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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1930
Page
2
The Melody Man a Columbia all talking musical drama comes to the American theater Monday and Tuesday adapted from a Herbert Fields Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart stage play with a full color sequence showing a social function at the Austrian Emperor’s court in a royal salon setting and festive attire.
The article notes elaborate early twentieth century dresses and lists stars William Collier Jr Alice Day and John St Polis in The Melody Man with supporting players Johnny Walker Mildred Harris Tenen Holtz and Lee Kohlmar. R William Neill is credited for the megaphone work.
Gilbert Emery reports high temperatures in Death Valley while filming Behind That Curtain at Furnace Creek with Fox Movietone. The all talking drama stars Warner Baxter and Lois Moran with Karl Derr Biggers’ romance tale on location, opening next Wednesday and Thursday at the American theater.
Eight cast members star in Bride of the Desert a Rayart feature with Alice Calhoun and LeRoy Mason. A simple set shows a ranch cabin in the western desert where loneliness tests a newlywed couple as a fugitive murderer hides nearby.
Mrs. May Mc Fadden was arraigned on intoxication charges before Judge Alva Corlett and sentenced to 15 days in jail. She asked who would care for her cat if jailed, and the judge gave the cat the same 15 day sentence to share the punishment.
Monday and Tuesday The Melody Man plays. Wednesday and Thursday Lois Moran is seen in Behind the Curtain. Friday and Saturday Bride of the Desert screens.
The page lists a weekday program titled Show of Shows running Monday through Thursday at Broadhurst, with Cecil DeMille’s Dynamite scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The listing provides theater programming details and film names for the weekend.
The Rialto presents Billie Dove in The Painted Angel on Monday and Tuesday. Married In Hollywood screens Wednesday and Thursday. So This Is College plays Friday and Saturday.
The Orpheum presents Henry Prather and his Buzzin Around Company daily all week with complete changes on Wednesday and Friday. The Ritz screens Broadway Scandals Monday and Tuesday followed by Tell Me Why on Wednesday and Thursday.
Members of the Dramatics and Folk Dancing clubs at the Junior High, directed by Miss Dandridge Blakely and Miss Myrtle Titman, presented a program in the school auditorium Friday afternoon. Attendance rose due to bad weather keeping parents away, allowing all students to view the show. The event was well executed with festive student performances. Berliners adopt the telephone habit with about 472000 telephones and 1300000 calls daily.
The Broadhurst opens a three day engagement at noon with Show of Shows featuring 77 stars and 500 Hollywood beauties in a no plot musical revue in Technicolor. Cecil B. DeMille's first talking film Dynamite headlines the late week, with a star filled cast including Conrad Nagel Kay Johnson Charles Bickford Julia Faye and Joel McCrea in a buoyant program of numbers and dances.
The Rialto Theater announces a slate of upcoming attractions with enhanced sound and bigger pictures. Billie Dove stars in The Painted Angel followed by So This Is College Paris Bound Welcome Danger The Mysterious Island Cameo Kirby Seven Days Leave Frozen Justice His First Command Applause and more. A Wild West cabaret adds color to the program and Married In Hollywood plays next Wednesday and Thursday.
Thompson writes and directs the Columbia musical comedy at the Ritz Theater with Sally ONeill, Carmel Myers, and Jack Egan leading. De St Germain outfits five chorus numbers with blue, black, silver and net fabrics, highlighted by ONeill's simple gowns and Myers' elaborate ensembles. Tell Me Why opens next week with restricted screenings for women and men and a parental age rule.
Individual parasols, small enough for one person, arrive in bright colors as shoppers prepare for April showers.
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