PARAMOUNT WEEK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 13

PARAMOUNT WEEK

MANY THEATRES CO-OPERATE. One of the most important periods in the New Zealand entertainment sphere is Paramount Week, during whidi time a great number of motion picture theatres screen, exclusively, pictures from the famous Paramount studios. The first week of September is set down for this all-important occasion, which has every indication of being the most widely celebrated since its inception 14 years ago. Mr S. H. Craig, general manager for Paramount Pictures in New Zealand, announces that more than 150 theatres in the Dominion will he participating in the 1 festivities, including several of the important city motion picture houses. Many provincial theatres are also planning special campaigns for Paramount Week, and this year' the- Paramount organisation is offering attractive cash prizes to theatre managers in addition to the elaborate silver shield, which is competed for each year. Among the Paramount pictures which will be screening in the near future are “WeTe Not Dressing,” the new Bing Crosby musical, with Carole Lombard, Leon Errol, Ethel Merman, George Bums and Grade Allen; “His Double Life,” with Roland Young and Lillian Gish; “All of Me,” featuring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, George Raft and Helen Mack; Lanny Ross in “ Melody in Spring,” with Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland and Ann Sothern; “The Trumpet Blows,” featuring George Raft, with Adolphe Meiijou and Frances Drake; -'Eight Girls in a Boat,” with Douglass Montgomery and Dorothy Wilson;' the W. C. -Fields comedy, “ You’re Telling Me,” with Adrienne Ames, Joan Marsh and Larry, (“Buster”) Crabbe; and “She Mads Her Bed,” with Richard Aden and Sally Ellers.

During the present year, Paramount has carefully groomed no fewer than 30 new players. Such names as Bing CrosbVj Mae West, Lanny Ross, Sir Guy Standing, Evelyn Venable and numerous others have all risen to the top ranks of screen players since the 1933 Paramount Week. What will 1934 have in store for us?