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PARAMOUNT PUNCH.
DOUBLE FEATURE BILL FOR PRINCE EDWARD.
PRE-XMAS PERIOD.
TWO smash Paramount productions, ‘‘Midnight Club”, featuring Clive Brook, George Raft, Alison Skipworth and Helen Vinson, and “Torch Singer”, with Claudette Colbert have been booked for the Sydney Prince Edward Theatre to commence a season on December 9th.
The pre-Christmas period, is really the hardest time of the year in show business, but with two productions of the calibre of those selected, the Prince Edward management is confident of obtaining their share of that “stowed away for Xmas” cash.
SPECIAL POSTERS FOR
“DESIGN FOR LIVING”.
Realising the great possibilities of such a story and cast. Paramount’s Home Office Advertising department is sparing no effort in its search for suitable poster designs for “Design for Living”.
Paramount is combing the art world to bring new and unusual effects to the poster designs for the advertising of this picture, and in addition are offering substantial prizes for the work considered to have the most appeal. Not only have the leading artists been approached, but also leading art schools and clubs to whom the Advertising Dept, has forwarded letters advising pupils of the “Design for Living” poster contest.
CIRCUS PICTURE.
George nacard of
Perth supplies this one, and vouches for its authenticity:—
“Dave was on a oisii io town, and seeing the streets plastered with "The Sign of the Cross’ billing, presented himself at the box-office and asked for tickets to see 'that Circus picture'. Apparently what intrigued him was the lions in the arena scenes pictured on the daybills.
BOOKERS^ DRIVE PERSONALITIES.
He’s tall, dark, and handsome . . . Bob Henderson, crack booker attached to the Adelaide Branch. Bob is a younger brother to District Manager Claude Henderson, and like his brother, is a 100 per cent. Paramounteer with first-class sales ability.
PARAMOUNT BUYS STORIES FROM NOTED AUTHORS.
EIGHT IN PRODUCTION.
Eight films, now in production, or about to start at Paramount, are from the pens of some of the world’s best known writers.
Lewis Carroll, whose “Alice in Wonderland” has delighted children and grown-ups for more than half a century, is now at work with Charlotte Henry in the title role, and Norman McLeod directing.
“Cradle Song”, one of the masterpieces written by Gregorio Martinez Sierra, has just been completed, with Dorothea Wieck in the leading role.
Other well known moderns whose works are being filmed at the same studio are Francis Yeats-Brown, who wrote “Lives of a Bengal Lancer”; Manuel Komroff, the author of “Coronet”, who has just finished “The Scarlet Pageant” for Marlene Dietrich; Noel Coward, whose “Design for Living” is being edited. Rupert Hughes, whose “Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen”, is about to be filmed; Nina Wilcox Putnam, one of the best known women writers; and Zane Grey, dean of all outdoor, adventure and romance authors.
MOCK TURTLE’S ROLE COES TO CARY GRANT
CARY GRANT has become the fifty-third and last member of the “cast of the century” in Paramount’s “Alice in Wonderland”. Replacing Bing Crosby in the role of the Mock Turtle, he will sing the song, “Soup, Soup, Beautiful Soup”.
IF IT’S A PARAMOUNT PICTURE— IT’S THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN!