“PARIS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 18

“PARIS”

NEXT ATTRACTION AT STRAND Piquant Irene Bordoni, French accent and all, will be seen and heard here for the first time in a motion picture with the opening shortly of "Paris' at the Strand Theatre. The brilliant Broadway favourite was captured by the First NationalVitaphone studios to go out to Hollywood and make a talkie of her New ■york hit. The camera has caught the vivid personality of the actress, who began her career at the Theatre Varieties in Paris and has since become renowned in both hemispheres. "Paris" is the spicy story of a Boston family with Mayflower ancestry who land In the French capital to prevent the marriage of their son to an actress. It is an all-dialogue production with musical sequences depleting the French theatre. And some of the lavishly brilliant scenes are made in technieolour. Bordoni seems destined to become as popular with screen audiences as she was with New York theatregoers. In Hollywood she gained a large following as soon as the tirst "rushes" of her picture appeared. Through litaphonc another unique personality has been transferred from the stage to the synchronised screen. Jack Buchanan, English comedian and I.oulso dosser Hale, who played in the footlight production of "Paris,” take prominent supporting roles. Jason nobards. Margaret Fielding and Zazu Pitts are also in the cast.