Local Theaters Feature Talkie Stars In Variety Shows
The American Theatre hosts several talking pictures including Ladies in Love with Alice Day and Johnnie Walker, plus an all talking educational comedy and McNamee News. Clancy in Wall Street debuts as a humorous Wall Street tale, while Overland Bound brings western action with Leo Maloney and co stars Friday and Saturday.
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Chesterfield
American Theatre Tomorrow
Hollywood
Alice Day
Johnnie Walker
Alice
McNamee News
New York
Gams
Clancy
Wall Street
Johnny Walker
Marjorie
Babe’ Kane
Wisconsin airport survey shows 68 landing fields
A survey of 159 Wisconsin cities finds 68 landing fields including airports and emergency facilities. About 2.5 million dollars is invested in these fields and equipment across the state.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Farmer Charlie Parrish Found Dead in New Hope Farm
Goldsboro July 18 A 70 year old farmer Charlie Parrish was found dead on his New Hope township farm. The coroner ruled death by self inflicted gunshot. A shotgun lay nearby as investigators reviewed the scene.
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Goldsboro
Charlie Parrish
New Hope Township
T. R. Robinson
Caledonia Prison Farm Talkie At Broadhurst This Week
A talking picture from Caledonia Prison Farm, featuring Governor O Max Gardner and U S Agriculture Secretary Arthur M Hyde, will play at Broadhurst Theatre Monday and Tuesday. The eight minute film shows live at home programs, prison scenes, and a 250 inmate field scene with singing, plus Lon Chaney’s The Unholy Three and a Christie comedy.
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Caledonia
Broadhurst
Garner
Broadhurst Theatre
O. Max Gardner
U. S
Arthur M. Hyde
Paramount Sound News
North Carolina
Lon Chaney
Isle of Escape Battles Monte Blue and Noah Beery at Paramount
Monte Blue uses his boxing background in Isle of Escape a Warner Bros Vitaphone production arriving at the Paramount. Blue clashes with Noah Beery in a barroom fight amid South Sea island natives as white men contend on Samora. Myrna Loy and Betty Compson also star in this colorful talking screen adventure.
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Monte Blue
Paramount
Monte
Isle of Escape
Warner Bros
Vitaphone
Noah Beery
South Sea Islands
Samora
Equator
Myrna Loy
Betty Compson
Betty Compton
Noah” Beery
Transatlantic Air Mail Ties Cologne and Basle Lines to Cherbourg
Air mail service to transatlantic steamers will be speeded by lines from Cologne Germany and Basle Switzerland to Cherbourg France, linking key European ports for faster wartime mail delivery.
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Cologne
Germany
Basle
Switzerland
Cherbourg
France
Cohan Drama Presents Richard Dix in Seven Keys Film
Richard Dix stars in a Paramount talking screen drama adapted from George M. Cohan and Earl Derr Biggers. He plays a hero novelist who finds an eerie night of adventure in a deserted inn as he seeks a quiet place to write.
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Richard Dix
Paramount Theatre
Baldpate
Earl Derr Biggers
Dix
Air Health Rules Plan Quarantine Stations Worldwide
The League of Nations Health Committee plans quarantine stations on all airlines worldwide. Surgeon General Hugh S. Cummings of the U S Public Health Service says passengers and pilots will be inspected to detect contagious diseases such as cholera and plague.
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Air Health
Washington
League of Nations Health Committee
Hugh S. Cummings
U. S. Public Health Service
Nebraska hunts metal on gravel roads with nail picker
Nebraska officials deploy a magnetic device named nail picker to comb gravel highways for metal hazards and tire damaging debris. The tool draws out nails and sharp fragments, aiming to reduce flat tires and improve road safety for motorists.
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Nebraska
Unholy Three Stars Lon Chaney in Broadhurst Run
Lon Chaney headlines the Broadhurst program with The Unholy Three at the Paramount featuring five vocal characterizations and ventriloquism. Also showing Show Girl in Hollywood with Alice White and Jack Mulhall, plus A Man From Wyoming starring Gary Cooper and June Collyer.
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Lon Chaney
Hollywood
Wyoming
Broadhurst
Alice White
Jack Mulhall
Gary Cooper
June Collyer
First National
Broadhurst Theatre
Montmarte Cafe
Hollywood Theatre
Hollywood Boulevard
Beverly Hills
Hillside
Little Dixie Dugan
Blanche Sweet
Ford Sterling
John Miljan
Techicolor
Cooper
Far West
Red Hot Rhythm sparks witty alley slang previews
Previewers describe Pathe's all dialogue film Red Hot Rhythm featuring Alan Hale with sharp repartee and Big Stem style wit. Writers Earl Baldwin and Walter De Leon, veterans of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway nightlife, craft the lively dialogue.
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Pathe
Alan Hale
Orpheum Theater
Earl Baldwin
Walter de Leon
Ace
Tin Pan Alley
Broadway
Record Hen of London to Skipton Sets Laying Pace
A hen moving from London to Skipton, Yorkshire, claims the record as oldest laying bird. Bought at age six as a brood hen for ducks, she began laying eggs soon after and has continued steadily for eleven years averaging three eggs weekly.
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London
Skipton
Yorkshire
Mills May Close Bombay Mills in Sassoot Group
Ten mills of the Sassoot group in Bombay posted notices announcing a temporary closure on August 16 unless trade conditions improve. About 20,000 workers are involved.
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Bombay
House Banking Group Faces Busy Summer
Members of the house banking committee begin a summer recess while carrying official duties. Each will study months of hearings on branch, chain and group banking to resolve issues stemming from consolidation and the decline of unit banking.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Prize Songster At Paramount
A two day run begins tomorrow at the Paramount theater featuring Harry Richman and Joan Bennett in Puttin on the Ritz. The film showcases Richman as the prize songster delivering musical numbers amid the comedy and period set pieces.
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Ritz
Harry Richman
Joan Bennett
Paramount Theater
He Knew Women Opens At Orpheum For Two Days
Radio Pictures all talking comedy drama He Knew Women will play Monday and Tuesday at the Orpheum theatre. Star Lowell Sherman headlines opposite Alice Joyce with two new screen arrivals David Manners and Frances Date in supporting turns.
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Radio
Orpheum Theatre
Lowell Sherman
Alice Joyce
Sherman
Miss Joyce
David Manners
Arleigh
Frances Date
Thousand Students Reserve Dorm Rooms at State College
More than 1,000 students booked dormitory rooms at North Carolina State College for the coming year. Superintendent T. T. Wellens announced an all time high enrollment with 378 freedmen signing for rooms, breaking the 1929 record.
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State College
Raleigh
N. C. State College
T. T. Wellens
First public demonstration of the telephone in 1876
The record notes the first public demonstration of the telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. It highlights the device's debut to the public and its role in showcasing new communication technology.
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Philadelphia
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G Theatre
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Puttin
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High Point
Mary Carr
Babe” Kane
Leo Maloney
Seegar
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