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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1936
Page
2
Jack Benny teams with Burns and Allen in College Holiday a Paramount all star comedy shown for three days. Laughter music and gayety mix in the new picture as Benny leads an ensemble including Burns and Allen in a light en liv en ted farce set to entertain theatergoers.
The film blends radio and screen comics led by George Burns Gracie Allen and Mary Boland with Martha Raye. Marsha Hunt Liefning of Eleanor Whitney Johnny Downs and Ben Blue supply romance. College Holiday follows scatterbrained cultists who seize a hotel to test theories with Miss Boland and Etienne Girardot in Roman costumes. Benny flees in a sheet mistaken for a fellow cultist and hatches a plan to revive the hotel by bringing in collegians to entertain paying guests.
A two day engagement begins today at the Carolina Theatre for Girls Dormitory starring Simone Simon in her film debut. The picture is acclaimed as a major screen discovery and Hollywood standout.
The Broadhurst Theatre books a double feature forTuesday and Wednesday next week. The screen attraction Fugitive In The Sky stars Jean Muir and Warren Hull in a night thriller set aboard a speeding airline above the clouds. A G-man and three criminals ride as passengers while the crime occurs unseen. The stage act Ramblin Jack Ritchie and his Blue Ridge Mountaineers bring hillbilly music and comedy plus modern songs on their southern tour.
Stage Struck a mammoth new musical romance arrives at the Paramount Theatre today and Monday featuring Dick Powell Joan Blondell Warren William Frank McHugh Jeanne Madden the Yacht Club Boys and hundreds of extras The production follows the making of a Broadway musical from casting rehearsals to opening night offering an inside look at theater life and romance with special songs by Powell Madden and Arlen plus yacht club boys numbers and dance performances
A dense weekly film page lists daily lineups across Paramount Broadhurst and Rialto venues featuring stars like Joan Blondell Dick Powell Olsen Johnson Herbert Marshall Simon Simone and Gene Autry. Highlights include stagings of Three Men on a Horse Magnificent Brute and Crash Donovan with assorted shorts.
The province of Alberta in Canada covers 255,285 square miles and has a population of 780 in the data.
Universal va Conflict stars John Wayne and Jean Rogers in a Jack London based lumber camp saga. Two rugged rivals settle their feud and end a bitter intercamp feud as it unfolds with high adventure at the Rialto theatre Monday and Tuesday.
Sing ing cowboy Gene Autry headlines a Christmas musical Western titled The Big Show at the Broadhurst Theatre. Opening Thursday for a three day engagement the production is tied to the Texas Centennial. Four national radio orchestras contribute to the show.
Rialto Theatre presents The Sky Parade one day only starring Jimmie Allen and a lineup of screen favorites including William DeMille Kent Grant Withers Dean Bartlett and Billy Lee.
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