STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 15

STRAND

“PARIS” The coming of the talkies spelled tho retirement of many notable foreign stars from the films. But Irene Bordoni is one exception to this rule. Instead of causing her retirement they brought her to the screen for the first time. Miss Bordoni’s French accent, famous for years on the __________ <

IUI J Cell D Ull me stage, is a decided asset to her screen career, and is seen and heard at the Strand Theatre where she makes her film debut in “Paris.” On repeated occasions the French star declined to enter silent pictures When the talkies came, giving her an opportunity to sing

and to speak her quaint lines. Miss Bordoni readily signed a contract with First National Pictures to appear in “Paris,” the screen version of her latest stage success. Jack Buchanan, English stage star, plays opposite Miss Bordoni in this all-talking, all-singing, part-colour photoplay. Others in the featured cast include Louise Closser Hale, who played in the stage version of “Paris,” Jason Robards, last seen in “The Isle of Lost Ships,” Zasu Pitts and Margaret Fielding, all well known to tho motion picture world.

A particularly enjoyable programme of shorter talkie items is also presented.