New Programme of 200 Talkies for Paramount

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 25

New Programme of 200 Talkies for Paramount

Well-Known Players Elevated to Stardom PICTURE FOR “BLACK CROWS” Paramount's latest programme, beginning on August 1, includes 2 00 talking and musical pictures, according to recent advice from Hollywood. It is intended, also, to inaugurate a sound and talking newsreel. It is announced that starring status has been given Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Richard Arlen and Ruth Chatterton. Through its distribution organisation a total of 68 feature length productions, SI one and two-reel short features and 52 issues of the new Paramount Sound News will be released. Among the outstanding features to be presented mm season will be: “The Four Feathers,” Cooper and Schoedsack natural adventure spectacle, produced in Hollywood and Africa by the makers of “Chang,” and featuring Clive Brook, William Powell, Fay Wray and Richard Arlen. “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu,” directed by Row-land V. Lee from Sax Rohmer's Oriental mystery, with

Warner Oland, O. P. Heggie, Neil Hamilton and Jean Arthur. The Four Marx Brothers in “The Coconnuts,” a lavish singing, talking and dancing production with Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, and directed by Joseph Santley and Robert Florey; Irving Berlin wrote the songs. “The Dance of Life,” from the smashing Broadway hit, “Burlesque,”

with Hal Shelly anti Nancy Carroll heading the cast. Directed by John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland, it features some spectacular stage numbers done in technic-olour. “Why Bring That Up?” starring Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows, with Evelyn Brent and Harry Green, and directed by George Abbott. Octavus Roy Cohen wrote the story. “Glorifying the American Girl,” capitalising the prestige of Florenz Zeigfeld in the amusement world, in a story by J. P. McEvoy and Millard Webb. Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson and others wrote the songs, and Technicolour is used in the preten tious Follies sequence. Mary Eaton and Dan Healy are featured. The first original operetta written for the screen, “The Love Parade,” starring Maurice Chevalier and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. “The Vagabond King," in which Dennis King will star. Ludwig Berger will direct. Harold Lloyd’s first talking comedy. “Welcome, Danger,” directed by Malcolm St. Clair, showing the star in amusing adventures in Chinatown.