PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 9

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

A real holiday reception was accorded jthe popular English company, The Futiirista, last evening at the Paramount JTheatre, when the final week of their Beason was commenced. Mr. George Corelli's splendid tenor voice had no difficulty with 'fQuesta c Quelka," from i"Rigoletto," and his encore, "Come to jthe Fair," was well received. His duet {with Miss Ira Love in the "Miserere" .was an excellent number. Miss Winnie j Edgerton's number with Miss Love, ''Moonlight and Roses," was heartily applauded. Mr. Gus Dawson had a bright turn to offer in "Don't Believe a Word" y-ith the Cabaret Kittens, .and Miss Eily Dalgleish sang "There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes" very tunefully, and also danced firacefully with Mr. Dawson. Mr. G. W. Desmond was highly amusing in the police farce, "A Windy Day," and "One Word Drama" and "The Trentham Tragedy" were successful sketches 'with clever topical references. A feature of the show was the singing of ■"All Alone" by Miss Gladys Thomas, an attractive contralto, who also displayed unusual skill at the pianoforte and in conducting the orchestra. The picture which completes the bill is "The Making of O'Malley," and shows how, for all his outward appearance of gruffness, a policeman may possess a heart of gold. Milton Sills plays the part of the policeman, whose kindness towards the children on his beat makes him neglect his duty. There is a- delightful climax.' "THE TALKING PICTURES." Modern ingenuity gives the world one isceming miracle after another in quick succession. Hardly a year passes but what one hears of 6ome extraordinary development in commercial or scientific spheres. The phantasies of Jules Vet-no and of H. G. Wells, far-fetched as they appeared at the time of their origin, are cuniing into everyday reality, and he •would be a bold or au unthinking mail ■who could put a definite limit to the wientific developments the future holds, j There is now in existence—indeed, in existence in Wellington—an invention well , calculated to alter all existing ideas o£ the future aud the value of cinematd' graphy. The film made audible—not by fallible mechanical auxiliaries, such as a gramophonic attachment operated mote or less in harmony with movements portrayed on the screen, but given almost human speech and Bound by a scientific invention as wonderful as any that are in our civilised structure. The Phonofilm turns the "movies" into the "talkies," for want of a more expressive term. Phonofilms are in Wellington, the first city in the Southern Hemisphere in ■which public exhibitions will be given. The Paramount Theatre will show them for a short season starting next Friday.