PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 5

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

That stories of the stage and back of the stage life provide excellent material for talkie pictures is again revealed by "Melody Lane,'' the feature at the Paramount Theatre this week. Eddie Dupfes (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 one 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 la "Beautiful," while the 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 he 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'Allister, Nigel lo Bruller, Anders Randolf, Armand Kallz, Myrna Loy, William V; Mong, Malcolm Walte, Noblo Johnson, Otto Hoffman, and Joe Bonomo. "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 back to the ancient time, the storyls 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.