PARAMOUNT THEATRE.
That stories of the stage and back of. the Etage life provide excellent material for talkie pictures is again revealed by "Melody Lane," tho feature at the Paramount Theatre this week. Eddie Dupres (Eddie Leonard) and his wife, Dolores, start out in life as a vaudeville song and dance team, but what is and would continue to be a merely popular act is broken up by the wife's ambitions. Disgusted by her husband's views, she leaves him, taking with her their two-year-old daughter. While she climbs to be a musical comedy star, he, broken-hearted at his wife's attitude, sinks to the level of a "prop" man. The ouo connecting link between them now Is their daughter, who, by her childish' simplicity, makes them both realise that their individual points of view have faults. The singing of Eddie Leonard is quite one of the features of the picture. Especially is this so in "Beautiful," while tho tap dancing is excellent. A Paramount Sound News and the first of the series of dialogue
"Collegians" complete a thoroughly entertaining programme.
"Noah's Ark," the spectacular picture, about which many stories have appeared in recent months, will be seen at the Paramount Theatre, commencing next Friday, for extended season presentation. It was more than three years in production:. . The cast of "Noah's Ark" includes Dolores Costello, "as star, with George O'Brien, and Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Guinn Williams, Paul M'Allistcr. Nigel le Brulier, Anders Randolf, Armand Kalix, Myrna Loy, William V.. Mong, Malcolm Waite, Noble Johnson, Otto Hoffman, and Joe Bonnmo. "Noah's Ark" is not a Biblical story. The story begins just before the outbreak of the war, and the victims of a train wreck, on reaching Paris, find the conflict is on. Then they are carried into the tumult of the nations. At one point a bomb hits a building where they have taken refuge, and they are thrown into the cellar. There a chaplain begins to tell them of Noah and the Flood, and as they are carried hack to the ancient time, the story is made a reality. There are many passages of great beauty and astonishing reality, but the most tremendous is in the effects during. the Flood, and the scenes preceding it. - -
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 5
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