Lily Pons Stars in Film Debut at Princess Theatre
Lily Pons makes her screen debut opposite Henry Perkins and Eric Blore in a lavish production built to showcase her singing and acting. Osgood Perkins and Eric Blore co star as the drama follows a French girl torn between fame and a simple life, with operatic arias and popular songs highlighting the story.
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Princess Theatre
Henry
Hollywood
Miss Pons
Osgood Perkins
New York
Eric Biore
Fred Astaire
Ginger
Top Hat
Elsie Finn
David G. Wittels
Pei
Lily Pons
Kern
Carrousel
Dorothy Fields
RKO Radio
Jerome Kern
China Seas Filmed Big Style at Princess Theatres
Filming of the Wallace Beery Clark Gable and Jean Harlow drama China Seas is underway at the Princess Theatre. Based on a Crosbie Garstin novel with Jules Furthman adapting the screenplay, the story follows pirates and a typhoon on the world’s last ocean frontier. This marks the first time the three stars team up since The Secret Six.
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China Seas
Crosbie Garst
Jules Furthman
Wallace Beery
Clark Gable
Jean Harlow
List Complete For Cotton Program
Athens Alabama January 4 1936 county farm agent Phillips completes the county committees for the cotton reduction program each district to have at least three men with alternates these men will be instructed and begin an immediate canvass of the county
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Athens
Ala
Ae Phillips
Counterfeit Bills Appear in Athens
In Athens Alabama counterfeit ten dollar bills surfaced for the first time in years. One note passed at the Athens Case was not spotted until presented at a bank and the passer remained unknown, while another ten dollar bill was accepted at the local bank.
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Athens
Ala
Vanishing Prisoner Baffles Alabama Warden
Warden Leon Del trosty Delmar Wilson vanished after agreeing to be "it" in a tag game with dogs at a county prison camp. Rain washed out his tracks and he has not been seen since.
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Montgomery
Ala
Leon Detrosty Delmar Wilson
Wilson
Princess Has Hit Picture Top Hat at Princess Theatre
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in Top Hat a lavish musical comedy at the Princess Theatre Monday and Tuesday. The film uses song and dance to tell a screen love story featuring Irving Berlin songs and a six piece score. Åssistant
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Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Princess Theatre
Irving Berlin
Miss Broderick
Hermes Pan
Astaire
Fred
Ben Lyon Popular Man in Hollywood Stars at Home
Ben Lyon a popular film figure and husband of Dan Daniels, stars in Columbia’s family comedy drama Together We Live arriving at Capitol Theatre for a brief engagement. He began on stage in Seventeen and later transitioned to talkies, balancing career and marriage to Miss Daniels with a daughter Barbara Bebe.
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Bebe Daniels
Ben Lyyon
Lyon
Columbia
Capitol Theatre
Miss Daniels
Hollywood
Barbara Bebe
Benie Weig
Atlanta
Ben
Baltimore
Baltimore City College
Broadway
Shirley Temple Stars in The Littlest Rebel at Strand
Shirley Temple shines in The Littlest Rebel at the Strand in Hartselle under Fox. Set during the Civil War, Temple's charm guides a plot where her parents played by John Boles and Karen Morley are separated and later reunite as tension with Yankee officers unfolds. Included are songs like Polly Wolly Doodle and notable supporting performers.
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Shirley Temple
John Beles
Jack Holt
Fox
Littles
Strand
Hartselle
Virginia
John Boles
Karen Morley
Shirley
Polly Wolly Doodle
Guinn Williams
Willie Best
Frank McGlynn
Abraham Lincoln
David Butler
B. G. DeSylva
Three Big Stars In New Picture China Seas
Clark Gable Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery headline the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama China Seas opening Wednesday at the Princess Theatre. Tay Garnett directs a red-blooded tale of fierce loves bitter hates and deadly intrigues aboard a deck in the era of maritime peril.
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Clark Gable
Jean Harlow
Wallace Beery
China Seas
Irving G. Thalberg
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Tay Garnett
Princess Theatre
Utah judge allows fine payment plan for intoxication case
Provo Utah January 4 Judge Don R Ellerton permits Dean Cox to pay a ten dollar fine for intoxication in installments of one dollar per day or face jail. The arrangement keeps Cox out of jail while he completes the payment.
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Provo
Utah
Dean Cox
Don R. Ellerton
Cox
Actor Lyon noted for film roles and flying license
The article recalls Lyon famous for I Cover the Waterfront with Claudette Colbert and scores of others such as Hell's Angels and Crimson Romance. It notes he holds a transport flying license and serves in the United States Army Reserve Corps. He personally owns a Stinson cabin plane, and was described as immediately involved in film offers.
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Claudette Colbert
Lyon
United States Army Reserve Corps
Stinson
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Bill Robinson
Princess
Ben Lyon
Miss Rogers
Satan
Capitol
Imani
Scarface
Socrates
Edgar Kennedy
Love
Sheila Manners
Esther Ralston
Cheries Sabin
Were Engels
Hobart Bosworth
Bekewell
Claude Gillingwater
Stooges
Wil
Paramount
William Boyd
Jimmy Ellison
Jean Rouverol
George Hayes
Yu Yi
Lil
Popeye—The Sailor Man
Noah Beery, Jr
Wonder Girl
Coloratura
Eric Blore Osgood Perkins
Roberta
Levan
Per
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Groaenic
Rhodes
Gable
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Jean
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Ges
Rosalind Russell
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