PARAMOUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 5 (Supplement)

PARAMOUNT.

THE 1928-29 SEASON.

" WHOLE SHOW PROGRAMME."

70 FEATURES: 200 SHORT FEATURES

No fewer than seventy feature pictures and two hundred short features are included in Paramount Pictures' "Whole Show Programme" for the coming season. All the pictures are to be produced under the Paramount banner, commencing in January, 1929.

Following is the list of Paramount feature pictures for the new year, as arranged thus far:—

"The Patriot" will star Eruil Jannings, supported by Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, and Neil Hamilton, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; the story deals with the life of the mad Paul, Czar of Russia. Jannings will also star in "Sins of the Fathers" and "Ellis Island." "Abie's Irish Rose" (from the successful stage play by Annie Nicliolls; will star Nancy Carroll, Charles Rogers, and Jean Hersholt. "The Wedding March," which, has already been two years in the making, will have Erich Von Stroheim as author, producer, and star, and Fay Wray featured. Wallace Beery will have "heavy" roles in "The Tong War" and "Beggars of Life" (the screen version of Jim Tully's story). William Powell will be featured in "The Canary Murder Case" (basel on the murder of famous Broadway beauty). Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook will be together in three pictures, "The Crime of Interference" (a heavy melodrama of mystery in high society, in which Willam Powell will be featured), "The Letter," (W. Somerset Maughan's play, laid in the Malay States), and "Under Tropic Moons." "Ladies of the Chorus," starring Nancy Carroll and Louise Brooks, will be personally supervised by Florenz ("Flo") Ziegfield. "The Perfumed Trap" will star Mary Brian, with Clive Brook and William Powell. Mary Brian will also be seen with Richard Arlen in "The Upstart" and "Living Together" (a comedy in which Chester Conklin will be starred). Richard Arlen will co-star with Nancy Carroll in "The Man I Love." "The Hard-boiled Angel" will feature Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper, who will also be seen in "Wolfsong." "Three Week-ends" (Elinor Glyn). "The Apache," "The Fleet's In," and "The Saturday Night Kid" will be Clara B/w't film: . Richard Dix will have two specials, "Redskin" and "Unconquered," and three features, two of which are "Warming Up" (a baseball story) and "Moran of the Marines" (with Ruth Elder, the famous aviatrix). George Bancroft will be seen in "The Docks of New York," "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Swag," and "Scarface." Bebe Daniels will make four pictures, the first of which will be "Take Me Home." One ''special" and four features will be made for Esther Ralston; the "special" will be "The Case of Lena Smith," and two of the features will be "The Sawdust Paradise" and "High Society." "The Water

Hole," "Avalanclie," and "Sunset," all Zane Grey stories, will star Jack Holt. "Loves of An Actress" and "The Woman From Moscow" will feature Polp Negri. "The First Kiss," "The Haunting Melody," and another story yet to be chosen will co-star Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, who will be billed as Paramount's "glorious young lovers." "Divorce Bound" and another film will have Florence Vidor for their star. " 'Varsity" and "Two Shall Meet" and two other features will be Charles Rogers' vehicles. "Just Married" will be the first of thi>.e pictures for James Hall and Ruth Lee Taylor (the Lorelei of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes). "His Private Life" and "The Beauty Doctor" will be for Adolphe Menjou.

The pictures to he made by outside producers releasing through Paramount will include one, and possibly two, from Harold Lloyd and two from the Christie Film Company, starring Douglas McLean. "Wanted—a Wife" will be McLean's first. "Huntingtower" (in which Sir Harry Lauder will make hia first screen appearance) is on the programme, and there will be a travel film of Africa by Cooper and Schoedsack, who made "Chang."

Among the 200 short features to be released in New Zealand and Australia in 1929 are 52 issues of the Paramount World News, 52 editions of the Paramount Australian Gazette, 32 two-reel Christie comedies, two Edward Everett Horton comedies, 26 "Krazy Kat" cartoons, 26 "Out of the Inkwell" cartoons, and 12 Paramount Novelty Short Features. Jack Duffy, Bobby Vernon, Billy Dooley, and Frances Lee are among the comedians who will make two-reel films.

Two Paramount cameramen will accompany Commander Richard Byrd on his Antarctic expedition, of whi<ih, it is hoped, a pictorial record will be brought back, and Paramount will also make the first epic of the dirigible, of which "Dirigible" will be the title.

William K. Howard, who came back to Fox Films to make two productions, and who is now in the midst of the first of these, "The River Pirate," has been signed by Fox Films to a five-year contract.

LEAN TIMES,

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