NEW PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 14

NEW PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

"The Green Pastures."

The New Paramount Theatre has been thoroughly renovated and redecorated for its reopening tomorrow night with that remarkable and highlycontroversial film,. "The Green -Pastures " ' The management of the New Paramount announces that the premiere of "The Green Pastures" will take place at'the 8 o'clock performance tomorrow and thereafter there will be two performances daily at 2.15 and 8 p.m. No more fitting picture than "The Green Pastures" could have been secured to inaugurate the New Paramount's "first release" policy, for the picture has undoubtedly been at the back of everybody's mind for months. "The Green Pastures" has been criticised In many places because it ventures to personify the Lord as a negro preacher; the film was banned in England, Canada, and Australia, but the bans, were subsequently lifted in the two former countries. The whole story is in- the" light of a spiritual' vision, rather beautiful in its simplicity and its calmness, and impressively .philosophic. There ■ can be little criticism of the acting performances.because-the players are unknown and because the roles they play can scarcely' ;be cnti-. cised. . "The Green Pastures" commenced its New Zealand career ' by breaking records in Auckland, where itwas applauded by a wide sectiori.of the community. Along with numerous improvements now being carried out at the New Paramount is the installation of Western Electrics Mirrophonic Sound", which is claimed to provide perfect reproduction of the original which hitherto was merely a scientific ideal. . " ' '