"PENTHOUSE."

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 6

"PENTHOUSE."

Paramount Theatre.

Warner Baxter and Myrna t/oy are the featured players in Arthur Somers Roche's "Penthouse," which, opens tomorrow for a return season at. the Paramount Theatre. Filmed at the •Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, it is based upon the novel from the pen of Arthur Somers Roche, published serially in "Cosmopolitan Magazine." As a scion of an aristocratic New York family, and a society lawyer who chooses to defend notorious racketeers, Warner Baxter is said to give one of the finest performances of his long motion picture career. As Gertie Waxted, a beautiful night-club girl, Myrna Loy far surpasses any of her triumphs in previous picture productions. With exotic roles now a part of her brilliant past, in "Penthouse" she has taken, command of one of the strongest and most lovable characterisations of her career and her romantic scenes with Warner Baxter will long be remembered. W. S. Van Dyke, an ace director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was in charge of the production. He is remembered for his exceptional supervision of "White Shadows in the South Seas" and "Trader Horn." Mac Clark, Broadway stage favourite, and who has appeared in such screen successes as "Turn; Back the Clock" and "Fast Workers," fills a featured role as Mimi, tha gorgeous night club hostess who meets a mysterious death. Phillips Holmes heads the supporting cast. Others who play important roles include Martha Sleeper, C. Henry Gordon, Nat Pendleton, George E. Stone, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Charles Butterworth and Raymond Hatton.