"The Life and Loves of VICTOR HERBERT" The Glamorous Career of the Most Beloved of American Composers, Idol of Broadway and the Nation!

THRILLING STORY . .. Out of the real life of the Master of Operetta Paramount has fashioned a screen play that packs in its telling the romance, heartbreak, triumph and glory of the greatest light opera composer of our times. Victor Herbert's early days, his first love, his debut in America, great moments in his musical career, opening nights of his operettas, backstage drama, and his final triumph ... all are told against the pulsating life of the Broadway that knew Diamond Jim, Fritzi Scheff, Mary Garden, Oscar Hammerstein, Florenz Ziegfeld, and many other great figures of the gaslight era I

THRILLING MUSIC ... From the pen of Victor Herbert, among whose immortal operettas are "Naughty Marietta," "Mlle. Modiste," "Natoma," "Babes in Toyland," "The Fortune Teller" ... among whose ever-remembered songs are "Kiss in the Dark" and ":Riss Me Again"... comes the music which will glorify this picture. His melodies are the greatest favorites of the radio listening public. His audience is numbered in the millions ... and although he is gone, his memory will live in "The Life and Loves of Victor Herbert."

A GREAT CAST ... For the name part, Paramount will choose a star of the first magnitude who can play to the hilt this fun-loving genius, whose passion for song and wine and good living made him the most popular man in the theatre of -his time. Supporting players will be picked with an eye to the grand musical possibilities of the production as well as for box-office power.