CIVIC’S NEXT CHANGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1034, 26 July 1930, Page 14

CIVIC’S NEXT CHANGE

“PARAMOUNT ON PARADE” “Love Time,” written by Elsie Janis and Jack King, and brilliantly staged, brings Charles (“Buddy”) Rogers and Lillian Roth, Paramount’s newest comedienne, forward in a specialty number of fun, frolic, and music, in Paramount’s all-star festival of the stars, “Paramount on Parade.” “Buddy” and Lillian sing the new song sensation, “Any Time’s the Time to Fall in Love,” with a cuckoo clock setting, with a boy and girl chorus. Miss Roth has never played opposite “Buddy” before, but she made a hit with Lupino Lane in Chevalier’s “The Love Parade,” and in her dramatic featured role in “The Vagabond King.” “Paramount on Parade,” in which “Love Time” is one of the 15 joyous interludes, was supervised by Elsie Janis, who built it on a pattern of intimacy. Miss Janis describes “Paramount on Parade,” which opens shortly at the Civic Theatre, as a “great big party, with Hollywood’s favourite players.” “Paramount on Parade” goes one better than its title indicates. Freed from the onus of rules, characterisations. and dramatic suspense, the Paramounteers pitch joyfully into this bit of fun. They run through reel after reel of comedy, sketch, melody, colour, song, dance, and ensemble with a playtime spirit that reveals unexpected insights into versatility and personality.