MAJESTIC

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

MAJESTIC

“DANGEROUS PARADISE” Tho programme which lias been delighting audiences at tho Majestic Theatre during the past week will have its final screening there today. It includes the two big talkies, “The Careless Age,” starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks, jun., and “Pointed Heels,” starring Helen Kane and William Powell.

After 12 pictures, which include some of Paramount’s biggest hits, Nancy Caroll, red-headed, dancing, singi’.ig, screen-player, will be seen at the Majestic Theatre tomorrow, in her first starring picture, “Dangerous Paradise.” It is a gripping story of South Sea love and adventure, from incidents in a-novel by Joseph Conrad. Miss Carroll followed a meteoric stage career with a swift rise to screen prominence. Her picture hits include “Abie’s Irish Rose,” “The Shopworn Angel,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Close Harmony,” “The Dance of Life” and “Illusion.” Her fan mail is exceeded in volume only by that of Clara Bow and Charles (Buddy) Rogers. She is beautiful. She can act. She can sing. She can dance. And she has “star” personality. As a member of an all-girl orchestra, Miss Carroll displays a new talent in “Dangerous Paradise.” She plays the violin. Menaced by the proprietor of the South Sea hotel, in which the orchestra plays. Nancy flees to a tiny island where Richard Arien, disappointed in love and embittered against all women, lives alone. She is interested in Arien but his cold aloofness makes her furious. However, when three brutal ne’er-do-wells from the hotel follow her to the island, planning to rob and kill Arien, her love triumphs in a breath-taking climax filled with action and suspense.

In addition to Arien, who has the leading male role, Warner Oland. popular portrayer of Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu, Gustav von SeyfTertltz, Francis McDonald and an all-star cast support Miss Carroll. William Wellman, director of the famous “Wings,” mad© the picture. New and unusual backgrounds, and a realy enthralling action-romance make this New Show World picture exceptional entertainment.

Hobart Henley, the director of Maurice Chevalier’s “The Big Pond,” has also ben selected to direct the French star’s next all-talking picture, “Too Milch Luck.” Rehearsals are now under way at the Paramount studios, end filming is to start shortly

Paramount’s uproariously funny musical comedy, “Honey.” starring Nancy Carroll, will shortly he released in New Zealand. The talking picture is adapted from the stage comedy success, “Come Out of the Kitchen.”