Codes and Ciphers Lace Romance in Black Chamber Tale
Powell plays a wartime code expert drawn into the Black Chamber in Washington while Rosalind Russell rises to leading roles in a romance. The cast includes Hinle Barnes Lionel Atwill Cesar Romero and many other familiar names in a Metropolitan newspaper flavored production of the Houstes Sunday and Monday.
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Randerroun
Startling
Gramatic
William Powell
Rosaline Russell
Powell
Pazzle
France
Washington
United States
Rosalind Russell
Cole
Zoel Carter
Hollywood
Hinle Barnes
Burns Allen in Here Comes Cookie at Alcazar Sunday and Monday
Stage and screen duo Gracie Allen and George Burns headline a vaudeville style film at the Alcazar. The show features lively supporting acts including George Babter Andrew Tombes Holly Furnesa Rafael Storm and a Six Olympics Buccaneers and other comic acts. The revue promises many belly laughs and a spoof of Romeo and Juliet with Gracie Allen and a closing uproarious sequence. Also noted Vienna court rules limit bankruptcy attorney appointments and lists Renee Borden Arthur Loft Kit Guard and others in a supporting cast.
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Alcazar Tetro
Gracie Allen
George Byrne
Burns and Allen
Cookie” Menautes
George Babter
Andrew Tombes
Holly Furnesa
Rafael Storm
Burns
Alten
Grace
Iquits Palace
Gracia AL Jon
Clonda Grage
Pampas
Jack Powell
Buccansers
Jack Cavanagh
Candreva Brothers
Mero
Yaonell
Vienna
Viena Court of Commerce
Renee Borden
Arthur Loft
Kit Guard
Lotte McKee
Dan Calvert
Barry Seary
Perry Murdock
Joon Elrod
Bob Steele in Kid Courageous at Alcazar Saturday
Western thriller tale stars Bob Steele as feared hero in Kid Courageous showing at the Alcazar Saturday. The adventure mixes machine gun action with humor and heart, as Steele battles foes, duels a foreigner, and helps a mining campMadame figure reunite family and triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trent
Bob Steele
Farmoun Weateraater
Kid Coura-geows
Alcazar
Bob
Raptora
Acores
Nat
Attractions Next Week at Houston Movie House
The Houston program announces a busy week with crowd-pleasing features. Mikable Witham Powell stars in Rendezvour as the week opens Sunday and Monday. Other attractions include Solomen of Bedlow, Mary Burns, Puttive, Last Days of Pompeii, Fast of Jove, Escape From Devil's Island, Modern Courage, No More Ladies, and Hop-Along Cassidy with Ken Maynard and Genev a Mitchell.
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Houston
Exceptionst Pictures
Échenzira
Witham Powel
Lowe
Aeen
Solomen
Alabama
Sylvia Storrey
Mary Burns
Housday
Dorothy Wilson
Pompeii
Houston Wednester
Frank Albertson
Gid Elizebeth Youns
Houten Urday
Worman Foster
Davil
Tawa
Ken Maynard
Genava Mitchell
Jody
Joan Crave Fora
Ken Maynard Stars In Western Courage At Alcazar
Ken Maynard battles desperados in Western Courage at the Alcazar, riding his famous horse and playing foreman on a dude ranch set. A temperamental heiress, her mother and a fortune seeker drive the plot as bullets fly and a daring rescue unfolds amid a burning cabin.
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Ken Maynard
Beech
Ken
Thera
Flr
Mhem'ia
Keen
Joe
Geneva Miteteal
New Film Musical to Be Filmed in New York this Year
Sugar star names and Broadway actors join a new film musical Sweet Surrender to be filmed in New York in three years. Frank Parker and Tamara lead a cast with Jack Beony and Helen Lyndon, bringing radio fame and Broadway experience to the screen. Parker debuts with five numbers written for him, while Tamara rises from Roberta stardom to screen prominence.
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New York
Houston
Frank Parker
Tama
Jack Beony
Tamara
Jarome Kern
Roberta
Moscow
Helen Lyndh
Ventregoora
Momey
Gortie
Rojo
Miss Lyndon
Ginger Rogers
Konor
Bette Davis and George Brent Return in Special Agent
Bette Davis is paired with George Brent again as romantic leads in the new production Special Agent opening at the Alcazar theater Tuesday and Wednesday. The film centers on U S Treasury Department operations to capture criminals, with undercover agents facing danger to obtain evidence. Ricardo Cortez plays the ruthless Kier while Jack LaRue, Henry O'Neill, Robert Strange and others co star.
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Bette Davis
George Brent
Alcazar Theatre
U. S. Treasury Department
Accret Adrvice
Ora” Brant
New York
Miss Davis
Bend
Pollahed
Kier
Ricardo Cortez
Jack Laktne
Henry O'Neill
Robert Strange
Joseph Crohan
J. Carroll Noish
Robert Barrat
California Plans 129005 Mcres in Walnuts Investment
California advances 129005 mcres in walnuts with an estimated total investment of $134 065 065. The plan reflects large scale agricultural funding, involving state agencies and walnut growers associations, aiming to increase production and market reach in the coming season.
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California
The Last Days of Pompeii on the Screen
A lavish motion picture spectacle titled The Last Days of Pompeii debuts at four ton theater. It dramatizes Pompeii before during and after the eruption with authentic historical detail. Lead roles are Preston Foster Elsa Hale Basil Rathbone John Wood Louis Calhern and child David Holt with additional parts by Dorothy Wilson and others.
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Pompeii
Peras
Naples
Stollywood
Potipeli
Preston Foster
Alsa Hale
Baail Rathbone
John Wood
Louis Calhern
Boy
David Holt
Dorothy Wilson
Wyrley Birch
Giorkin Skoa
Wiliam V. Mang
Mary Burns Fugitive arrives in Houston with Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney stars in Mary Burns Fugitive a fast moving thriller in Houston at Thursday and Friday. Melvyn Douglas Alan Baxter and Pert Kelton deliver strong supporting turns in a drama of romance and danger as Sidney’s character escapes a mobster ex lover only to be imprisoned after a tense restaurant confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Burns
Sylvia Sidney
Houston
Miss Sidney
Ametier
Mary Burna
Sheinv
Avectheart
Tuonitz
Melvyn Douglas
Fiim
Alan Haxter
Pert Kelton
Brien Donnevy
Wallace Ford
Sidney
Alan Baxter
Baxter
Misa Sidney
Jove
Escape From Devil's Island at Alabama Theatre
A harrowing film program led by Victor Jory Florence Rice and Norman Foster opens Tuesday at the Alabama Theatre. The drama unfolds on a deviled penal outpost with treacherous rivers alligators and tropical jungles. Jory and Foster pursue freedom as romance and danger mix in a story of betrayal and survival.
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Devil's Island
Victor Jory
Florence Rice
Norman Foster
Wil
Alabama ‘Theatre
Tivers
Peture
Jory
Convieta
Boy 12-Year-Old Refuses Five Foot Leap In Cage
In Brownsville Texas spy manual King, famed 12-year-old lion tamer, enters a cage to confront adult lions but balks at five foot cliff heights. While filming a moving picture the boy, with his father, resisted a requested leap into a cage with the lions.
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Liss Butne
Bownsville
Tex
Spy Manual King
Hon Tamer
Brownsville
Dramatic Capture Scene Delays Foretold Wedding
In a tense plot Melvyn Douglas plays a blinded young scientist who shelters Miss Sidney from Baxter and his gang. Miss Kelton vouches for Baxter as her G men ally while Baxter plots a kidnapping. Sidney escapes to Douglas and a wedding is interrupted by Baxter, leading to a climactic finale.
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Melvyn Douglas
Miss Kelton
Baxter
Miss Sidney
Douglas
Tokyo Seaport Shifts To A Massive Postquake Growth
Tokyo, now the empire’s second largest city, reports a population near 700,000 after the 1923 quake and fire revival. Osaka and Nagoya solidify >1,000,000 thresholds, while the port of Yokohama is reborn as a modern flourishing trade hub.
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Fokohama
Japan
Tokohame
Mary
Takohama
Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Eyvie
Kobs
Gegen E Gwoat
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Cookie
Steele
Edmund Lowe SoLomon
Dorothy Page
Pinky Tomtin
Louise Henry
Edward Pawley
Universal Picture
Metro News
Alcazar Picture
Dothan
Eagle News
Bride
George
Binbien
Furness
Tim
Pompei
Action, Thrills Stud
Sylvia Sidney Story
Gust
Phaly Eat Con
Herb Maile
David Kistzking
Amg
3Ay Pege
Media
Stagharsti
Manuel
Aya
Looney Tunes
Jay
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