Galaxy of stars at Broadhurst theater adds French romance
The Broadhurst bills a spicy French romance and colorful comedy with a Zane Grey thriller. Films include Sweet Hearts and Wives starring Billie Dove and The Florodora Girl with Marion Davies. The Border Legion features Jack Holt and Richard Arlen. A clever English detective, Clive Brook, shines in Sweet Hearts and Wives as a stylish divorce-case specialist.
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Billie Dove
Florodora
Marion Davies
Jack Holt
Border Legion
Broadhurst Theater
Richard Arlen
Billie
Clive Brook
Sherlock Holmes
Broadhurst
Florodora Girl and Border Legion Headline Week at The Rialto
Marion Davies stars in The Florodora Girl a witty Gay Nineties comedy romance directed by Harry Beaumont. The Border Legion a frontier action epic filmed by Paramount arrives Friday and Saturday with authentic 1870s West scenery and dialogue.
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Marion Davies
Harry Beaumont
Talking Screen
Miss Davies
Floridians Try Florida's First Big Sheep Range
On Florida's west coast near Punta Gorda a 5000 head sheep range called Big Slough is operated by three cattlemen Tom Smith William Bryant and Walter Mann. They run an experimental open range with mounted herders in tropical surroundings.
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Punta Gorda
Fla
Florida
Tom. Smith
William Bryant
Walter Mann
Speed ace says commercial jets must fly faster
Lieut. Alford J. Williams argues that 130 or 10 mph is absurd as the top speed for commercial air travel. He warns the public to view aviation as a hobby if flights remain so slow.
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Washington
Alford J. Williams
Washington collects over seven million in automobile license fees
The state of Washington reports collecting more than $7,000,000 in automobile license fees for the year. The figure reflects receipts from vehicle registrations and related charges, contributing to state revenue.
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State of Washington
Powple Broadway Previews Noahs Ark and Nanette
Dolores Costello stars in Noahs Ark at the Broadway with Vitaphone sound. The dual role follows a dancing girl amid World War and a rescue by a shell burst. Also mid week shows No No Nanette as First National’s Technicolor screen musical with Ber nice Claire and cast.
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Dolores Costello
Nannette
Warner Bros. Vitaphone
Miss Costello
Nanette
First National
Bernice Claire
Alexander Gray
Lucien Littlefield
Louise Fazenda
Janet Gaynor Stars in Christina at the Orpheum Two Days
Janet Gaynor acclaimed from 7th Heaven brings her Fox Film Christina to the Orpheum for Monday and Tuesday showings with Movietone sound. The Dutch island tale follows Christina who finds love with Jan the circus rider while a jealous owner vies for him.
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Janet Gaynor
Christina
the Orpheum
7Th Heaven
Fox
Orpheum
Tristram Tupper
Zuyder Zee
Jan
Charles Morton
All Quiet on the Western Front to Play at Broadhurst
Broadhurst management announces All Quiet on the Western Front will run for three days starting Monday August 4. The film, praised as a landmark war drama, will be shown daily from 1 to 11 pm with two performances each period.
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Gray
Claire
Broadhurst
Western Front
the Broadhurst
New York Telegraph
Central Theater
Eric Remarque
American police gain on auto thieves in North Carolina
The auto theft bureau of the North Carolina Department of Revenue reports progress for June. Of 65 cars stolen and not recovered, 76 cars stolen in prior months were recovered in June, with cooperation from city and county police and the state.
In the Next Room at Paramount Opens Next Friday
The First National and Vitaphone mystery thriller In the Next Room debuts at the Paramount theater next Friday. Jack Mulhall stars as the newspaper reporter in a story set in an old house where a murder occurred forty years ago.
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Paramount Theater
Jack Mulhall
Vitaphone
Sidney Blackmer in Broadhurst Picture
Sidney Blackmer, North Carolina native and University of North Carolina alumnus, pursues acting after early legal studies. He lands a role in The Thirteenth Chair, serves in the war, then moves to California with wife Leonore Ulrich and enters motion pictures. This is his third picture.
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Sidney Blackmer
Billie Dove
North Carolina
University of N. C
California
Leonore Ulrich
France
Auto Theft Recovery Efforts Cut Stolen Cars Significantly
Two agencies focus on recovering stolen automobiles. The theft bureau of the department of revenue operates in every highway district, and the state highway patrol also prioritizes recovery. The monthly report shows more cars recovered than stolen by 11, with no active organized gangs. Many thefts involved bootleggers using lower priced cars.
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Department of Revenue
State Highway Patrol
Beach encounter sparks playful rebuke on a fine day
A pretty girl in a fashionable bathing suit sits on the beach when a young man greets her. She retorts she does not know him, and he replies that it would hardly matter since he would scarcely know her from Eve. Tit-Bits.
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Adam
Hannibal Residents Form Mark Twain Society
Residents of Hannibal Missouri have formed a Mark Twain society to honor the writer and celebrate his memory with events and programs.
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Hannibal, Mo
Mark Twain
Movietone Follies at the Paramount 1930
A cast of rising stars premieres The New Movietone Follies of 1930 at the Paramount Theater. El Brendel Marjorie White Frank Richardson N Gel Francis William Collier Jr Miriam Seegar headline a sparkling musical romance with a strong supporting lineup. Brendel’s audible film rise began with The Cock Eyed World and grew through Frozen Justice and Sunny Side Up establishing him as a top comedy find.
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Luster
Paramount Theater
el Brendel
Marjorie White
Frank Richardson
Négel Francis
William Collier, Jr
Miriam Seegar
Brendel
Audible Pictures
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Flame of France
Foreign Legion
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Fife Dorsay
Clyde Cook
G Theatre
Harry Largdon In “the Big Rich
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Marian Seegar
Walter Msgrail
Grant Withers
Helen Johnson
Columbia
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Hoot Gibson
All Talking Picture
Violet Hemming
United States
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Aileen Pringle
Graham McNamee
Zip
Broadway
Mexicali Rose
Sam Hardy
Barbara Stanwyck
George O'Brien
Davey Lee
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