Desert Song Opens At Broadhurst Tomorrow
Warner Brothers presents the first all talking musical on stage and screen in The Desert Song at the Broadhurst for three days. The all star screen cast includes John Boles Louise Fazenda Carlotta King Myrna Loy Del Elliott and a 100 voice chorus. Roy Del Ruth directs and Harvey Gates adapts the Brergman Harbach Hammerstein Schwab Mandel play with music by Sigmund Rotberg.
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Broadhurst Theatre
Otto Harbach
Oscar Hammerstein
Laurence Schwab
Frank Mandel
Sigmund Rotberg
Women Prisoner Increases in Alabama Commitments
Alabama prison data show last year the number of women admitted to state prisons rose while male commitments declined. The shift alters the gender balance of inmates and may affect staffing and program needs nationwide.
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Alabama
Protection Surprising Film Comes to Rialto
A Fox Films drama directed by Benjamin Stoloff shows a newspaper editor dictating a racketeer murder tale before the actual crime occurs. The surprising sequence unfolds as the editor outlines events prior to the murder, with full explanation saved for the on screen viewing.
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Areporter
Fox Films
Benjamin Stoloff
Rialto Theater
Brazil Family Faces Genetic Curses Face Handless Generations
In Rio de Janeiro a single family has produced five members with missing hands and feet across two generations. Three children, their uncle and their father suffer the condition. Brazilian doctors say the lineage should not be allowed to procreate to prevent further descendants.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
A Moral Quandary in Business Ethics
A Viennese dialogue discusses a client paying $3,000 when $2,500 was owed. It asks whether morals require returning half of the $500 difference, framing the issue as a test of ethical business conduct and where to draw the line between fairness and obligation.
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Mortiz
Dad
Abe
Die Muskete
Vienna
This Week at High Point Theaters Listings
This week at High Point theaters features Desert Song with an all star cast on Monday to Wednesday at Bradhurst. Noahs Ark plays Thursday and Friday to Saturday. Rialto presents Ben Hur on Monday and Tuesday, Protection on Wednesday and Thursday, and Hoot Gibson in Smiling Guns on Friday and Saturday.
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High Point Theaters
Broadhurst
Desert Song
Rialto
Orpheum House Closes All Week for Tom Mix Screening
The Orpheum House theater will be closed for the week and reopen next Saturday with a showing of Tom Mix in Soft Boiled.
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Orpheum House
Tom Mix
Ritz Offers Daily Film Bill with Notable Names
The Ritz presents Jolson in The Jazz Singer Monday and Tuesday. Dorothy Sebastian and Lawrence Gray star in Rainbow on Wednesday. Ben Lyon and Shirley Mason feature in The Flying Marine on Thursday.
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Ritz
Jolson
Dorothy Sebastian
Lawrence Gray
Ben Lyon
Shirley Mason
Ben Hur Returns to Rialto for Two-Day Engagement
Ramon Novarro stars in Ben Hur in a return engagement at the Rialto theater tomorrow and Tuesday. The film, shot in Italy and California, features grand Greco Roman scenes including the chariot race and the Star of Bethlehem. Cast includes Betty Bronson, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Carmel Myers, and Nigel de Brulier.
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Ramon Novarro
Betty Bronson
May McAvoy
Carmel Myers
Francis X. Bushman
Italy
California
A. L. Erlanger
Charles B. Dillingham
F. Ziegfeld, Jr
Rialto
Fred Niblo
Antioch Circus
Messala
Lew Wallace
America
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ben-Hur
Esther
Iras
Claire McDowell
Kathleen Key
Nigel de Brulier
Mitchell Lewis
Frank Currier
France Could Enact 60 Million Tax Cut This Year
Paris reports Henri Cheron finance minister outlines a 60 million dollar tax cut in the 1930 budget. Owing to higher than expected tax yields this year he proposes immediate reductions on select taxes to take effect at once.
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Paris
Henri Cheron
Noahs Ark Screening Promised For High Point Youth
The Broadhurst Theatre to show Noahs Ark the last three days of the week with a special Thursday morning 10 oclock children’s showing. Admission 10 cents for children, 25 cents for adults. Film by Darryl F Zanuck directed by Michael Curtiz costs over two million dollars, cast includes Dolores Costello George OBrien Noah Beery Myrna Loy and others.
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Dotores Costello
George ‘O Brien
Broadhurst
Broadhurst Theatre
Wagmer
High Point
Warner Bros
Darryl Francis Zanuck
Michael Curtiz
Dolores Costello
George O’brien
Noah Beery
Louise Fazenda
Guvnn Williams
Paul McAlister
Nigel de Brulier
Andre Randolf
Armand Kaliz
Myrna Loy
William V. Mong
Malcolm Waite
Noble Johnson
Joe Bonomo
Health Superstitions On Pure Nitrogen and Cyanide Deaths
Dr. Morris Fishbein reviews how pure nitrogen or cyanide causes instant asphyxia and death, while prolonged carbon monoxide exposure yields a progression of symptoms from increased breathing to unconsciousness. He notes awareness gaps after revival and compares these processes to fatal respiratory diseases.
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Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Yandell Henderson
Howardard W. Haggard
Photographer Outsmarts Lindy Delays Anne’s Training Flight
In Hicksville on August 24 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh attempted a second training flight. A Roosevelt Field photographer pursued them in a faster plane, forcing Lindbergh to land after futile evasive maneuvers. The incident ended with Lindbergh shaking his fist at the pursuing pilot.
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Lindy
Anne
Hicksville
N. Y
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
70, Still Attending School
Mrs. Mary J. Cain, 70, has earned a master of arts degree from Howard College in Birmingham and is pursuing a doctor of philosophy.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mary J. Cain
Howard College
Ritz 10 Show The Flying Marine Last of the Week
The Ritz theater presents The Flying Marine a synchronized Columba production with air stunts and dramatic romance. Ben Lyon Shirley Mason and Jason Robards star in a tale of brotherly love sacrifice and a love triangle with thrilling climaxes.
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Ritz
Flying Marine
Columbia
Ritz Theater
Ben Lyon
Shirley Mason
Jason Robards
Molly
Mitch
Secret engagement whispered by Lily and lover
A discordant note from Leipzig where Lily hints at showing her male companion off as a fiancé. She warns secrecy and restraint urging no public announcement yet. The speaker, identified as Der Lustige Sachse, adds a taunting line about not finding a fool to marry.
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Darling
Lily
Winston-Salem bids for national narcotics farm site
Winston-Salem boosters press for the government narcotics farm as bids open October 5. Dr. W. L. Treadway says a Baltimore contractor seeks site details and equipment. Sites under consideration include NC SC KY WV TN AL GA and near Atlanta penitentiary for eastern farm. western near Leavenworth in KS AR OK MO TX.
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Washington
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Raleigh
Wilmington
Charlotte
High Point
Greensboro
Salisbury
W. L. Treadway
Public Health Service
Dr. Treadway
Baltimore
Treadway
Jas. A. Wetmore
Winston- Salem
South Carolina
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Atlanta Penitentiary
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
Draw Bet in Park Ends With Shared Sweetheart
A park wager about which event would occur first leads to a surprising twist as both bettors discover the man’s sweetheart is the same woman, leaving them unable to declare a winner. The anecdote from Faun in Vienna highlights a humorous, fate-filled encounter.
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Faun
Vienna
California Prohibits Airborne Shooting of Game
Statute bars frightening or shooting game from aircraft in California, establishing unlawful practice penalties and enforcement standards under state wildlife law.
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California
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