PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 6

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Tli.it stories of the stnge and back of tlio talkie pictures is again revealed by '"Melody Lane," tlio feature at the Paramount Theatre this week. Eddie Dupres (Eddie Leonard) and his wife, Dolores, start out in life as a vaudeville- song and dauce team, but what is and would continue to bo a merely popular act is broken up by the wife's ambitious. Disgusteil by her husband's views, she leaves him taking with her tholr two-year-old daughter. While she climbs to bo a musical comedy star, he, broken-hearted at his wife's attitude, sinks to the level of a "prop" man. The one connectlnß link between them now Is their daughter, who, by her childish simplicity, mates them both realise that tliclr 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 the tap dancing Is excellent. A Paramount Sound Xews and the first of the series of dlaloguo "Collegians" complete a thoroughly entertaining programme.

"Noah's Arlt," the film version of the world's greatest calamity, as chronic-led in the Booic of CcnesiK. in which Dolores Cosli'Uo lias live leading role, opens next Friday at the Paramount Theatre. It la said to mure than live up to all the extravagant claims that have been made as to its magnificence and grandeur. The acting of Miss Costello, of Noah Beery, George O'Brien, and tho other -principals is distinct and adds power to tho dramatic scenes, and enlivens th.c comedy. Tho story Is in two pacts—a modern war story which culminates in the destruction of a French village and tho imprisoning of llio principal characters under the buildings destroyed by tho war, a flood of steel and Wood which is the device used for carrying tho same set of characters back into tho days of Noah and the Biblical flood of water. Jllss Coslello, the Mary of the modern story, beloved of Travis, a young American, is tho Miriam of tho flood sequences, while Travis, acted liy George O'Brien, hecomes Japcth, son of Xoah, in -love with Miriam. Noali- Beery, tile lustful Russian officer in tho war sequences, becomes King Nephlllm, who commands the sacrifice of the virgin Miriam to the idol Jaghut.