Four Marx Brothers Rise to Fame After Wild Vaudeville Beginnings
The Four Marx Brothers broke from a poor Texas vaudeville start when a mule incident spurred their act into insanity and audience acclaim. Their film Horse Feathers, directed by Norman McLeod, is praised as wilder and bolder than prior efforts. George M. Cohan leaves Paramount to head east for Broadway productions after The Phantom President.
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Ohio
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Groucho
Cohan
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George M. Cohan
Lopez Credits Astrology For Radio Stage Rise
Vincent Lopez attributes his radio and stage success to astrology and numerology studies, noting a guiding influence on his career in Paramount's The Big Broadcast.
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Vincent Lopez
Paramount
Red Headed Woman Comes to Nelsonville Theater
Katharine Harlow stars in Red Headed Woman adapted from the novel by Anita Loos. The film opens at the Nelsonville Majestic Theater with a famed cast led by Harlow, Morris, Stone and Boyer. A second item notes Colonial Inn in Put in Bay burned late last night.
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Jean Harlow
Nelsonville Majestic Theater
Hollywood
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Harlow
Bill
Lil
Colonial Inn
Put-In-Bay
Horsefeathers and More at Ohio Theaters This Week
Movie listings show the Marx Brothers in Horsefeathers at CALL BOARD venues including Sun Mon Tue Wed. COURT hosts Arrowsmith with Ronald Colman and The First Year with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell on Tue Wed Thu. The Boiling Point with Hoot Gibson plays Fri at CALL BOARD. Majestic screens Hold em Jail with Wheeler and Woolsey Sun Mon and The Most Dangerous Game with Joel McCrea Wed Thu. The Man Called Back with Conrad Nagel Fri Sat. Majestic Nelson presents Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow Sun Mon Tue Wed. Make Me a Star with Joan Blondell Tue. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with Marion on Thu. Two Seconds with Edward G Robinson Fri. Texas Buddies with Bob Steele Sat.
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Web
Joel McCrea
Faray
Thare
Conrad Nagel
Majestic
Neln
Sun
Mon
Jean Harlow
Joan Blondell
Stuart Erwin
Lee
Rebecca
Arrowsmith Opens Today at Court Theater
Samuel Goldwyn presents Arrowsmith on screen with Ronald Colman Helen Hayes Richard Bennett and A E Anson in a star packed cast led by John Ford directing Beulah Bondi and Myrna Loy also featured this historic production aims to impress on the screen as a landmark adaptation of Sinclair Lewis novel.
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Arrowsmith
Samuel Goldwyn
Sinclair Lewis
Ronald Colman
Helen Hayes
Richard Bennett
A. E. Anson
Madelon Claudet
The
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Demure Evening Gown With Bubble Satin Crepe Back
A gown features demure draped shoulders and a high neck. It is cut from a new bubble satin with crepe back. Wide fur bands embellish the shoulders while the skirt hugs the hips and flares as length increases.
Most Dangerous Game at Majestic features McCrea Wray Banks Armstrong
RKO announces a new program opening at the Majestic Tuesday with The Most Dangerous Game starring Joel McCrea Fay Wray Leslie Banks and Robert Armstrong in a two day run. The story follows a shipwrecked couple on a private island where Count Zaroff hunts humans. Leslie Banks makes his film debut as Zaroff and Robert Armstrong appears as one of the victims.
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Joel McCrea
Fay Wray
Leslie Banks
Robert Armstrong
Richard Connell
New York
London
Count Zaroff
Zaroff
Mary Boland Shaped as Hallmark Dumbbell Society Woman
Mary Boland, star of Paramount's The Night of June 13, is noted as a specialist in portraying the dumbbell society woman.
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Mary Boland
Paramount
Buckboards 65 Years Old Highlight Desert Film At Paramount
Buckboards sixty five years old are being used in Zane Grey's Heritage of the Desert at Paramount studios, signaling vintage equipment and classic Western ambiance for the production.
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Zane Grey
Fairbanks Jr and Crawford Draw Crowds in New York Visit
Douglas Fairbanks Jr and his wife Joan Crawford arrived in New York on August 21 according to First National. The couple have captivated London and Paris crowds, with Noel Coward and Ivor Novello as hosts in London. Joan’s first trip to Europe accompanies Doug’s current project Son of Russia, soon followed by Parachute in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Rackety Rax to Be Shot At Fox Movietone City With Stars
Alfred Werker directs the Fox project Rackety Rax with Victor McLaglen in a top cast that includes Ben Lyon Irving Pichel Greta Nissen Allan Dinehart Alan Jenkins Dewey Robinson and Vince Barnett. Amos Alonzo Stagg and Howard Jones signed as technical advisers and actors will lead a team of 13 college moleskin warriors, four of whom are all American caliber.
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Alfred Werker
Victor McLaglen
Ben Lyon
Irving Pichel
Greta Nissen
Allan Dinehart
Alan Jenkins
Dewey Robinson
Vince Barnett
Amos Alonzo Stagg
University of Chicago
Howard Jones
University of Southern California
New Wheeler-Woolsey Hit Opens at Majestic
The RKO-Radio comedy Hold Em Jail starring Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Edna May Oliver and Rosco Ates opens at the Majestic Theater. A slapstick prison football spoof set at Ridemore penitentiary features Wheeler and Woolsey as the bid for the Penitentiary Conference Championship with Edgar Kennedy and Betty Grable in supporting roles. Norman Taurog directs from a Tim Whelan Lew Lipton story.
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Wheeler Robt. Woolsey
Edna May Oliver
Rosco Ates
Edgar Kennedy
Norman Taurog
Dawid O. Selenick
Majestic
Majestic Theater
Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Wheeler
Ridemore Penitentiary
Woolsey
Bidemore
Betty Grable
Roscoe Ates
Zasu Pitts Known Mostly for Comedy Roles
Zasu Pitts who rose to fame in Paramount's Madison Square Garden has spent the last three years in comedy roles after early screen tragedy work.
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Zasu Pitts
Paramount
Madison Square Garden
First Year opens at Court Theatre with Gaynor and Farrell
Janet Gaynor and Leslie Howard star in The First Year at Court Theatre in a Fox film about young love and new adulthood. Supporting cast includes Minna Gomez bell Leila Bennett Dudley Digges Robert McWade George O bur ne and Henry Kolker. William K Howard directs the screen adaptation of Frank Craven's stage farce.
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Am Charlies Farrell
Fox
Janet
Farrell
Minna Gombell
Leila Bennett
Dudley Digges
Robert McWade
George Oburne
Henry Kolker
William K. Howard
Frank Craven
Lynn Starling
Make Me a Star at Nelsonville Majestic Theater
The film adaptation of Harry Leon Wilsons Make Me a Star stars Joan Blondell Stuart Erwin ZaSu Pitts and Ben Turpin. A country boy climbs from a Illinois town to Hollywood chasing Buck Benson the movie cowboy hero and finds work before the camera through a star’s kindness.
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Stuart Erwin
ZaSu Pitts and
Ben Turpin
Hollywood
Harry Leon Wilson
Nelsonville Majestic Theater
ZaSu Pitts
Illinois
Erwin
Helen Jerome Eddy
Buck Benson
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