Comedy Mystery On Capitol Bill
A Capitol Theater program mixes two films for today. Father Makes Good stars Raymond Walburn and Walter Catlett with a tax on milk funding a golf course causing a rift between the mayor and a friend who refuses milk. Side Show follows a Treasury agent smashing a gem smuggling ring through a carnival full of danger.
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Walter Catlett
Peter Scully
Catlett
Henry Latham
Walburn
Don McGuire
Tracey Roberts
Treasury Department
Waiting lists fill Sydney kindergartens three years ahead
Thirty five Sydney kindergartens report waiting lists are booked up to three years in advance. Parents struggle to secure early placements as demand outpaces supply, with many preschools listing vacancies only for infants and younger children.
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Sydney
Australia
Love That Brute heads cast of gangland comedy
Paul Douglas and Jean Peters star in Love That Brute at the State Theater opening tomorrow. The Twentieth Century-Fox farce, a witty send up of the Chicago gangster era, also features Cesar Romero Joan Davis Keenan Wynn and Arthur Treacher. Douglas crafts a mobster with a basement luxury twist as Peters shows a glamor governess turn while the film recreates twenties scenes and songs.
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King and Queen Pick The Mudlark For Royal Film
London oct 18 king George vi and queen elizabeth will see the movie the mudlark on oct 30 the royal selection followed their interest in queen victoria stories irene dunne plays queen victoria queen mary advised on the film and arranged a private viewing at home the royal committee faced a delicate choice due to the film’s treatment of royal history.
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Queen Victoria on film sparks British controversy
The committee sought Buckingham Palace guidance over a film about Queen Victoriastarring Miss Dunne the only American in the cast. The king's reply hinted at viewing the same version for public release. Alec Guinness plays Disraeli Beatrice Campbell is the queen's lady in waiting and 12 year old Andrew Ray appears as The Mudilark.
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Gas price hike hits Alegria cooking costs
It costs more to cook in Alegria as poorer coal raises the price of cooking gas, increasing household expenses for meals and daily chores.
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Bob Hope Once Boxed as Packy East Before Comedy
Bob Hope once boxed under the name Packy East in a short lived stint for Paramount newsreels. He soon found stand up and film offered bigger pay with less punishment, shifting to a career as a comedian.
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Beach Boy Ray Milland Keeps Newport Beach Retreats
Actor Ray Milland, star of Paramounts copper Canyon in Technicolor, spends weekends and all off days at his beach home in Newport Beach, a popular Southern California resort.
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Jimmy Stewart eyes role in The Greatest Show on Earth
Star wants the part of a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup in The Greatest Show on Earth. Cecil B DeMille is preparing Paramount's next epic.
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Cecil DeMille
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Julia Faye to appear in The Greatest Show on Earth
Julia Faye, noted favorite of silent film days, will chalk up her 68th performance in Cecil B DeMilles pictures with an appearance in The Greatest Show on Earth. She first starred in a DeMille film in 1915.
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Secret Fury Seethes In A Spinning Mystery Melodrama
The film Secret Fury plays today and tomorrow at the Theater with Colbert, Ryan, Kelly, and Cowl. A false marriage claim triggers a tense murder frameup as the heiress fights to clear her name and expose a conspiratorial plot and forged documents.
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Robert Ryan
Paul Kelly
Jane Cowl
Ryan
Claudette Colbert
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Pilip Ober
Veteran Rex Lease returns to Paramount opposite stars
Rex Lease, veteran of the silent Westerns, reappears in Paramounts Copper Canyon a Technicolor outdoor drama. The cast includes Ray Milland Hedy Lamarr Macdonald Carey Mona Freeman and Harry Carey Jr marking Lease first return to films in years.
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Harry Carey, Jr
De Mille Develops New Lighting Method for Circus Epic
Cecil B De Mille pioneers a new lighting approach for The Greatest Show on Earth to lift the camera and illuminate sets from below and above, aiming to enhance spectacle in the projected circus epic.
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Sneak Preview Set For State Friday
A Friday night sneak preview at State theater features a secret comedy show. Admission remains the same and no advance prices are listed.
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State Theater
Roach Comedy Is Liberty Feature Here Comes Trouble
Hal Roach Studios presents Here Comes Trouble at the Liberty Theater today and tomorrow. The Cine color comedy follows a brash reporter with a photographic memory entangled in the banner headline murder of a burlesque queen. William Tracy stars as the reporter with Joe Sawyer as his former topkick. Beverly Loyd plays the romance with Emory Parnell as the editor and Beverly's father.
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Hal Roach Studios
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Nolan shifts to comedy in The Lemon Drop Kid
Lloyd Nolan abandons heavy drama to co star with Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in Paramounts The Lemon Drop Kid a Broadway gangster role played for laughs through light hearted escapade and pratfalls the film also features era star power and breezy humor across a festive release frame.
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