"MADAME BUTTERFLY"
RELEASE IN NEW ZEALAND Tho modem version of Puccini's famous opera, " Madame Butterfly," has arrived in the form of a featurelength film, and will bo distributed by Paramount Pictures in tho very near future. Tho role of Cho-Cho-San is portrayed by Sylvia Sidney, with Gary Grant enacting Lieutenant Pinkerton, and although almost all the dialogue will bo in English no pains have been spared to preserve tho Oriental atmosphere in which tho story is laid. Tho music of the opera forms a background for the film, adding yet another authentic note to tho production. Other prominent parts arc played by Charlie Rugglos as Lieutenant Barton, Irving Pichel as Yamadori, Heleno Jeromo Eddy as Cho-Cho-San's mother, and also Edmund Breese, Louiso Carter, Sandor Kallay, Judith Vosselli, Sheila Terry, Dorothy Libaire, Berton Churchhill and Phillip Horomato.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)
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136"MADAME BUTTERFLY" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)
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