PARAMOUNT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 138, 7 March 1942, Page 10

PARAMOUNT THEATRE

Bombs can rain from the skies, buildings can topple, men and women can go to their deaths in bottomless oceans and yet, so strange is human nature that the prospect of seeing a man-fiend prowling at night attired in the skin of an ape will, bring crowds to the cinema, all eager *" have their spines chilled. The Paramount Theatre struck the right psychological note this week when it b-oiighf Boris Karloff to the screen in “The Ape.” It is a super-shocker that makes' “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” look like bedtime stories for five-year-olds. . The second picture has an item of interest for every member of the picturegoing public. It is ‘‘les. Madam, the film version of a bright prewar musical comedy. First, the leading lady is Diana Churchill, as beautiful as her famous namesake is brilliant. Then there is Vera Pearce, 12 stone or more of comedienne, who is well remembered in 'Wellington for the appearances she has made with J. C. ’Williamson’s stage shows. Add to the cast the names of Bobby Howes. inimitable comedian of the London stage, Wylie Watson and Fred Emney, whom England knows best as off-sider to Leslie Henson, and one has a east which could not possibly help but turn "Yes, Madam" into entertainment of the lightest and most tuneful order. The Paramount can always be relied upon to give the public plenty of variety. This week the theatre has excelled itself.