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Show Paramount features operettas each Tuesday until December 4 The second in a series of six world-famous operettas, "The Merry Widow," will be seen next Tuesday, November 6, at the Paramount Theater in Prove- The second operetta, "The Great Waltz," is scheduled for the following Tuesday, November Nov-ember 13; the third, "Sweethearts," "Sweet-hearts," Nov. 20; "The Choc-loate Choc-loate Soldier," Nov. 27 and "Girl of the Golden West," Dec. 4. Glamorous romance, beautiful beauti-ful women, whimsical humor and the haunting strains of Franz Lehar's famous music blend into entertainment of wonderous charm in Ernest Lubitsch production of "The Merry Widow," one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's greatest musical mus-ical hits., Starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, with Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier and Minna Gombell heading a large supporting cast, the picture tells the story of the rich widow and the count whom the ruler of a mythical king-dam king-dam sends to Paris to win her in order to keep her money, in the country. How they fall in love, their gay revels in Paris, the romantic episode of the dreamy "Merry Widow Waltz," the gay night at Maxim's Max-im's afford unremitting musical music-al entertainment. The original Lehar songs, including the famous waltz, "Vilia," "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Melody of Laughter," "Widows "Wid-ows Are Gay," "Tonight Will Teach Me to Forget," and "I'm Going to Maxim's," are all sung in the picture. For sheer opulence, the picture pic-ture is a stand-out. The impressive im-pressive size of the many palace pal-ace scenes, the brilliance and sparkle of the great Ambassador's Ambassa-dor's Ball and the spectacle of the sequence at Maxim's cafe in Paris with hundreds of dancers dan-cers and an orchestra of a hundred pieces make "The Merry Widow" one of the most beautiful motion pictures ever protographed. Highlights of the story include in-clude the first whimsical meeting meet-ing of Sonia (Jeanette Mac-Donald) Mac-Donald) and Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) when he feeds her watchdog and gets into her castle garden; Danilo's quarrel with the Ambassador at Maxim's; Max-im's; Sonia's departure for Paris and her adventure with Danilo; the discovery of the plot at the Embassy; the king's plan to abdicate; the trial scene and the denouement in prison. Ernes Lubitsch directed "The Merry Widow" from a screen play by Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson. Lubitsch Lu-bitsch has given the screen some of its outstanding musical hits and this picture represents him at his best! |