Colour Talkie

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 25

Colour Talkie

“ Burlesque” Marks New Achievement SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT A new achievement is announced by Paramount. For the first time in the studio’s experience, sound has been successfully combined on natural colour film. John W. Hicks, junr., managing director of Paramount Pictures in Australia, says that the entire “Follies’* sequence of the all-talking picture, “Burlesque,” will be filmed in Technicolour and that the sound of voices and the music from the 36-piece orchestra will be on the same strip of celluloid. George Manker Watters, who, with Arthur Plopkins, wrote the play that ran in New York for more than a year, is now in Hollywood writing the screen play and dialogue. Four members of the original New York cast are at the studios, namely, Hal Skelly, Ralph Theadore, Charles D. Brown and Oscar Levant. Nancy Carroll is featured with. Skelly in the cast, which is under the direction of John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland. Eighty dancing and show girls will appear in the lavish “Follies” sequence in an intricate and spectacular routine directed by Earl Lindsay, a well-known New York stage dance director.