PARAMOUNT THEATRE
The Paramount Theatre's surprise preview opened last night with two feature-length films that were ’both surprising and good. Starting, with some Buster Keaton hilarity, the programme shifts into swift, action with an unusual gangster film in -which Lloyd Nolan has the lead. . The main feature-length show is n complete novelty, a new sort of comedy film of Hollywood poking fun at itself, and specially, at a great personage notable for his free and easy use of the American language. , . A new star, Judy Canova, plays a burlesque hill-billv part in lhe oilier featurelength film, which starts with a hearty laugh and does not let up for a moment till the very end. This is a top-notch programme, with a thrill or a laugh in every foot-
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 7
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128PARAMOUNT THEATRE Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 7
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