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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1931
Page
2
Sound engineers at the Paramount theatre completed a full technical inspection and readjustment of the entire sound system. The updated setup can reproduce vibrations higher than a thousand per second, surpassing prior limits and achieving a balance expected to be among the best in the world of science.
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, a famed screen pair, are reunited in Raoul Walsh's Fox Movietone production The Man Who Came Back. The couple, beloved for their on screen chemistry, star together for the sixth time, renewing their long standing collaboration first seen in 7th Heaven.
The It Girl's latest No Limit dates from nearly four years ago while her other titles Street Angel Lucky Star Sunny Side Up and High Society show a long break. Farrell starred in Lil iom with Rose Hobart and The Princess and the Plumber with Mau reen O'Sullivan. The Man Who Came Back is praised as the strongest romantic drama featuring regeneration with Kenneth MacKenna William Holden Mary Forbes Wh Rick Haupt William Worthington and Peter Gawthorne.
Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett star in the all talking adaptation of the stage hit “New Moon” at the Broadhurst theater. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer touts this joint screen appearance as the most distinctive picture of the 1930 season. The story follows a lieutenant who falls for his officer’s betrothed amid romance, cavalry clashes, and Russian intrigue with two operatic stars delivering Romberg song hits.
Robert Kintz and Jos Pisolo confessed bootleggers at the Allegheny workhouse face $3,000 fines each and ask Judge Morrow to allow instalment payments. They propose $15 to $20 monthly, which would take about ten years to satisfy the penalties.
A historical note asserts that timber two inches thick will hold a man on foot while four inches will bear a man on horseback and between six and sour inches can support a team of horses with roads.
Curwood thriller River's End adapted for the talking picture opens Friday at the Broadhurst. Stars include Charles Bickford Evelyn Knapp J Farrell McDonald David Torrence Junior Coghlan Zasu Pitts Walter McGrail and Tom Santschi in a dramatic tale of murder mystery and romance set against dramatic natural beauty. Michael Curtiz directed the feature screenplay by Charles Kenyon. Dorothy Mackaill portrays the lead in Once Sinner opening Wednesday at the Broadhurst with Guthrie MacClintic directing. Mackaill says the drama teaches a life lesson about truth and marriage urging silence to protect love.
The passage notes the human ear is formed to receive only certain sounds and identifies the upper hearing limit as 70,000 air vibrations per second, indicating the biologically defined frequency boundary for human hearing.
Silent era actors Laura LaPlante and John Boles headline a scene from Captain of the Guard. The production showcases their portrayal in a dramatic guard station setting.
This week's theater slate features Inside the Lines with Betty Compson and Ralph Forbes on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday present Hell's Island with Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Dorothy Sebastian. Thursday and Friday screen Manslaughter with Claudette Colbert and Fredric March and the comedy Below Zero with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Saturday offers Phantom of the Desert starring Jack Perrin and Starlight ace of Wild Horses.
The Broadhurst program book lists Monday and Tuesday as Metro tone News with Paramount Comedy The Big Splash. Lawrence Tibbet and Grace Moore appear with Adolph Menjou in New Moon. Wednesday and Thursday present Scenic Runaway Boys and Love Your Neighbor. Dorothy Mackaill stars in Once a Sinner. Friday and Saturday again feature Metro tone News followed by Spell of the Circus and River's End starring Charles Bickford.
On Monday and Tuesday the Rialto presents Cheer Up and Smile starring Arthur Lake Dixie Lee and Olga Badanova with Whispering Jack Smith. John Boles and Laura LaPlante star in Captain of the Guard. Friday and Saturday Walley Wales appears in Red Fork Range with Chapter Seven Phantom of the West featuring Tom Tyler.
Paramount presents Clara Row in No Limit on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with Hot Dog Dogville Comedy Bombay Traveltalk and Paramount Sound News. Thursday Friday and Saturday features Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in The Man Who Came Back along with Row Row Row Screensong and Paramount Sound News.
The Rialto opens next Monday and Tuesday with Cheer Up and Smile a Fox Movietone musical drama directed by Sidney Lanfield. A campus romance with plenty of songs features Dixie Lee Arthur Lake and Olga Badanova with Jack Smith and Charles Judels in support. A college prank lands a boy in trouble then in New York he works as a nightclub drummer and laughs follow each complication. Also teased is Universal’s Captain of the Guard with Laura La Plante and John Boles.
Charles Bickford stars in a dramatic musical epic of the French Revolution at the Rialto, blending music and drama with large-scale spectacle. The production features love songs by Cadman and Roehmeld, a rousing Marseillaise, and thousands of extras in climactic battle scenes.
ASHEVILLE January 31. The city faced difficulty meeting January payroll as several banks closed. The BE. W. Grove estate paid $40,000 in taxes today, providing needed funds to the city.
A concise note explains that the hottest stars emit intense white light, medium ones give a yellowish glow, and the coolest stars glow reddish. The phrasing emphasizes perceived color as a temperature indicator.
Clara Bow departs the flapper niche in No Limit a Paramount comedy romance with Douglas Thayer as a charming crook. Owl-eyed usherette Bunny O Day inherits a Park Avenue flat and a Rolls Royce discovers a gambling house turns into high life danger then romance blooms amid a surprising climax. Cast includes Norman Foster and Harry Green with director Frank Tuttle. Show dates three days starting Monday at the Paramount.
Speedy cruisers in London report England nears completion of a new light cruiser named Leander. On Admiralty confidential list, details kept secret. It will displace about 6700 tons with 4 fourteen inch anti aircraft guns and 8 six inch guns, plus a twenty one inch torpedo. It is rumored to exceed 35 knots with plans for France to spend 80 million dollars on public works in the coming year.
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