Siar Mill Ride on Wagon Wheel
Australian daredevil Captain Dalbeanie performs a two daily wagon wheel act with the Russell brothers circus in High Point on August 15. Born in Melbourne he race winner and wagon wheel rider claims a secret reverse balance lets him lift 215 pounds and jump a rope atop a wagon wheel.
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Capt
Dalbeanie
Russell Bros
Three Ring
High Point
Melbourne
Australia
Ld Fieds
Coolgardie
Golden Horseshoe
Eaid
Dalbearie
Russell Circus
Dalbearne
Suys
Dalbeanle
Dalbeante
Great Flirtation Opens Wednesday at Rialto Theater
Adolphe Menjou and Elissa Landi star in The Great Flirtation a tale of a tempestuous romance between Europe’s famous stage couple. Menjou plays Karpath a brilliant egotistical actor who marries Zita played by Landi and takes her to America where she falls for Lynne Overman and David Manners. He returns broken and learns she regrets her betrayal.
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Adolphe Menjou
Elissa Landi
Europe
Rialto Theatre
Charles R. Rogers
Ralph Murphy
Gregory Ratoff
Menjou
Karpath
Zita
Miss Landi
America
Lynne Overman
David Manners
Manners
Two Reckless Circus Riders At High Point
The La Venia Sisters will perform daring aerial acts on a left double trapeze with Russell Bros Circus in High Point on Wednesday Aug 15. Menjou in a scene declines aid and leaves to rebuild his career. Eight hundred thousand of England’s 6,000,000 school children receive a daily milk ration funded by parents or the Public Assurance Committee.
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la Venia
Russell Bros. Circus
High Point
Gain
Menjou
England
Public Assurance Committee
President Roosevelt Plans Quick Action on Key Problems
President Roosevelt, smiling, orders swift reviews of pressing issues from his White House conference with top officials. He meets Kennedy and Moffett on new government branches, Jones and Black on RFC and Fed posts, and discusses Morgenthau, Hull, drought relief, silver rationalization, tariff prospects, and Soviet debts. Labor unrest looms with Aluminum Company strike and a railway pension case questions the railroad retirement board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil B. Dickson Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph P. Kennedy
Securities Commission
James A. Moffett
Housing Corporation
Jesse Jones
RFC
Eugene Black
Federal Reserve Board
Black
Atlanta Reserve Bank
White House
Morgenthau
Hull
Russia
Wallace
NRA
Hugh 8. Johnson
Aluminum Company of America
Administration Railroad Pension Act
Association of Railway Executives
Rairoad Retirement Board
Life of Virgin Winters and other wartime era movie reviews
A local press guide lists weekly film reviews by seven organizations for audience classes from Children to Family. Titles include Life of Virgin Winters with a limited adult audience, He Was Her Man with melodrama value, She Learned About Sailors a breezy comedy, Catherine the Great a dramatic portrait, The Witching Hour a thriller, and Great Flirtation with standout performances rated for adults.
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Idren
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society of New England Women
General Federation of Women's Clubs
California Congress of Parents and Teachers
National Council of Jewish Women
Woman's University Club of Los Angeles
United Church Brotherhood
RKO
Paramount
Alfred Santeil
Ann Harding
John Boles
Helen Vinson
Betty Furness
Louis Bromfield
Warner Bros
Lloyd Bacon
James Cagney
Joan Brondell
Frank Craven
Victor Jory
California
Broadhurst
George Marshall
Lew Ayers
Alice Faye
Harry Green
Frank Mitchell
Jack Durant
Catherine the Great at Broadhurst Theater this week
Catherine the Great opens at the Broadhurst for Wednesday and Thursday shows with Elizabeth Bergner in her American debut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr co stars as Peter III alongside Flora Robson and Sir Gerald du Maurier in a drama about Catherine II's rise. The program includes Goofy Movie No. 6 as a short.
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United States Navy
Shanghai
Mitchell and I
Catherine the Great
United Artists
Broadhurst
Paul Czinner
Potp
Adalte
Paramount
Rialto
Henry Hathaway
Tom Brown
Judith Allen
John Halliday
Sir Guy Standing
Augustus Thomas
Daughters of the American Revolution and
Society of New England
Elizabeth Bergner
London
Arch Selwyn
New York
Miss Bergner
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Peter Iiit
Gerald du Maurier
Royal Family
England
Trilby
Peter Ibbestson
le Cocq
Peter
Flora Robson
Elizabeth
Catherine
Lajos Biro
Melchair Lengyel
Arthur Wimperis
Russian Princess Wins Large Libel Settlement Over Rasputin Film
Exiled Russian princess Irina Yousoupoff received a substantial out of court payoff from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after alleging libel in Rasputin and the Empress. The sum, reportedly around 750000, follows a prior $127000 verdict in London and prompted secrecy over final figures. The film will remain in release with a note that the Natasha character is fictional.
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London
Rasputin
Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupoff
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Fannie Holtzmann
Cess
J. Robert Ruben
New York
Louis B. Mayer
Europe
Felix Youssoupoff
Russia
Youssoupoffs
Windsor Castle
Grand Duke
Alexander
Nicholas
Three Barrymores
Ethel
John
Lionel
Diana Wynyard
Natasha
Deeds Acquired for Coal Land in Moore County
North Carolina has acquired deeds to 824 acres in Moore County believed to hold usable coal deposits. E B Jeffress, chairman of the state highway commission, announced the move.
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Raleigh
Moore County
North Carolina
E. B. Jeffress
State Highway Commission
U. S. to Print More Silver Certificates
Washington August 11 1934 the government will print more silver certificates than expected backed by free silver from before the silver purchase act. Certificates will be issued at the 1.29 per ounce value with seigniorage as treasury profit. The plan may expand currency and faces questions on future policy and the use of profits.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Thomas
D. Okla
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Siar Mill
Circus
Rialto Theater
Russell Brothers
Welch's
Athleta
Miracle Man
Dalbernie
Dad Whitlark
Ripley
the Romanoffs
Miller's
Dancing Horses
France
Avalon Troupe
LA Viena Sisters
EL Kapitan
Rin-Tin-Tin
Miss DeMarr
Free Beats Choice
Fanny
U.S. Pat
Broadhurst Theatre
Alexander Korda
Henry VII
Boal and
Chevrolet
Chevrole
Fisher
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit, Michigan
General Motors
Hevrolet
North Main Street
Laughlin Chevrolet Company
Wrenn Street
U. S
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