FILM DEAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18937, 12 February 1936, Page 14

FILM DEAL

COMING ATTRACTIONS AMALGAMATED THEATRES BRILLIANT STARS Amalgamated .Theatres, Limited, announce that negotiations have been concluded and contracts entered into for the purchase of supplies from three major film distribution companies,; namely: Fox ■■ Film Corporation (Australasia), Limited, Fox-Gaumont-British, Fox-20th Century, KKO Badio Pictures (Australasia), Limited, anil the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Limited. The supplies from these major exchanges will be screened at the. King's Theatre, Gisborne. i Big. productions from 20th-century Studios include: Ronald Colnmn in 'i'The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," produced by Darryl Zanuck; Lawrence Tibbett in "Metropolitan;" Warner Baxter in "Prisoner of-Shark Island;" Message to Garcia," with Wallace Beery; "Professional' Soldier," with Victor MeLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew, of "David Copperfield" fame;. "Show them up Mercy," with Rochelle Hudson. ; From the Fox studios will come four Shirlev Temple pictures, including two already named, "Littlest Rebel" and "Captain January;" "Ramona," with Rochelle Hudson and John Boles, is the first big outdoor picture to be produced entirely in teehnicolour; Warner Baxter, in "King of Burlesque;" tw,o Jane Withers pictures, "Paddy o'Day ; ' and "Gentle Julia;" "The Country Beyond," a Janies Oliver Curwoocl story starring Eoehello Hudson and Buck, of "Call of the Wild" fame; "The Country Doctor," featuring the Dionne quintuplets. The Gaumont-British Studios' offering? will be: Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn in "Foreign Affairs;" Jessie Matthews in '' First a Girl;" Jac k Hulbert in "Jack of all Trades;" Richard Dix and Helen Vinsen in "The Tunnel;" Conrad Veidt in "King of the Damned" and "Passing of the 3rd Floor Back;" Walter Huston in "Rhodes of Africa; " Madeli'nf Carroll in "Secret Agent" and Rudyard Kipling's immortal story, Three." . .'The RKO Studios' features will be Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 'two pictures, "Top Hat?' and <<Follow; the Fleet;" Lily Pons, _ grand opera's glamorous diva, starring in "I f Dream too Much;" Herbert Marshall and Ann Harding in "Indestructible Mrs. Talbot;" Ginger Rogers in "la Person;", Barbara Stanwyck in • "Annie Oakley;" Gene Raymond in Geo. M. Cohen's "Seven Keys to Baldpate;" Frank Buck's successor to "' Bring" 'em Back Alive," " Fang and Claw;" Ann e Shirley, star, of "Anne of Green Gables," in "Chatterbox;" Wheeler" and Woolsey in "The Wild West."

. From Universal Studios there will be Irene Dunne in two pictures, Edna Furber's "Show Boat" and "The Magnificent Obsession;" Margaret .Sullavan in "Next; Time we Live;" William" Powell in "My Man Godfrey" (temporary title) and "Sutter's Gold"; Victor Hugo's "Hunchback, of Notre Dame;".two Margaret .Sullavan productions not yet titled; Martha Eggerth, Continental star, in "Song of Joy;" Boris Karloff, in "Bluebeard," "Phantom ,of the Opera, " and '' Dracula 's Daughter,'' and three thrillers, ."Giant Plane," "The Destroyer." and "Flying Squadroni'" i Supports from the Universal Studios will include*: Graham McNamee's "Universal Newsfe'cl,'*'"Oswald tin' Rabbit'? cartoons,* arid "Camera Thrills." i .