PARAMOUNT THEATRE.
"The Lives of a Bengal Lancer."
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, and Sir Guy Standing have the leading roles in Paramount's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," which opens at the Paramount Theatre tomorrow. The picture employed more than 20.000 people and was four years in production. It is a colourful -ad-venture-spectacle based on the exploits of a handful of men who protect the outposts, of the British Empire in India. The film was entrusted to a comparatively young director rather than to a veteran and experienced man, because | of Gary Cooper's faith in a'man who had made good. Six months ago, Cooper observed the work of a young director, Henry Hathaway. Cooper had an idea that some day the young chap would be useful to him as a director of his pictures. The actor's earnest plea earned for Hathaway the job of directing Gary, Carole Lombard,, and Shirley Temple in "Now and Forever." As a result of that picture's success, Hathaway got the tremendous job of filming "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 7
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177PARAMOUNT THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 7
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