PROGRAMME FOR 1936

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21707, 14 February 1936, Page 5

PROGRAMME FOR 1936

MALGAMATED THEATRES, LIMITED ' ‘

‘Amalgamated Theatres’ announce that .contracts, have .been entered into by them for the purchase of supplies c£ - films, from' three- major .film., distributing companies. The companies'are: Fox Film Corporation (A'sia), Ltd,, Fox-Gaumont-British, Fox-20th Century, RKO Radio Pictures (A’sia), Ltd., and Universal Films. The supplies from these exchanges will be screened in Christchurch at the State and Mayfair Theatres. . ; Among the important productions to be released by these studios are:--Rpnpld Colman, in : "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” producted by Darryl. Zanuck; Lawrence Tibbstt, Jn "Metropolitan”; Warner Baxter, in "The Prisoner of Shark Island”; Message to Garcia,” with Wallace Beery in the main role, “Professional' Soldier,” with Victor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew (of "David Copperfield" fame).; “Show Them No Mercy,” with Rochelle Hudson, from 20th Century' Studios. Four Shirley Temple pictures—two of which are already" named “Littlest Rebel” and “Captain' January”; “Ramona,” filmed entirely in technicolour, with Rochelle Hudson and John Boles (this film is the first outdoor big picture to be produced in technicolour); ' Warner Baxter, in “King of Burlesque”; three Jane Withers’ pictures—three already named, “Paddy O’Day,” “Gentle Julia,” and “This Is The Life”; “Here’s to Romance,” with Nino Martini, who is claimed to be the greatest tenor since Caruso; “The Country Beyond,” a James Oliver Curwood story, starring Rochelle Hudson; and “The Country Doctor,” featuring the, Dionne quintuplets, from Fox. Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn in “Foreign Affairs”; Jessie Matthews, in “First a Girl”; Jack Hulbert, in “Jack Of All Trades”; Richard Dix and Helen Vinson in “The Tunnel”; Conrad Veldt in “King of.the Damned” • and “Passing of the Third Floor Back”; Walter Huston in “Rhodes of Africa”; Madeline Carroll, in “Secret Agent,” and Rudyard Kipling’s immortal story, “Soldiers Three,” from

Gaumont-British. Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers in "Follow the Fleet”; Lily Pons, in "I Dream Too Much"; Herbert Marshall and Ann Harding, in “Indestructible Mrs Talbot'*; Barbara Stanwyck, in "Annie Oakley”; Gene Raymond, in George M. Cohen’s "Seven Keys to Baldpate”; Frank Buck’s successor to "Bring Alive,’ entitled “Fang and Claw”; ? «nne Shirley, star of "Anne of Green Gables,” in “Chatterbox ” and 'Wheeler and Wolsey in "The Wild West,” from R.K.O. Studios. And Victor Hugo’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame”; two Margaret Sul lavan productions, not yet named; Martha Eggerth, the Continental star, in "Song of Joy”; Boris Karloff,, in “Blue Beard,” “Phantom of the Opera,” and "Draciila’s Daughter,” and three , thrillers,, ’Plane.” “The Destroyer,” and ’“Flying Squadron,” from Universal. Supports from the Universal ' Studios include Graham McNamee’s Universal Newsreel, Oswald the Rabbit Cartoons, and camera thrills.

MUSIC AND COLOUR IN : ' NEW: FILMSi

Music and colour will both have a jftominent place in new films to be made in 1936. A full-length technicolour film, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” is scheduled by Paramount, which will celebrate its silver jubilee this year. The film will exploit ; the scenic splendours of the Rockies, among: other natural delights. One of the most ambitious of this studio’s productions will be “Faust.” The famous opera will be filmed by Pabst, one of the .greatest of the Gerdirectors, in association with the Metropolitan Grand Opera of New York. Other operas will follow if “Faust” is a success. Another musical is David Belasco and Walter Tally’s “Rose of. the Rancho, an opera in which Gladys S war thou t, a Metropolitan Opera singer, makes her debut. "Jan Kiepura This Wght ” rd 3nd in “ GiVe US Gary Cooper and Ann Harding are to be together in “Peter Ibbetson.”

Mae West will make “Klondike Lou,” and Carl Brisson “Ship Cafe” and “Stormy Spring.” Brisson may possibly go to Australia at some future date.