“PARAMOUNT WEEK”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 186, 10 August 1935, Page 14

“PARAMOUNT WEEK”

v SELECTED ENTERTA T NMENT. PROGRAMMES Full REGENT. “A real treat, in a reel treat" i- a rather neat wav of summarising what is in store for Wangknui picturegoers during the first week in September. That’s the period when the Regent Theatre will unite with other leading picture houses throughout the world in celebrating the internationally famous “Paramount Week.” Literally speaking, Paramount Week means a week of joy for all those who find in the modern motion picture a p’casurable relaxation from the worries and cares of the day. The management of (ho. Regent Theatre have compacted arrangements with the Wellington office of Paramount Pictures, which enabled them to screen programmes of a particularly hgh entertainment standard during this festive season. The programmes to be presented arc an example of the really great pictures that will make their appearance at this theatre in the near future. Here they arc . . . “Car 99,” the super-charged story of radio patrols, who cram their reckless lives with artion, drama, peril and romance, and it features that celebrated actor Sir Guy Standing; “Macfadden’s Flats,” the most famous Scotch v. Irish comedy of th?, silent days as a riot of hurricane hilarity; and the already famous “Ruggles of Red Gap,” which bodsts the following amazing cast: Charles Laughton. Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts, Ro and Young and Leila Hyams.

Spring Byington, featured in Columbia’s “Love Ale Forever” starring Grace Moore, has made all arrange merits to take up dress designing if she had not succeeded as an actress.

Every player in Columbia's “Light Bells’’ featuring Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern and John Buckler, had to demonstrate to director Roy Neill that he or she could swim—and swim well — before they were granted a role in this deep-sea picture.

'Two years ago Victor wliertzingc” heard a young man sing and tried to interest, various Hollywood proluccrs in the boy’s potentialities. Plenty uf deaf ears were turned in hls direction, for Hollywood producers were not a bit interested in men with voices. The boy returned to New Y’ork, sang in “Smilin' Thru,” “The School for Scandal,’’ “The Cat and the Fiddle,” made his way in radio work and was lina.ly asked to join the Philadelphia Opera Co., where he made countless successful appearances. Recently Schertzinger saw his faith in the singer substantiated. Columbia Studios signed him to a long-term cont"act. Michael Bartlett is his name and he will be seen in Grace Moore’s picture, “Love Me Forever,” which Schert zinger directed.