PARAMOUNT WEEK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 14 (Supplement)

PARAMOUNT WEEK

NEW ZEALAND OBSERVANCE NEXT SEASON'S FILMS An important event in the New Zealand entertainment world is Paramount Week, which will be celebrated from September 2 to 7. During this period a great number of theatres will screen, exclusively, tho new season's releases from the Paramount studios. Over 150 theatres throughout tho Dominion will be participating. The Paramount studios have contributed substantially to the progress of the motion picture industry, and although the complete list of its new season's products lias not yet been announced, there seems to bo ample proof that the coming year will be a most successful one. A film which has already created much discussion is "The Scoundrel," a brilliant satire in which Noel Coward will make his screen debut. Cecil B. de Mille is engaged in producing another spectacular historical picture, "The Crusaders," with Henry Wilooxon and Loretta Young in tho principal roles. Other important films in the course of production are "Peter Jbbctson," with Gary Cooper and Ann Harding; Sir Guy Standing in "Annapolis Farewell"; "The Big Broadcast of 1935," with Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Charles Buggies and Mary Boland; and Cary Grant and Claude Rains in "The Last Outpost." Operettas and musical films also will he included, and Gladys Swarthout, a Metropolitan opera singer, will bo seen for the first tiino on tho screen in tho adaptation of the famous David Belasco play, "Hose of tho Rancho." Among the other productions aro "Now I'm a Lady," with Mao West; Marleno Dietrich in "Carnival in Spain"; "Shanghai," with Charles Boyer; Herbert Marshall and Sylvia Sidney in "Accent on Youth"; and "Men Without Names," with Fred Mac Murray and Madge Evans.