GRAND SHOWING “DERELICT”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)

GRAND SHOWING “DERELICT”

DRAMA OF THE SEA. GEORGE BANCROFT FEATURED. “Derelict, 77 the George Bancroft starring Paramount picture, which is now at the Grand Theatre, is real drama, filmed on a spectacular scale. Mountainous ships battling monster seas; terrific tropical storms; a rescue at sea; two vessels crashing head-on in a dense fog. Bancroft is seen as a belligerent, twofisted sea captain, lighting to keep a sluggish tramp steamer afloat through the fury of a tropical storm. Out of the angry night comes the frantic staccatto signal of a ship in distress — *3.0.8.' *S.O.S. 7 —and he knows that, aboard the floundering craft is the one man in the world he hates, and the woman who double-crossed him. That ’s the climactic situation of “Derelict. 77 Paramount went to sea to film this picture, which was taken almost entirely aboard ship, off the coast of southern California. Nine ships, equipped with all the required filming paraphernalia, comprised the fleet, and a number of technical experts directed operations.

Lilyan Tashman, Paramount, featured player, is planning a trip to Europe this summer.

j Heien Johnson, Paramount actress did her first work before the earner in an amateur film made for a magazin contest. Josef von Sternberg, director of Para mount’s “An American Tragedy 77 is talented oil painter and sketcher an frequently devotes his leisure hours t work with brush and easel. Celebrated comedians and corned ennes of both stage and screen mate up the all-star east of “Fifty Millio Frenchmen, 77 the Warner Bros, an Vitaphone technicolour comedy spccia The distinguished group of comedian is headed by Olsen and Johnson, whil Helen Broderick, Claudia Dell, an Vera Gordon have important fenunin roles in this story of Americans in Ga Paris. James Hall, who plays the male lea , in Columbia’s “Good Bad Girl, 77 oppoi ite Mae Clark, headed East for Indian: polis immediately after completing h : work in Columbia 7 s 1 * The Good Ba Girl. 77 He is scheduled for a fe’ weeks of vaudeville before returnin to Hollywood.