Film and Book Bits Stir Up Early Variety in 1930s
A collage of titles and snippets shows Cecil B. DeMille's The Volga Boatman Fox News and stage comedy acts like Battling Danger and a big musical girls show. The Still Alarm The Green Archer Felix the Cat Pathe News Betty Roosevelt in Fast Fighting and Spat family comedy with Avsep’s Fables appear in a bustling array of early entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil DeMille
Fox News
Deandi-Art “ix
And
Bill
Tre
the Green Archer
Felix the Cat
Pathe News
Iberty
Betty Roosevelt
Avsep
Elinor Fair Leads In The Volga Boatman At The Fair Theatre
Gloria Swanson and Constance Talmadge parallels highlight Elinor Fair in The Volga Boatman at the Fair Theatre for two days starting today. De Mille selects her as a rising star after The Miracle Man Kismet Driven and Through the Back Door, with Konrad Borcovicci and Lenore Coffee shaping the cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloria Swanson
Constance Talmadge
Barbara la Marr
Ceci BR. de Mille
Elinor Fair
Miss Fair
Fair Theater
Beatrice Joy
Bebe Daniels
Wallace Reid
Red la Rocque
de Mille
Irl
Fox
Volga Boatman
Konrad Borcovicci
Lenore Coffee
William
The Still Alarm at Mission Hollywood
The Still Alarm a Universal Jewel plays at the Mission today and Tuesday with Helene Chadwick William Russell and others in a Los Angeles fire department cast. Real-fire danger and stunts are recreated as forty firemen perform under Battalion Chief Lawrence B. Andrews, with many veteran horses and apparatus. The feature is complemented by Hal Roach's shift toward two reel comedies led by Our Gang and plans for forty 1926 releases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission
William Russell
John T. Murray
Edward Hearn
Los Angeles
Lawrence B. Andrews
Heinz
Hollywood
Hal Roach
Roach
Reach
Lionel Barrymore
Theda Bara
Mabel Normand
Charley Chase
Sadler Company Presents The Love Test at Gasser Park Tent
Harley Sadler’s company will stage The Love Test at their tent near Gasser park Tuesday night. The Love Test is a NY run show praised by Sadler as one of the best in months, tracing Tom Hudson’s pull away from bad company guided by maternal love. Wednesday or Thursday may feature Tempest and Sunshine, a book play, while chemistry topics fill the crowded program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley Sadler
Gasser Park
New York
Tom Hudson
Fast Company
Mother Love
Cen Pery Ie
Pastor Praises Convention Benefits for Amarillo
Rev. Virgil Fisher of San Jacinto Methodists lauds the West Texas chamber of commerce for promoting Amarillo. He cites wide press coverage, strong hospitality, orderly conduct, and the ending of open saloons as proof of progress and civic virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Fisher
San Jacinto
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
West
Plains
Bungalow Grocery Robbery Again In One Month
A robber entered the Bungalow Grocery at 704 West Sixteenth Street through the back door last night and took 75 cents from the cash register. Police fingerprint teams were on site early this morning and several prints were recovered. This marks the second robbery in a month and third in a year for the store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bungalow
West Sixteenth Street
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Lenore Vv
Konrad Bercovici
Nevermore
William Boyd
Victor Varconi
Julia Faye
Theodore Kosloff
Russia
Cecil B. de Mille
Helene
Helene Chadwick
Russell
Travers
Edna Marion
Murray
Dot Farley
Erin la Bissoniere
Jacques d’Auray
Edward Laemmle
Willan Russel
Sadler Company
Hoemany
Big Tent
Wonderfdl
Wenderitte
Reese
Shamalin
Club Royale
Morrison
Ewe
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