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On and Off the ScreenNews, Re\icw» and PreviewsPlaying at City TheatersI“Its in the Trd Heal vofCaoitof: Now playing—Air/* with Jack Bennv, and Una Merkel; also, “MarchTime,** and “Alibi Racket. *Rialto. Thursday and Friday—“I Live for Love/* with Dolores Del Rio and Herbert Marshall; also, “A Feather in Her Hat/’ with Pauline Lord and Louis Hayword.Kearsf: On the stage, change of billThursday—**Har!em Express/’ all-colored revue. On the screen. Thursday through Saturday, “Thunder in the Night/* with Edmund Lowe.Virginian: Now playing—“Shipmates Forever/* with Dtck Powell. Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone. Rolt;s Alexander John Arlcdge and Marv Treen-Greenbrier: Friday — “G-Men.” with James Cagney and Robert Armstrong.Playhouse — “Three-Cornered Moon/’ special performance, 8:30 p. m.\bout George HoustonHOLLYWOOD. Oct. 25 (UP); Edward Small ranks one of the besttalent pickers in Hollywood. Fifteen*fears ago he decided that Corinne# Griffith had something.After every studio had turned her down. Small produced 12 picture' with Corinne as star, and she became the most sought-after actress \n Hollywood.' A year ago he made “The Count of Monte Cristo” with an unknown star to American audiences. Robert Donat. He coined a fortune while every other Hollywood studio tried in vain to place Donat under con-«lt;Small thinks he has a third ' comer” in George Houston, whom he will introduce with Josephine Hutchinson in “The Melody Lingers On.” So instead of talking with Eddie Small, the story shall be amount George Houston. . . .\ided Blind FatherGeorge inherited a fine baritone voice from his father. Rev. Thomas Houston, noted blind evangelist, with whom George toured four years as his elder’s “eyes.” They held religious meetings on street corners, George singing to attract crowds.He had the height and physique of his flemish forebears who came to America in 1650. so becoming a football, track and basketball star atBlair academy in New Jersey was a cinch. He studied voice under Frank Damrosch at the institute of musical arts in New York but the war sent him to France as a member of an ambulance unit. He holds the croix de guerre and two citations.Back in America, he decided tofight on the football field for dear old Rutgers, but he quit to become a sailor. He remained in the West Indies to ecomc a dock walloper, but a fight ended that career. Returning to New York he became a , bank runner, singing in a choir on Sundays, where he earned more money than at banking.Sail in EnglishAn astr.ologer advised him to follow a music career, so he joined Vladimir Rosing and Rouben Ma-moulian, now a film director, in founding the American Opera company, financed by the late George Eastman. For six years he remained, making his debut in the title role of “Boris Godounow,” the onlyAmerican who ever has sung Chali-pain’s difficult vehicle in English.He sang with opera companies allover the country, later going to the stage with Francine Larrimore. His voice is called a dramatic baritone with a range from low E fiat to high G. 31 is wife is Leone Sousa, late of the follies.He holds a private pilot’s license and would have flown his own plane to Hollywood except that Eddie Small didn’t like the idea of risking the neck of s h an expensive investment.—Net cost of the World war to the United States was $27,600,000 a day; including loans to the Allies, the sum rises to $38,500,000 daily.GOLD LABEL’MmBLENDED WHISKEY*Wrap your tongue 'round it*smooth flavor.Code Nos.—Quart 125—Pint 126
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Fri, Oct 25, 1935
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