Holmes Stars in Grumpy at Alcazar After Devil’s Holiday Fame
Phillips Holmes son of veteran actor Taylor Holmes gains critical praise in The Devil’s Holiday as the wheat‑boy romance with Nancy Carroll. He is cast as the leading Englishman in Cyril Maude’s Grumpy at the Alcazar Theatre starting Thursday after five years in England and recent Paramount contracts.
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Taylor Holmes
Holmes
Miss Carroll
Cyril Maude
Alcazar Theatre
England
Trinity College
Sher- Jock Holmes
Manslaughter Opens at Alcazar in Four Day Run
A brisk dramatic treatment stars Claudette Colbert as a wealthy carefree heroine who speeds through life in fast living and fast cars until a self created tragedy forces the hand of the district attorney she adores to pursue her. The play promises tense, gripping courtroom drama.
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Alcazar Theatre
Claudette Colbert
Frederic March
Up The River Comedy Heads Houston Screen Offerings
The Houston Theatre shows the comedy Up The River beginning Sunday promising over an hour of uproarious entertainment. Featuring Spencer Tracy Warren Hymer Claire Luce Humphrey Bogart and others under John Ford’s direction the film presents a quirky romance of two self appointed Cupids amid a large comic cast and fan favorites headlined by Sharon Lynn and The Keating Sisters.
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Houston
Spencer Tracy
Warren Hymer
Claire Luce
Humphrey Bogart
William Collier
Ami Joan
Cherie
Lawes
Sharon Lynn
Keating Sisters
Noel Francis
Morgan Wallace
Althea Henry Edythe Chapman
George MacFarlane
Louise Mackintosh
Robert O'Connor
Manslaughter melodrama stars Colbert and March
A film about a woman jailed for murder who seeks vengeance on the man she loved, only to discover vengeance on herself. Claudette Colbert delivers a wistful, convincing performance alongside Frederic March in this emotion stirring talking picture that critics say gets under the skin and lingers in memory.
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Claudette Colbert
Manhattan
Fredric March
Wild Company at Alabama Theatre This Week
Youth drama centers on a rich reformer’s son drawn to a nightclub entertainer. A gangster plots his crime entanglement, a court fight follows, and the son avoids prison to pursue a renewed romance. H B Warner Frank Albertson Joyce Compton Sharon Lynn lead with a strong supporting cast.
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All Talking Screen
Alabama Theatre
H. B. Warner
Frank Albertson
Joyce Compton
Sharon Lynn
Warner
Albertson
Miss Lynn
Claire McDowell
Richard Keene
Frances McCoy
Kenneth Thomson
Mildred van Dorn
Bela Lugosi
Bobby Callahan
George Fawcett
Ned Sparks Leads Fox Film at Alabama Theatre
Ned Sparks, noted screen actor, stars in Double Cross Roads at the Alabama Theatre next Wednesday. The cast includes Robert Ames Lisa Les Montagu Love and George McFarlane with Edy the Chapman Tom Jackson Charlotte Walker William V Mong and Thomas Jefferson in supporting roles. Alfred Werker directs the picture adapted by George Brooks from William Lipman's novel Yonder Grow the es.
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Sparks
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Lisa Les
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George McFarlane
Edythe Chapman
Tom Jackson
Charlotte Walker
William V. Mong
Thomas Jefferson
Alfred Werker
George Brooks
William Lipman
Theatres Listings From The Weekend Shows
At The Theatres Sun Mon Tues Jack Holt stars in The Squealer with Davey Lee and Dorothy Revier. Comedy Desert Sunk. Screen Snapshots Web Thurs Marceling Day in Sunny Skies with Benny Rubin Rex Lease and Wesley Barry. Zip Room Rank. Fri Sat The Lonesome Trail talking western with all star cast. Comedy All Stuck Up. Universal News Next Sunday The Midnight Mystery. Sun Mon Tues Wild Company with Frank Albertson H B Warner Sharon Lynn Joyce Compion. Comedy Man of War News Web Thurs Robert Ames and Lila Lee in Double Cross Roads with Ned Sparks. Comedy Boxing Gloves. Also News Fri Sat Kenneth Mackenna in Temple Tower with Marceline Day Henry B Walthall. Comedy The Big Squawk Also Next Sunday George Arliss in Disraeli. ALTAZAR Sun Mon Tues Web Claudette Colbert Frederic March in Manslaughter. Comedy Paramount News Thurs Fri Sat Cyril Maude in Grumpy with Phillip Holmes Frances Dade Paul Lukes and Paul Cavanaugh. Talking features and News ext Sunday Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald in Lets Go.
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Jack Holt
Davey Lee
Dorothy Revier
Camedy
Benny Rubin
Rex Lease
Wesley Barry
George Arliss
Disraeli
Altazar Sun
Claudette Colbert
Frederic March
Paramount News
Cyril Maude
Phillip Holmes
Frances Dade
Paul Lukes
Paul Cavanaugh
Jack Oakie
Jeanette MacDonald
Soup to Nuts Comedy Romance Opens at Houston Theatre
Fox Movietone presents Soup to Nuts a broad laugh picture from writer Rube Goldberg. Benjamin Stoloff directs a romantic couple tangled by misunderstandings as Ted Healy and his Racketeers offer misguided help. Stars include Stanley Smith Lucile Browne Frances McCoy and Charles Winninger.
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Fox Movietone
Rude Goldberg
Houston
Benjamin Stoloff
Stanley Smith
Lucile Browne
Ted Healy
Frances McCoy
Charles Winninger
Native and Fox Movies Plate Mixed Theatre Cards
Fragmented rail of film titles and casts lists multiple titles. Entries reference Skeets Gallatzher Lilian Roth Spencer Tracy Claire Luce Irene Richfin H B Warner Raymond Hackett and Charles Farrell with programs like Up the River Moonlight and Ma tel Blossoms Chimp Mystery Soup to Nuts and Fox Movietone coverage.
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Sun
Spencer Tracy
Claire Luce
Matel
Foxews
Irene Richfin
H. B. Warner
Raymond Hackett
Fox Movietone News
Davey Lee Back on Screen at Strand
Davey Lee stars in The Squealer at the Strand with Jack Holt as the father figure and Dorothy Revier, promising a life like drama about family, truth, and reunion. Also shown are Sunny Skies a comedy romance with Marceline Day and Rex Lease and Lonesome Train a Western thriller all stars.
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Davey Lee
Temple Tower Thrill Film Opens at Alabama Theatre
Movietone all talker brings Bulldog Drummond peril as a jewel thief and the Masked Strangler threaten a lover in Temple Tower. Kenneth MacKenna Marceline Day and Henry B. Walthall lead in this Fox release opening next Friday.
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Alabama Theatre
Kenneth MacKenna
Marceline Day
Henry B. Walthall
H. C. Meeile
Donald Gallaher
Dilemma of Youth in Fox Play At Houston Theatre
Raymond Hackett must choose between his mother’s sacrifice and his happiness in the Fox stage production On Your Back starring Irene Rich as Julianne the modiste. The drama, adapted from Rita Welman, climaxes as a chorus girl whom Julianne had trusted with gowns on easy credit seeks repayment from a millionaire, testing loyalties and relationships. Supporting cast includes H. B. Warner Marie ...
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Fox
Irene Rich
Julanne
Modiste
New York
Houston Theatre
Rita Welman
Julianne
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