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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1931
Page
2
Western star Ken Maynard speaks of chasing adventure and his early life on a Texas ranch and in a circus as he promotes his latest thriller Alias The Bad Man showing Friday and Saturday at the Broadhurst theatre. He recalls joining a circus and becoming a bucking horse rider before entering films.
The speaker recalls taking up aviation as a passion and urges keeping youth active. He asserts that every man remains a boy at heart and that giving boys healthy adventures channels their energy away from trouble and gangsters. He cites hunting, fishing, the Boy Scouts, and Naval Scouts as constructive outlets.
Fish possess an acute sense of hearing that detects sounds far below human hearing and just above the violin’s highest notes, revealing a remarkable sensitivity to underwater acoustics.
Three stars Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez and Pearl Cavanagh headline the drama Transgression at the Rialto on Wednesday. The story from Kate Jordans novel The Next Corner follows a young Englishwoman in Paris as she faces conscience and temptation. Director Herbert Brenon calls it a major triumph with a strong supporting cast including Nance ONeill Ruth Weston John St Polis and Adrienne dAmbricourt. The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor stands 160 feet high.
Clark Gable and Madge Evans headline the MGM drama Sporting Blood guiding a famed thoroughbred through abuse toward renewal. Based on a Saturday Evening Post story, the film traces a horse and human journeys with a large cast including Ernest Torrence Lew Cody Marie Prevost and Harry Holmen.
Paramount shows include Madge Evans in a drama with Bobby Jones and a comedy Love Business with Our Gang. Also Miracle Woman with Tara Stanwick and The Albany Branch. Other features: Blossom Time, Public Defender, Fisherman’s Luck fable, and Paramount Sound News. Brockhurst offers Reckless Hour with Dorothy Mackaill and Conrad Nagel and Shot Gun Wedding. Fox presents Alias the Bad Man and Back Pawn with new Vanishing Legion serial. Rialto airs Chiselers of Hollywood Don’t Divorce Him Air Police and King of the Wild serial.
Monday features Harold Bell Wright’s The Eyes of the World with John Holland Una Merkel and Nance O’Neil plus headliner comedy. Tuesday and Wednesday present Montgomery in The Easiest Way with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Laughing Gravy. Thursday and Friday pair Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich in Morocco with a cartoon and Strange As It Seems. Saturday shows Buck Jones in Desert Vengeance with another comedy and cartoon.
Twenty years of study shaped Rich ard Cramer into a critic of hoodlum leadership and political power. He presents a vivid portrayal in Air Police, showing how a curb-side thief can become a national menace. The Rialto theater screens the film beginning Friday with Kenneth Harlan, Josephine Dunn, and Charles Delaney in lead roles.
Storks once valued as a sanitary asset in Holland are declining in numbers. The cause suggested is their consumption of poisoned grasshoppers during the wintering period in South Africa.
Theaters announce start times for two featured films Sporting Blood and The Miracle Woman. Sporting Blood shows Monday and Tuesday at 1:30 and 8:30 with 80 minutes of shorts before the feature. The Miracle Woman plays Wednesday and Thursday with showings at 1:30 5:40 7:40 and 9:45, running ahead of it.
Harry Carey and Edwina Booth reunite in Mascot Pictures all talking twelve chapter serial The Vanishing Legion. Set in the new West oil fields with Rex and Frankie Darrow, the cast includes William Desmond and Yakima Canutt. First episode debuts at Broadhurst theater next Friday and Saturday with Alias the Bad Man and shorts on the bill.
Betty Compson headlines as Mahyna in the James Cruze talkie She Got What She Wanted at the Broadhurst Theatre. Eddie and trio of suitors drive a tale of true love and comic misadventure with a strong supporting cast and Tiffany presenting the picture.
A historical note explains stones like opal and sapphire arise from basic compounds. It states opal is formed from flint and water, while sapphire’s blue results from iron acting on alumina, illustrating mineral composition concepts.
A review of The Miracle Woman starring Barbara Stanwyck at the Paramount portrays a dramatic expose of religious racketeering. The film follows a woman evangelist who confronts lions in a den and finds truth through a blind lover, delivering a unique story with strong performances.
Richard Dix stars in a modern action drama at the Paramount Friday. The Public Defender promises masked men, danger, romance, and high adventure as Dix seeks excitement in a fast paced melodrama.
The text reviews a virile drama featuring a lone hero fighting society’s enemies and triumphing. It notes Cimarron with Shirley Grey Alan Roscoe Edmund Breese and Boris Karloff in supporting roles. Dix appears as a young war hero in an action play drawn from front page headlines.
Light heavyweight Joe Knight of Cairo, Georgia, is scheduled to face Carl Knowles in a Savannah boxing bout. The match pairing sets up a local showdown with Knight aiming to advance his pro record and attract regional attention.
The Reckless Hour starring Dorothy Mackaill opens at Broadhurst Theater tomorrow for two days. Mackaill plays Margaret Nichols, a beautiful but poor fashion model, in a deeply human role. Conrad Nagel, Joan Blondell, H B Warner, Walter Byron and others support. Adapted from Arthur Richman’s Ambush. screen play by Frances Ryerson and Robert Lord. directed by John Francis.
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