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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1934
Page
3
In High Point the Paramount theatre completed a modern sound system upgrade. Technician M. Charles installed two broad band high frequency speakers and related gear to reproduce film audio with near perfect fidelity including words music and tonal overtones.
Mr. Charles explains a new efficiency and precision built unit to cover the frequency band from 3,000 to 12,000 cycles with uniform response to 18,000 cycles. It is used with a low frequency unit and various filters to reproduce overtones clearly for better sound. The discussion references ballroom dancing and the dance style evolution in the Coari oca derived from Maxixe.
Devotees of modern dance flock to the Carolina to see the Carioca, a new tete-a-tete tango, demonstrated in America for the first time in the musical extravaganza Flying Down to Rio. The dance, adaptable to crowded floors, features foreheads touching throughout the movement and is expected to become a dance craze.
W C Fields performs his famous golf juggling routine on a real course at Lakeside Golf club near Hollywood for the film You're Telling Me. The scene features Larry Crabbe Joan Marsh Adrienne Ames and Tammany Young as caddy as Fields mocks golf missteps for the Broadhurst production.
Delano theater owner manager Fred Bugg returned from Charlotte after signing contracts for many new and interesting pictures. He said the films are among the finest offered in the South and praised the film exchanges for the opportunities secured.
Seven reviewing bodies share ratings for this week with screenings led by House of Rothschild Param ount and You re Tell Me. Noted titles include This Man Is Mine Marvelous Man Trailer Heat Lightning Thunder ing Herd and Double Door with families and adults specified in audience classifications.
Bugg comments on confidence in audience reception for new English Street theater. He notes high first week attendance and predicts rising crowds as Delano offers first run pictures of high quality. He expects continued growth as the public learns of the program.
The listings show Paramount and Br oadhurst theatres presenting a slate of films and stage shows across a week. Highlights include George Arliss in House of Rothschild and Irene Dunne in This Man Is Mine at Paramount, Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy in A Man's Castle at Br oadhurst, Randolph Scott in Thunder ing Herd at Rialto, and Flying Down To Rio at Carolina with dancing stars Del Rio and Rogers.
Early year totals show 60 347 motion pies aherfore operating worldwide with 41 822 equipped with sound devices.
The Daily Vacation Bible School starts tomorrow morning at nine o'clock under general superintendent Mrs. A Lee Gibson. Four departments for ages four to sixteen will run two weeks with experienced workers, featuring songs Bible study memory work and handcraft.
Police hunted Dillinger gang members after Tommy Carroll was killed by five bullets while en route to St Paul. A Waterloo jailer held a woman later identified as Jean Ann Sothern Crompton, facing a federal sentence for harboring Dillinger and linked to the little Bohemia resort case. Federal agents sought other gang members in tourist camps and highways.
In some cities crime victims observe lineups—viewing suspects as the incident is recalled. Police emphasize the lineup setting mirrors where the crime occurred and aim to reduce bias in identification.
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