NATIONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 14

NATIONAL

“FIRST KISS” TO-MORROW The fine underworld drama, •’Forgotten Faces,” starring Olga Bacianova, Clive Brook and William Powell, will be screened for the last time at the National Theatre this evening. The present cycle of motion picture production will have sea backgrounds, according to a survey recently made among several film producers. Paramount, always keen to give the public i what it wants, and when it is wanted, has just produced “The First Kiss,” co-starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, which will bo shown at the National to-morrow. “The First Kiss” is adapted from the story, “Four Brothers,” from the pen of Tristram Tupper. It has a sea background, the locale being the cyster fishing grounds in Chespeake Bay. Incidentally, the entire picture was taken at tli© exact locale called for in tho original story, it being St. Michaels, Maryland, and adjacent territory. The public has just undergone an extreme taste for underworld and aviation stories. As in the present case, Paramount was first to realise this, and contributed many fine achievements to the screen along these lines. “Wings,” “The Legion of the Condemned,” “Forgotten Faces” and “The Brag Net” are fitting examples of this company’s timeliness with giving the public what it wants. Now sea stories or stories with a sea background are in extreme favour with the public. This fact was brought to light by Paramount’s own system of determining what the motion picture fans want to se. Hence “The First Kiss” was filmed and there are at least five motion pictures, in which tho sea is tho base of the stories, in preparation or actually now in production. The two popular screen lovers, Fay Way and Gary Cooper, have an excellent supporting cast in their second co-starring picture. Heading this list are Lane Chandler, Xieslie Fenton and Paul Fix. It was directed by Rowland V. Lee, who is noted for his directing of Pola Negri successes. Another excellent programme of music has been arranged for Mr. J. Bartlett’s augmented orchestra for the accompaniment of this picture.