Traps Designed for The Black Bird Screen Escape
Under guidance of a professional mystifier the gantry traps used by Lon Chaney in The Black Bird are installed for dramatic escape scenes. The film at the Gaiety Theatre on April 19 stars Chaney in a dual role with Tod Browning directing and a supporting cast including Owen Moore and Renee Adoree.
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Houdini
Herrmann
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Gaiety Theatre
Chaney
Limehouse
Scotland Yard
Harry Sharrock
Sharrock
Tod Browning
Waldemar Young
Owen Moore
Renee Adoree
Doris Lloyd
Horton Aims For Perfectly Useless Film
Edward Everett Horton plans to direct a satirical motion picture with a restrained ordinary American setting. He outlines that detectives will remove hats in private homes and avoids lavish Hollywood tropes while keeping the hero and heroine in modest circumstances and minimizing melodramatic crime misdirections.
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Edward Everett Horton
Gaiety Theatre
Universal
Horton
Hollywood
Grand Central Station
Sojin Brings Oriental Flair to The Bat Screen
Sojin the Japanese actor stars in The Bat as a Mongolian prince and headlines performances at the Tlo-Ilo on April 20 21 and at the Gaiety on April 22 28. His screen career spans more than twenty American pictures including East of Suez Proud Flesh The White Desert The Wanderer and The Sea Beast.
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Hollywood
Sojin
Japan
America
Shakespeare
Goethe
Ibsen
Tolstoy
Shaw
Tlo-Ilo
Suez
White Desert
Film Over the Hill Attracts Universal Appeal
The William Fox rendition of Will Carleton's poem Over the Hill shows at Iloilo Theatre on Good Friday and Saturday April 15 and 16. Early reviews say it reaches a broad audience across social strata, echoing aims of universal screen storytelling.
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William Fox
Will Carleton
Iloilo Theatre
Compromise makes a case as Warner Bros classic film
Irene Rich stars in Compromise a Warner Bros. classic showing at Ilo Ilo Monday and Tuesday April 18 and 19. Joan Trevore rebels against lax standards, then learns forgiveness and harmony. Clive Brook Louise Fazenda Pauline Garon and Raymond McKee star in a tie rich cast with Jay Gelzer story and Alan Crosland direction.
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Irene Rich
Warner Bros
Joan Trevore
Clive Brook
Louise Fazenda
Pauline Garon
Raymond McKee
Jay Gelzer
E. T. Lowe, Jr
Alan Crosland
Garbo Explains Wedding Ring Customs in Flesh and the Devil
Greta Garbo discusses wedding ring practices, noting Europeans wear rings on the right hand. She stars with Lars Hanson in Flesh and the Devil, a Metro release arriving April 21 at the Gaiety and Ilo Ilo theaters, with John Gilbert in the lead and Clarence Brown directing.
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Greta Garbo
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Lars Hanson
Hermann Sudermann
John Gilbert
Miss Garbo
Gilbert
Hanson
Barrymore
George Fawcett
Barbara Kent
Eugenie Besserer
William Orlamond
Clarence Brown
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London
Underworld
Ine
Mysteriou
Long Island
THE
E. E. Horton
Llello Theatre
Ems
Warner Bros Classics
Ator
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