OUTSTANDING FILM PRODUCTIONS

Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 10

OUTSTANDING FILM PRODUCTIONS

AMALGAMATED THEATRES CIRCUIT - Amalgamated Theatres have recently signed up a number of new contracts with famous film producing companies for the 1936-37 season, and these will be screened at the Regent Theatre, Whangarei. Among the productions from 20th Century Fox Film Corporation of America are “To Mary With Love,” with Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy. It covers a period of ten years rich in pageantry and memorable events, including the Tunney-Dempsey fight, the great American stock market crash, and Lindbergh’s reception following his first solo flight to Parris; “Charlie Chan at the Race Track,’ with Warner Oland playing Earl derr Biggers’ wily detective role; “Girls’ Dormitory,” which stars Simone Simon, making her American screen debut, with Herbert Marshall and Ruth Chatterton; . “Pepper,” starring Jane Withers, who also appears in “Can This be Dixie?” her second production; “Ramona,” being 20th-Century’s first all-technicolour production. Loretta Young is the star; “Dimples,” with Shirley Temple. She has an entirely different role and one which will long be remembered, as the little maid of New York’s Bowery in the 1850’s. Her second production will be “Stowaway”; .“Reunion,” featuring the Dionne Quintuplets, in which they not only talk, but sing a French lullaby. Jean Hersholt will again appear as the country doctor; “Under Your Spell” has been selected as the title for the new Lawrence Tibbett “musical”; “Living Dangerously,” with Franchot Tone, June Lang and Donald Crisp, is one of the strangest stories yet uncovered; “Lloyds of London,” produced by Daryl Zanuck, who expects to exceed his outstanding past success in the “House of Rothschild.” Some 50 principals are to appear in the spectacular scenes, and among them are Freddie Bartholomew, Loretta Young, etc.; “On the Avenue” stars Dick Powell in Irving Berlin’s latest “musical”; “Seventh Heaven” is to be made again with an entirely new cast. British Films. Films to be released by Gaumont-British-Dominion Distributors Ltd., will include “As You Like It,” adapted from Shakespeare’s immortal comedy, and featuring Elizabeth Bergner; “Wings of the Morning,” the first production to be made in England all in technicolour. It features the worldfamous Count John McCormack, who will sing “Killarney” and “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms”; “East Meets West,” a George Arliss production in which George Arliss is seen as an Eastern Rajah. A further George Arliss picture will be “The Nelson Touch”; “Head Over Heels,” with Jessie Matthews as the star, directed by Sonnie Hale; “Soldiers Three,” an Empire epic based on Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated story and featuring Victor McLaglan, Maureen O’Sullivan and C. Aubrey Smith; “Song of Freedom,” starring Paul Robeson, the great negro singer and actor of “Showboat” and “Sanders of the River” fame. A further Paul Robeson picture is entitled “King Solomon’s Mines.”

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. From the studios of R.K.O. Pictures there will be “Stepping Toes,” with the ever-popular Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; “Mother Carey’s Chickens,” starring Ginger Rogers; “Perfect Harmony,” co-starring Ginger Rogers and Charles Boyer; “Quality Street,” co-starring Franchot Tone and Katherine Hepburn, from the famous play by Sir J. 811. Barrie; “Clementina,” featuring Robert Donat; “Manhattan Girl” (tentative title), starring Lily Pons, Gene Raymond and Jack Oakie; “Rainbow of the River,” starring Bobbie Breen, the American radio sensation; “Behold the Bridegroom,” co-starring Barbara Stanwyck v and Herbert Marshall; “Flirting With Fate,” starring Joe E. Brown, and a further picture by the same artist yet untitled; “A Pair of Sixes,” co-stari’ing the inimitable Wheeler and Woolsey. There is also a further Ginger Rogers “musical” with Jack Oakie, yet untitled. In addition, there is also a Claudette Colbert production yet untitled. Amalgamated Theatres have also contracted for, and will screen hall the output from Paramount Film Service (N.Z.) Ltd., featuring such wellknown players as Gary Cooper, Marlone Dietrich, Madeleine Carroll, Irene Dunn, W. C. Fields, Bing Crosby and Sir Guy Standing. From Columbia Pictures, the company has all the Grace Moore productions, and also Ronald Colman in “The Lost Horizon.” From Universal Studios William Powell in “My Man Godfrey,” Irene Dunn as “Madame Curie,” “The Life of Sarah Bernhardt,” and “Hippodrome,” with a cast of stars made up of leaders in opera.