Third Annual Beauty Pageant At The Princess
Plans are set for the Crescent Amusement Company third annual beauty pageant at The Princess theater over two nights to crown Miss Decatur of 1935. Tickets include two feature pictures, twenty five contestants, six vaudeville acts, and live music by the Cooper Wellsians. Local girls listed compete for the finals in Nashville on June 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crescent Amusement Company
Princess Theatre
Decatur
Banniza
Fredie March
Annd Sten
Cooper Wellsians
North Alabama
Chester Morris
Carol Lombard
Nashville
Dorothy Morrow
Edna Faycones
Jane Todd
la Charles Eaver
Margaret Humphrey
Ances Schnable
Helen Ross
Lallie Mae Sewell
Frances Leppard
Margaret Ann Rogers
Ruth Johnston
Estelle Russell
Frances Cowden
Evelyn Harrison
Dorothy Wiggins
Eleanor Vines
Lois Williams
Margaret McEntire
Mary Helen Lyle
Ruth Ross
Polly Rowe
Madalyn Summer
Edna Elizabeth Adcock
Dorothy Grace Finley
Mary Ethel Williams
Bevelle King
Donnie Blackwell
Frank Ragan King
Frances Morgan
Charlotte Taylor
Peggy Brown
Dorothy Adcock
Opal Holland
Mary Litteral
Alice Kendall
Annie Kate Harrison
Mary Ruth Durham
Jeanne Woods
Ruth Francis
Elizabeth McMillan
Annie Sue Greenhill
Martha Ruth Cardin
Mary White
Mary Clay Price
Clara Belle Turner
Marjorie Davis
Louise Walker
Laverne Thrasher
Martha Vines
Wilma Fay Yates
Iles Murphy
Marguer‘Jernigan
Shirley Bragg
Mary Joel Mason
Joan Summer
Virginia McGraw
Mary Ford Tillery
Murial Thomas
Pop Aten Johnson
Huntsville talent show offers prize for Decatur crown
Patsy Ann Patterson Leatrice Tumminello both of Huntsville perform toe dance and Betty McGehee sings and dances under Mrs G P Banniza direction. Solon Robertson Jewelry Company offers a silver loving cup to the Decatur beauty crown winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsy Ann Patterson
Leatrice Tumminello
Huntsville
Betty McGehee
G. P. Banniza
Solon Robertson
Capitol Theatre Unveils New Marque After Renovation
Manager Edwards at the Capitol theatre is congratulated on finishing a new marquee. The project refreshed the front by renewing the background and neon lights, giving the local venue a like new appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards
Capitol Theatre
Birds Bamboozle Bugs in College Park Nursery
State Forester F W Besley received an urgent call reporting a swarm of caterpillars attacking young ash trees at the College Park nursery. He prepared a pesticide requisition, but another call followed noting a flock of black birds had removed all the caterpillars and left the trees untouched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
State
F. W. Besley
College Park Nursery
Besley
Hold 'Em Yale at the Strand draws big laughs
Damon Runyon style farce screens with football as a backdrop. Clarice van Cleve charms a gang of muggs including Sam the Gonoph and Georgie the Gigolo as they woo, scheme, and dodge disinheritance until a wild denouement. Patricia Ellis leads a strong cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Ellis
Larry Crabbe
Paramount
Damon Runyon
Yale
Strand
Sunshine Joe
Liverlips
Sam
Gonoph
Bennie
Gouge
Georgie
Yales
Harvards
Strand Theatre
Hartselle
Louie Liverlips
Clarice
Georgia
Cesar Romero
William Frawley
Warren Hymer
Andy Devine
George E. Stone
George Barbier
Jack Conway
Missouri
Lombard Morris Ode to The Gay Bride Opens at Princess
Carole Lombard and Chester Morris star in The Gay Bride a fast moving comedy at the Princess theatre. The film based on Charles Francis Coe story Repeat follows a young adventuress who digs for gold among New York racketeers and outwits police as mobsters clash with her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carole Lombard
Chester Morris
Princess Theatre
Charles Francis Coe
New York
Miss Lombard
Mary
Zasu Pitts
Mirabelle
Leo Carrillo
Mickey
Nat Pendleton
Sam Hardy
Dingle
Case of the Curious Bride at Capitol
The First National mystery thriller based on Erle Stanley Gardner features Perry Mason. Warren William stars with Margaret Lindsay and Claire Dodd in a San Francisco set tale of murder, blackmail, and a clever courtroom finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clue Club
Capitol
Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason
Mason
Warren William
Margaret Lindsay
Claire Dodd
Donald Woods
Allen Jenkins
Phillip Reed
Barton MacLane
Winifred Shaw
Warren Hymer
Olin Howland
Charles Richman
Thomas Jackson
Henry Kolker
Michael Curtiz
First National
Embarcadero
San Francisco
Tom Reed
Screenplay Adaptation Credits Sparkle for Coe Original
Walter Walker acts as attorney in a lavish adaptation credited to Bella and Samuel Spewack. The sparkling screenplay preserves every punch of the famous magazine story and follows the Coe original closely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Walker
Coe
Bella
Samuel Spewack
We Live Again Film At Princess Theatre In Pomous Tolstoy Tale
A one day engagement at the Princess theatre features Anna Sten and Frederic March in We Live Again a retitled Resurrection from Leo Tolstoy presented by Samuel Goldwyn. Rouben Mamoulian directs a cast including Jane Baxter C Aubrey Smith and Mary Forbes detailing a peasants romance amid exile prisons and trials with Tolstoyan themes of freedom and humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredric March
Anna Sten
Princess Theatre
Frederic March
Samuel Goldwyns
Leo Tolstoy
Preston Sturgweas
Maxwell Anderson
Leonard Praskins
Moscow
Rouben Mamoulian
Tolstoy
America
DANCE PUPILS PRESENT NEW ACT AT PRINCESS
Mrs. Banaiza and her 10 dance pupils prepare for two nights of entertainment at the Princess in support of the Miss Decatur beauty pageant. Manager Banniza promises one of the best stage programs locally with two daily changes featuring Anna Sten in We Live Again and Carole Lombard in The Gay Bride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. P. Banaiza
Banniza
Nashville
Decatur
Anna Sten
March
Carole Lombard
Chester Morris
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The
Princess
Miss Decatur
Runyon Comedy
Theatre
Adolph Zukor
Norman Foster
Shelia Manners
Donald Cook
the Capitol
Koolness Desire
Metro-Cartoon
Sheila Mannors
King of Crime
Bride
Flanders
Frankie Thomas
Lightning
Hollywood
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Neal Wells and
Cooper-Wellsians
Reltten
Ead
United Artists
George White
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