Vanities And Strong Picture Bills Offered This Week
Earl Carrolls Vanities Broadway show heads to Shrine Temple for one night with a New York company of about one hundred. Strong picture programs include Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford stars in Flesh at Paramount and The War Correspondent at Rialto for three days starting today.
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Ata Pando
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Jon Boones
Centra
Park “ Wech
Taos Theates
Cme
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Rectace
Siasring
Gerard Hye Wooo
Greta Garbo
Joan
Lione
Barrymere Wance Beery
Joan Crassore
Sone
Jean Hers
Vance Beerus
Paramount Theater
Jack Hot Raph Graves
Lila Lee
Rialto Theater
Ravel
Karl Carroll
Earl Carroll
Grand Hotel To Open At The State For Three Days
The MGM all star production Grand Hotel will run at the State theater for three days starting Sunday after sensational premieres in New York City and other major cities. Greta Garbo John Barrymore Joan Crawford Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore lead a stellar cast with Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt in support.
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New York City
United States
Canada
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
State Theater
Astor Theater
New York
Vicki Baum
Wiehran
National Theater
Greta Garbo
Grusinskaya
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Preysing
Wallace Beery
Lionel Barrymore
Kringele
Lewis Stone
Jean Hersholt
Cass
War Correspondent at Rialto Stars Holt and Graves
Rialto opens a three day engagement featuring Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Lin Lee in War Correspondent a tale of a newspaper correspondent who serves in an unofficial military role to relay front line news. Holt and Graves provide wisecracks feisty clashes and romance amid action and peril with a colorful supporting cast.
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Rialto
Jack Holt
Ralph Graves
Lin Lee
Starn
Holt
Graves
Lila
Broadway Brevity and Conspiracy Amid Civil War Intrigue
A brief program notes a Broadway Brevity featuring a comedy and news segment amid an era of civil war and external aggression. The scene hints at intrigue and conspiracies shaping the theater's backdrop.
Those We Love at the Olympic with Mary Astor
Mary Astor returns to films in Those We Love at the Olympic theater for Monday through Wednesday. She plays a devoted mother in a Broadway adaptation about a family facing infidelity and the resolve to stay together.
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Mary Astor
Miss Astor
Marylyn Thorpe
May Williston
St. Lauren
George Abbott
Olympic Theater
Ricky
Flesh at the Paramount Stars Beery in a Powerful Role
Beery stars as Polikai the wrestler in Flesh at the Paramount a tale of crime love and boxing from Germany to New York Karen Morley plays the wife and Ricardo Cortez is Nicky with a murder twist and a title bout finale along with other short subjects and a Calvin Coolidge newsreel.
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Paramount
Wallace Beery
Linament
Husky Beery
New York
Polikai
America
Nicky
Karen Morley
Ricardo Cortez
Paramount News
Calvin Coolidge
Minstrels Head Today's Iowa Show Mixed Battery of Acts
The Iowa Sunday program opens with Mack and Long Minstrels headlining a lineup including Six Royal Buccaneers teeterboard act and the Hokomaniacs Edison and Louise. The screen feature Thirteen Women stars Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez, with Myrna Loy and others in supporting roles.
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Mack and Long
Iowa Theater
Lew Dockstader
George Primrose
Louise
Bill Edison
Louise Manning
Axel Christensen
Bert Swor
Harry van Fossen
Chick Williams
Cubby” Bear
Irene Dunne
Ricardo Cortez
Washington Bred First Mule in United States
George Washington bred the first mule in the country and received the first jack imported as a gift from the King of Spain.
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George Washington
America
Washington
Spain
IT Girl Dorothy Lamour Joins Kay’s Orchestra at Danceland
Dorothy Lamour radio it girl teams with Herbie Kay and his orchestra for a Thursday night engagement from 9 p m to 1 a m at Danceland. Kay’s outfit, famed on national networks and WGN Chicago broadcasts, rose to fame at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago and followed by a Midwest tour with MCA.
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Herbie Kay
Danceland
WGN
Chicago
Aragon Ballroom
Wayne King
Trianon
Music Corporation of America
Hinkler Seeks England to Australia Flight Record
Australian airman Bert Hinkler left Feltham airdrome in Middlesex at 3 a.m. Saturday to attempt a record flight from England to Australia.
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Hinkler
Australia
London
INL
Bert Hinkler
Feltham
Middlesex County
England
Albert Lea farmer killed in late night collision
Iver Tufte, a farmer from Albert Lea, died Friday night when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Frank Bissinger of Albert Lea. Bissinger suffered minor injuries and Edward Tufte, son of the deceased, was cut and bruised.
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Albert Lea, Minn
Iver Tufte
Frank Bissinger
Albert Lea
Bissinger
Edward Tufte
Vanities at Shrine Temple promises variety and elegance
Earl Carroll presents the original New York production of the ninth Vanities at the Shrine temple Tuesday evening. The fifty five scene revue blends comedy and melody with beauty and elaborate ballet where Mitchell and Durant star in humorous piano routines.
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Broadway
New York
Earl Carroll
Shrine Temple
Trahan
Mitchell
Durant
al Trahan
England
London
Mitchell and Durant
Pacific Coast
Joan Blondell in Central Park at the Iowa Monday
Joan Blondell and Wallace Ford star in Central Park at the Iowa next Monday with a New York set tale of a hungry couple drawn into crime, featuring crime chases and escapes. Cast includes Guy Kibbee Henry B Walthall Patricia Ellis and others in a drama of struggle and romance. Short subjects include Torchy's Busy Day and Little Thrills.
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Joan Blondell
Central Park
Iowa
The
Iowa Monday
Wallace Ford
Iowa Theater
New York City
Great Playground
Guy Kibbee
Henry B. Walthall
Patricia Ellis
Charles
Flapper Term Origin In Duckling Language
The word flapper was first used for young ducks not yet able to fly. This old usage shows how the term migrated from animals to people over time.
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