Old Ironsides and Jazz Singer Headline Theaters
The Fair features Old Ironsides with an all star cast. The Mission presents The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson. Rialto shows Chicago After Midnight by Ralph Ince with a Chicago underworld theme. Hoxie appears in person at the Liberty as Back Fire plays. Gloria Swanson moves toward United Artists projects as Greta Garbo casting shifts create studio talk.
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Ironsides
Mission
al Jolson
Rialto
Chicago
Liberty
Hoxie
Harry Hunt
Imperial Recording Orchestra
Midwest
Rialto Theater
Ralph Ince
FBO
Ince
Jack Hoxie
Liberty Theater
Braun sues Der Tag for libel over hunting remarks
Berlin April 5 Otto Braun Prussian premier filed a libel suit against nationalist paper Der Tag over a critique of his hunting. The piece claimed Braun acts like an old time aristocrat with constant trigger finger. Der Tag responded by noting Braun denounced nationalist criticisms as silly and absurd.
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Fy International News Service
Berlin
der Tag
Otto Braun
Braun
Schorfheide
Nimrod Braun
Ger
Kaiser
Casting Choices For The Constitution Film Revealed
Screen tests were taken for candidates before Charles Farrell’s casting. George Bancroft fits the gigantic master gunner role perfectly. Wallace Beery is the ideal mate on the windjammer Esther. Esther Ralston was chosen as heroine after many auditions. Johnnie Walker chosen as heroic Stephen Decatur. Two thousand extras include a diverse cast of sailors and riggers for fifty 1804 model windjammers.
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Charles Farrell
George Bancroft
Bancroft
Esther
Wallace Beery
Beery
Esther Ralston
Johnnie Walker
Stephen Decatur
Walker
Commodore
United States
English Outlook For Business Brightens In Britain
Charles A. McCurdy, president of the Advertising Association, told the Newcastle Advertising Club that national advertising outlays rose from 500 million to 750 million dollars since 1923. He said advertisers are beginning to feel the benefits and that the 1928 outlook is brighter than 1927.
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International News Service
Newcastle-On-Tyne
Charles A. McCurdy
The
Advertising Association
Newcastle Advertising Club
Britain
Yale English Bulldog Becomes New Mascot Dougford Peter
New Haven Conn April 5 Yale students gain a mascot with the arrival of Dougford Peter an English bulldog once linked to the Handy Dan legend He belongs to Fd Leader famed rowing coach and was sent by John Hay Whitney Yale 1026 He will visit Gales Ferry in June as crew mascot and may sit on the sidelines in the bowl next fall.
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Jim Boyd
New York
Hell's Kitchen
Chicago
Boyd
Ince
Jola Mendex
James Mason
Helen Jerome Eddy
Victor McLaglen
Hobart Bosworth
Big Vic
Life Guards
London
Cobalt
Canada
Hollywood
Kalgoorlie
Australia
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Bagdad
Bosworth
Arctic
San Francisco
Mexico
Herman
Magician
Far West
McLaglen and
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
International News Service
New Haven, Conn
Yale
Brown
Army
Dougford Peter
Dougford
Peter
John Hay Whitney
Payne Whitney
Gales Ferry
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Snoeblights
BY Nida
Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye
Gloria Swanson
Paris
Gloria
United Artists
United Artists Pictures
Mary Pickford
Norma Talmadge
Lillian Gish
Corinne Griffith
Wilma Banky
Dolores del Rio
Gilda Gray
Alla Nazimova
Norma Shearer
Dorothy Gish
Edna Purviance
Mae Marsh
Made Bellamy
Evelyn Brent
Carol Dempster
Mary Philbin
Alice Joyce
Mary Alden
Billie Dove
Lois Moran
Florence Turner
Clare Eames
Mary Astor
Belle Bennett
Estelle
Greta Garbo
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Clarence Brown
Greta
Kenneth Hawks
Milton Sills
Beverly Hills
Fd. Nugent
James Cruze
Monta Bell
Jolson
Hambone Kings
Smilin
Sobbin
Robin Bobbin
Jimmy Gleason
University of California
Jimmy
Paramount
New England
E Wallace Reer
Paramount Picture
Id Ironsides
Grove’s
Vitaphone
Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra
Panhandle
Hall’s
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
A Dent Theatre
71Th Heaven
Wolgamot
Richwood
Dan
John Drinkwater
Amarillo
Tri-State Fair Association
South
R. T. Emmett
Polk Street
Styleplus
New York City
Bert Levy
Stetson
Crossett
Potter County
City Auditorium
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