Zoo Opera Company Announces New Stars and Opening Week Plans
The Zoo Opera Company reveals new faces for the season and recalls favorites. Helen Freund joins from Chicago Civic Opera with Edward Molitore and Giuseppe Reschiglian among tenors. Joseph Wetzel and Joseph Royer return. Alexander Puglia becomes stage director as preparations begin for Samson and Delilah and Martha with June 15 to 20 performances.
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Helen Freund
Chicago Civic Opera Company
Edward Molitore
Boston Opera Company
Giuseppe Reschiglian
Metropolitan Opera Company
Joseph Wetzel
Joseph Royer
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Zoo Opera
Forrest Lamont
Pinkerton
Wetzel
Josephine Lucchese
Myrna Sharlow
Marta Wittkowska
Constance Eberhart
Joan Sample
Herbert Gould
Barytone
Italo Picchi
Fred Patton
S. Martino- Rossi Barytone
Robert Ringling
Natale Cervi
Magician Blackstone to Expose Spiritualist Tricks This Week
Arry Blackstone leads the Albee Theater bill with feats of legerdemain and staged exposures of seance methods. He vows to reproduce pseudo manifestations on stage while attacking spiritualists as frauds and uses a large entourage and long equipment list for demonstrations.
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Vaughn’s Little Heroine Brought to Life in Paramount Talkie
Claudette Colbert stars as the beloved heroine from Katherine Brush’s Young Man of Manhattan in the Paramount talking picture now at the Keith Theater. Colbert’s casting followed extensive consideration of popular actresses, praised for matching Brush’s character and emotional range. Evelyn Chandler, famed for her Zoo Ice Show skating, emerges from amateur status to professional acclaim in a notable part of the production.
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Saturday Evening Post
Katherine Brush
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Keith Theater
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Rker
Walter Huston
Norman Foster
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Maurice Chevalier
the Big Pond
Evelyn Chandler
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New York
Margie Bartell Tops Empress Theater Burlesque Cast
Margie Bartell of the summer burlesque company at the Empress Theater is described as the best all around dancer in burlesque. She excels in ballet and other forms, teaches private lessons, dances in the show, rehearses for new attractions, and stages ensemble numbers.
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Empress Theater
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Danc
Little Margie
Janet Gaynor Prefers Simple Life Over Lively Hollywood Scene
Janet Gaynor, a reigning Hollywood princess, stars with Charles Farrell in High Society Blues at the Palace Theater. She avoids formal events, living in a Beverly Hills cottage or Santa Monica beach home over Malibu luxury, valuing time for reading, swimming, tennis, and privacy.
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Janet Gaynor
Palace Theater
Charles Farrell
Beverly Hills
Santa Monica
Malibu
Miss Gaynor
William Boyd Proves Versatile in Screen Uniform Roles
A newspaper note praises William Boyd for embodying a range of uniforms on screen. It highlights his latest turn as a Lieutenant in Officer O'Brien at the Albee Theater, marking seven army and police roles across his career with films like Two Arabian Knights and The Leathern eck.
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United States Military Academy
Coney Island Garden Spots Draw Wide Attention
A photograph titled Bove depicts one of Coney Island's garden spots by Lake Como near the Moonlite Gardens. The serene benches and pergola showcase architectural beauty. George F. Schott funds beautification, treating natural grounds as vital as amusements, with the image winning first prize at a photographers' convention.
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Lake Como
George F. Schott
Henry Busse Leads Castle Farm Band to World Fame
Immigrant trumpet star Henry Busse rose from a poor start with no English to lead his own renowned orchestra. He gained fame with Paul Whiteman, then formed his own group, worked in talkies, and became Detroit’s musical sensation before returning to Cincinnati as his home and Castle Farm’s pride.
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The Texan heads Gary Cooper in a Paramount feature
Not native to Texas Gary Cooper stars in The Texan at the Capitol Theater. The film is part of a unique set of person titled pictures by Paramount alongside The Virginian The Ken tuckian The Alaskan and The Canadian.
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Paramount Talking Pictures
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Zoo Notes Reflect Summer Opera Plans and Exhibits
Zoo notes detail Charles Bickler returning as ticket office head with many opera ticket applications. Zoo Opera tickets move to Hotel Gibson lobby opening June 9 for Sampson and Delilah and Martha. Indians from Chippewa encampment ride automobiles and perform tribal dances while local acts like Theodore Hahn Jr violin octet and Beckley and Russell ice show stars draw crowds. Charles G. Miller.
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Zoo Opera Downtown
Gibson
Sampson
Delilah
Martha
Armida the Little Mexican Star Opens at Erlinger Grand
Armida, a 4 foot 11 inch Mexican performer born in La Colorado Sonora, rises to fame from Douglas Arizona to Los Angeles and New York vaudeville before starring in Border Romance at the Erlinger Grand Opera House. She trained little formally but gained acclaim under Gus Edwards and John Barrymore, noted for her singing and dancing talent.
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Erlanger Grand Opera House
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Sonora
Mexico
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Douglas
Arizona
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Gus Edwards
New York
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Lincoln School
Phoenix
St. Joseph's Convent
Zoo Clubhouse plans charity program at Lions Club meeting
Zoo business manager arranges exhibitions on the Zoo baseball grounds with no admission. Harry Willsey pianist and Elizabeth O'Donnell soprano of the Zoo Clubhouse entertainment forces will perform for the Lions Club at its Wednesday noon meeting at the Hotel Metropole, courtesy of Charles G. Miller, Zoo business manager.
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Charles G. Miller
Rainbow Park open air theater and arena slated for June opening
Rainbow Park plans a June season with an open air theater and arena. General Manager C DeLaney Martin aims to present a premier vaudeville program via a New York agency. Picnic facilities improve with more tables and chairs and a cafeteria service added amid expanded outings and shaded groves.
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C. DeLaney Martin
New York
Debutante Jere Makes Strand Theater Debut
Debutante Jere appears in the Strand Theater feature Children of Pleasure with Lawrence Gray and Wynne Gibson. The piece portrays a Tin Pan Alley composer courting a high society darling, echoing cultural romances of Irving Berlin. Jere previously starred in The Brassing New Year’s Eve and Everything’s Jake and traveled by plane through a storm to join Metro studio work in California.
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Helen Johnson
Tin Pan Alley
Irving Berlin
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Rainbow Park pool water set to be unusually pure this summer
Park officials predict the new Rainbow Park concrete pool will offer water purer than most inland lakes at summer resorts. The facility’s big filters have a capacity of 1,200 gallons per minute.
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