PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 6

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

■ "Say It ...with Music," featuring Jack Payne and his bind, at the Paramount Theatre. Is given the character of a Him play by realistic acting by Percy Marmont, Evelyn Roberts,- Sybil Summerflcld, and Joyce Kennedy. The shock of an aeroplane trash during the war has turned Philip AVcsfrn, a composer, into a shadow of himself. ' Ho is shoirn being turned army by a Jewish publisher,- who says that symphonies are out of date, and that music, like cocktails, should have a kick in it to sell. " Outside the door he is run down by Jack Payne himself, who immediately recognises in Weston an old-friend in France, and who, in the worst of humours when faced to listen to syncopated music in the mess, sat 'down for a bet at the piano and disgustedly composed some jazz, himself. ' That melody,' played by Jack Payne's band, was what placed the famous orchestra on its feet, but Weston does not know anything about that, wartime matters being very hazy with him. If the end of the story is sensational, there Is plenty of liumour throughout, much, of it provided by a witty doctor who says the drollest things. Seldom does the first half of a programme merit description, but in this case thero are.five outstanding -supports. First ranks the, story of the pioneering of Xciv Guinea by aircraft, culminating in the landing of the big craft, of 98 feet wing spread, carrying orer forty natives to the1 mines inland. It Is something of a surprise to learn that the whole of an up-to-date gold dredge went up to the fields piecemeal by air. "Lynniouth," a beautiful scenic of the Deton coast, "Sea. Birds," the.story, of the nesting of gulls, pufllns, oyater catchers, and other seafowl amongst tba cIIITs 'and reeds, and "Our Bells Foundry" are all tyjiically British dims, with racy annotations. "Moonlight Sonata" Is a novel' fancy item wjth :«ondcrful sprite dancing. ■ :.. - •• ,; :■•■;