BIG FILM PURCHASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 280, 26 November 1931, Page 8

BIG FILM PURCHASE.

FOR NEW ZEALAND THEATRES

PARAMOUNT PRODUCTS OF 1932.

A business deal of much interest to the motion picture public has been consummated, whereby Williamson Films (N.Z.), Ltd., have purchased for their New Zealand circuit of theatres the entire 1932 product of Paramount Pictures. Some idea of the significance of the Ideal, from the point of view of standard i of entertainment offered the public, can be gauged when it is realised that Paramount Pictures, the leading pictureproducing company, is utilising its 20 years of experience and its vast resources. drawn from studios in Hollywood. New York and London, to make its 1932 programme the most outstanding in its history. The new arrangement eoines into force immediately, and already the first super-production, "The Smiling Lieutenant," starring Maurice Chevalier, has been released at the Regent Theatre, Wellington. Of special interest to New Zealanders is the knowledge that this deal includes the product "of the Paramount London studios. The first picture made in London by Paramount was "These Charming People," from the novel by Michael Arlen, featuring Cyril Claude with Nora Swinburn and Godfrey Tcarlc Other British productions are "The Man from Mayfair," from a novel by May EdginLOll. the cast headed by Jack Buchanan, Ellaline Terris and others; "The Light That Failed." Rtidvard Kipling's famous story, which will star Percy Marmont, and "Stamboul," and "A Child in Their Midst," for which production casts have not yet been announced. Productions from New York and Hollywood studios are: —Ruth Cliatterton in "Once a Lady'"; "Huckleberry Finn"; George Bancroft in "Rich Man's Folly"; "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring Fredric March; "Tabu." an idyll of the South Seas; "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," with Clive Brook; Tallulah Bankhead in "My Sin"; Nancy Carroll in "Personal Maid"; The Marx Brothers in "Monkey Business"; and "All American Tragedy," from the muchdiscussed novel by Theodore Dreiser.