years . . . “Madame Butterfly" will be the first of A'liss Sidney’s new productions to arrive here, and it is confidently believed that her performance in this picture will be her best to date. . . Kate Smith will make another attempt to get that moon over the mountain in “Hullo Everybody” . . . Her famous song hit, by the way, has reached the million mark in sales. . . “When (he Moon Comes Over the Mountain” in case you didn't know. . . “Dead Reckoning' , Robert Presnell's original screen story of romance, drama and murder aboard a tsalatial private yacht, has been purchased by Paramount for filming with an all-star cast. . . Wynne Gibson, Richard Arlen, and Cary Grant are those so far selected. . . “The Curse of Sunken Cold” is another story recently purchased. It is a story of deep sea divers seeking Personalities Bert matts of the h.o. Despatch Dept,, left on an all sports tour last Saturday to Cunnamatta Bay. He will specialise in sharks, mainly to show us that Mr. S. Craig of New Zealand is not the Paramount champion. Tom Bowden of the H.O. Accounts will make his domicile at Tuggerah Lakes for two weeks. Swimming wdl occupy Tom’s time on his Vacation. Cleo Andrews of the N.S.W. Accounts Dept., is vacationing at Katoomba. Nell Bremner of the same dept., hopes to spend this week-end with Cleo. Paramount is certainly well represented at Katoomba these days. Miss Frankie Fuller of the H.O. Despatch Dept., is also holidaying at the Mountains. Verna Browne, of the Wellington office, is on holidays, cruising around the Hauraki Gulf and looking up Auckland friends. THINK IT OVER. nlli fabulous wealth from sunken trea f sure ships . . . Bing Lrosby will ^ ■'Peace rules make a second appearance before ^ the day where the cameras in “College Humor” / jN repson rules . . . Dick Arlen will have the lead, the mind.” and :n addition to Crosby, the poem / \ lar comedy team. Burns and Allen, will also be prominently cast. . . Just . . . for your information . . . Not to be outdone by District Manager Claude Henderson’s order of six lobby stands. Bill Bisnell, Adelaide Ad. Sales Manager, has obtained orders from Henley Beach and Cawler for three lobby stands . . . This makes a total of nine lobby stands sold within a week. Baden Abotomey returned last week from the country with a batch of excellent Ad. Sales orders... One of those orders worthy of special mention Was obtained from a country theatre covering Ad. Sales for Trouble in Paradise”, the quantities of which are as follows: I X 24s, 2 X 3s, 10 X Is, 35 Daybills, one set each o/ 1 I x 1 4, 8x10 and 22 X 28 photos, slides, stereos and trailer . . . George Hayes of Launceston branch, has been checking over his courier possibilities, and has been successful in obtaining o'-ders for 6, COO of the onecolour couriers for all pictures on which they are prepared . . Cable requisition was this week received from Andre Olsen, Afanager of Batavia Branch, requesting 24,000 couriers and 200 daybills over his regular quota on “The Sign of the Cross”. This quantity of couriers more than doubles the previous best order received from the Far East, and certainly gives us some indication of the excellent orders that are in store for us for this outstanding production. Country of origin — Australia. Wholly set up and printed by The Market Printery Ltd., .'i72a Pitt Street, Sydney. T^ublished by Paramount Film Service IJmited, of Re^eivoir Street. Sydney.