NEW PARAMOUNT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 16

NEW PARAMOUNT THEATRE

“Rose Marie’’ “Rose Marie,” co-starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy is screening at the Paramount Theatre to-day. Like its forerunner, “Rose Marie” was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and produced by Hunt Stromberg. Replete with haunting music, a tender story, magnificent photography and backgrounds, it is truly the film sensation of the year. Miss MacDonald plays the name role, an opera star who travels disguised into the wilds in search of her dissolute brother, a criminal from justice. Nelson Eddy portrays Sergeant Bruce, as fin° a "Mountie” as ever rode a horse. Assigned to bring the criminal to justice, there is the thrust of personal duty when these two meet and fall in Jove. With all its outdoor scenes made against natural backgrounds of surpassing beauty in the mountain lake country of the Sierra Nevadas, “Rose Marie” is a pictorial work of art. The musical numbers are brilliantly staged and brilliantly sung. Also searching for the brother is Sergeant Bruce, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They meet and fall in love, until she realises the mission of the other. Tlic crashing climax and poignant ending of the story will be remembered long after most pictures are forgotten. One of the outstanding sequences is the totem pole Indian dance, the grotesque set mounted on a sandpit extending into a broad lake. Peopled by more than a thousand dancers, lavish in costume, with music thrillingly beautiful, it sets a new level for effect photography and spectacular direction. A strong supporting cast assists Miss MacDonald and Eddy in “Rose Marie,” among them being James Stewart us .the criminal brother, Reginald Owen as the star's manager, Allan Jones, who scored so decisively in “A Night at the Opera," George Regas. Robert Greig, Una O'Connor, and Lucien Littlefield. Laurel am] Hardy in one of their better comedies, “Busybodies,” support the big picture.