PARAMOUNT'S FEATURE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 5

PARAMOUNT'S FEATURE.

"The Big Broadcast of 1336,"

A wide assortment of nationalities is represented in the cast, of Paramount's comedy, with music, "The Big Broadcast of 1936," coming to the Paramount Theatre on Saturday, and featuring Jack Oakie, Burns and Allen,. Lyda Roberti, Wendy Barrie, and the Nicholas brothers. The principals hail from the far corners of the earth. Wendy Barrie, feminine lead,-is a British subject born in Hong Kong; Jack Oakie and Henry Wadsworth are Americans; Lyda Roberti, the comedienne, is Polish; and Akim' Tamiroff is a Russian. Bill Robinson, negro tap dancer, also appears in the picture, while scores of Mexican and South American dancers appear in an important sequence. "The Big Broadcast of 1936" is a hilarious comedy romance, set against the background of radio. Jack Oakie and Henry Wadsworth, air entertainers, plan to enter an international broadcasting contest to save their radio station from bankruptcy. George Bunis and h.i& wife, Gracie Allen, bring the boys their television invention, the Radio Eye. Lyda Roberti, a rich, young and romantic-minded countess, meets Oakie and Wadsworth and determines to marry one of them. She kidnaps the boys to her mythical kingdom in Cuba, where they are her prisoner' guests until she can make up her mind which one she wants. In their frantic attempt to escape, they inadvertently compete in the radio contest when Oakie broadcasts for help with the Radio Eye,