1935 SCREEN FARE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 14

1935 SCREEN FARE

Paramount Pictures’ List

WELL-KNOWN ADAPTATIONS

Contracts have been entered into between several prominent theatre owners in New l Zealand and Paramount Pictures. Amongst the theatre interests who have bought the output of Paramount for screening during 1935 are the FullerHayward Theatre Corporation Limited, J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation Limited, Kemball Theatres Limited and Messrs John Fuller and Sons. Mr. S. H. Craig, general manager for Paramount Pictures in New Zealand, in announcing the completion of the new film deal, said that Paramount would release during the coming season a wide variety of film fare. Prominent in the new schedule were such pictures as Cecil B. do Mille’s “Cleopatra,” with Claudette Colbert in the title role, Warren William as Caesar, Henry Wilcoxon as Marc Antony, lan Keith, Joseph Schildkraut, C. Aubrey Smith, Irving Pichel, Gertrude Michael, and a total of 8000 supporting players. “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” with Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone. Richard Cromwell, Sir Guy Standing and Colin Tapley is another picture for wheh the preparatory work started three years ago. , Mae West will appear in “Belle of the Nineties,” and possibly two other productions; and Francis Lederer, the new Czecho-Slovakian star, will make “The Pursuit of Happiness,” with Joan Bennett. 'Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles. Marlene Dietrich has commended “Caprice Espagnole,” by John Dots Passes, playwright and novelist, under Josef von Sternberg’s direction. Claudette Colbert has been cast for the lead in “The Gilded Ladv’’ and has also been mentioned for the title role in John van Druten s “There’s Always a Juliet,” with Herbert Marshall. "Ruggles of Red Gap” will star Charles Laughton, with Charlie Ruggles. Mary Boland and Sir Guy Standing; and Alice Hegan Rice’s famous classic, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” will be brought to the screen with Pauline Lord, a Broadway star, in the title role, W. C. Fields', Zasu Pitts, Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor.. . . Other productions include “Mississippi,” a showboat story, with Bing Crosby; “Ladies Should Listen.” a satirical comedy; “Now and , Forever”; “R.U.R.”; Karel Capek’s sensational Theatre Guild play, “20 Hours by Air” ; “Wagon Wheels," a new Western musical; “Enter Madame.” with Elissa Landi; “Limehouse Blues,” featuring George Raft, Anna May Wong and Jean Parker; Carl Brisson in "All the King’s Horses,” a sparkling light opera; Walter Wanger’s “The President Vanishes.” 11411 Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron; “Crime Without Passion,” the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur production, with Claude Rains (who will be remembered as “The Invisible Man”), Whitney Bourne, and Margo. Hecht and MacArthur will produce three other pictures for Paramount, the first of which will introduce to the screen Jimmy Savo, one of the stage's famous clowns, presented against the swirling background of the Russian revolution.