Show Boat Opens At Broadhurst Theater
Broadhurst Theater to present the Universal talking picture Show Boat for four days starting Monday. The film blends drama with Ziegfeld musical highlights featuring Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut, with Fox Movietone News segments and matinée bargains daily.
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Magnolia
Laura la Plante
Ravenal
Joseph Schildkraut
Miss Ferber
Calliope
Fox Movietone News
Broadhurst
Talking News
Charlotte
Woman from Hell at Orpheum Promoted as Cinema Novelty
Previewers hail The Woman from Hell based on the stage play From Hell Came a Lady. Dee Renaud, played by Mary Astor, is a 20 year old with a sharp tongue and expansive vocabulary, driving the central drama at the Orpheum Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.
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Hell
Jaime del Dio
Helen Morgan Sings Blues in Show Boat at Broadhurst
Helen Morgan, famed blues singer, appears in the singing and talking picture Show Boat opening a four day run at the Broadhurst Monday. Borrowed from Florenz Ziegfeld, she performs songs from Show Boat and continues as Julie in the production after earlier triumphs in Chicago and New York clubs.
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Broadhurst Theatre
Edna Ferber
New York
High Point
Edna Kerber
Florenz Ziegfeld
Helen Morgan
the Broadhurst
The
Picture Company
Ziegfeld
Miss Morgan
Danville
Ill
Chicago
George White
Julie
Devil's Sweetheart at Hell Amusement Stand
Dee works long hours on a seaside platform known as Hell wearing a revealing Satanic costume to lure visitors. Alfa Barker touts her charms while Slick Erieke courts her. Jim the lighthouse keeper vows marriage, but pursuers arrive. The beam fails in a dramatic finale and Dee proves her worth with a heroic act.
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Dee
Alfa Barker
Robert Armstrong
Slick Erieke
Roy D’arcy
Jim
Dean Jagger
Solitude
Stairs of Sand at Rialto Two-Day Run
A Western era adventure based on Zane Grey's Stairs of Sand arrives at Rialto Theatre for two days starting Wednesday. Wallce Beery stars as a sympathetic desert bandit, with Jean Arthur as the searching heroine, and Chester Conklin and Phillips Holmes among the featured cast.
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Rialto Theatre
Wallace Beery
The
Pony Express
Old I Ironsides
Desert
Arizona
Jean Arthur
Fu Manchu
Chester Conklin
Tim
Phillips R. Holmes
Princeton University
Fred Kohler
Guy Oliver
Railroads and Air Travel Speed Up Transatlantic Trips
The American Air Transport association says railroads and airplanes cooperate to speed travel. Trans Atlantic service to the United States is cut from ten to six days. Fixed train and plane schedules minimize time for ocean travelers to reach seaports.
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Chicago
American Air Transport Association
Berlin
United States
First pianos built 3060 years ago
The statement notes that pianos originated around 3060 years in the past, while mentioning the upas tree with its poisonous juice as a separate fact.
Slapstick Comes to Rialto With Beware of Bachelors
Beward of Bachelors at Rialto Theatre features Audrey Ferris and William Collier Jr with Clyde Cook and An dr e Beranger. The plot follows a jealous wife scheming to curb her doctor husband’s flirtations with female patients, delivering spirited attacks of humor from start to finish.
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Warner Bros
Rialto Theatre
Mark Canfield
Robert Lord
Roy del Ruth
Audrey Ferris
William Collier, Jr
Clyde Cook
Andre Beranger
Dave Morris
Utah
Margaret Livingston
The Singing Fool at Ritz This Week
Jolson returns to the Ritz for three days with The Singing Fool a melodrama about a Broadway waiter who loves a beautiful entertainer. The cast includes Betty Bronson Josephine Dunn Reed Howes Edward Martindel Arthur Housman David Lee and Robert Emmett OConnor. The film follows joy and sorrow as the couple marries, she deserts him, and unites again when their son is near death.
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Jolson
Ritz Theatre
Leslie S. Barrows
C. Graham Baker
Lloyd Bacon
Betty Bronson
Josephine Dunn
Reed Howes
Edward Martindel
Arthur Housman
David Lee
Robert Emmett O'Connor
State Takes Road 10 Junior Home State Takes Road 10
The four mile stretch from Lexington to the Junior Order Orphans Home is added to the state highway system. The highway commission announced it will take over the road and rebuild it as a modern highway to serve the orphanage and heavy traffic from southern Davidson County, including fishermen to High Rock Lake.
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Lexington
Junior Order Orphans Home
State Highway Commission
Cox
Highway Commission
Davidson County
High Rock Lake
Cat blamed for village blaze in Bengal cottages
A Bengal village of 400 cottages burned after an old woman tied a lit jute to a cat's tail. The cat leaped onto a thatched roof, igniting the fire and spreading to the other cottages.
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Calcutta
India
Bengal
Kansas City Plans $500000 Air Terminal Expansion
Kansas City will build a new air terminal costing 500000 dollars larger than the 1928 republican convention hall. The 160000 square foot ground floor will house a central inner office building and a 60 by 45 foot canopy for taxiing planes. A passenger station near the terminal will serve waiting and baggage needs.
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Kansas City
Terminal i
Baldness Cure Shocks Barbers With Brief Hair Loss
A touted drug thallion acetate promises a week of complete hair loss after drinking it to be followed by hair regrowth after three additional weeks. The claims spark apprehension among barbers and potential users.
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Paris
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Carl Laemmle
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Jerome Kern
Oscar Hammerstein II
Harry Pollard
Mississippi
Darkies
the Family Theatre
Mary Astor
Roy Darcy
Satan
Mickey McGuire
Mickey
Clara Bow
Orpheum
the Woman From
Jaime del Rio
Matinees
Jules Bledsoe
Ole Man River
Aunt Jemima
Feller
Eona
Ferger
Ito
Laura LA Plant
Show Boat
Coon
Ciara
Stairs OF
Rial
Zane Grey
May McAvoy
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Ritz
C’mon and
Audrey Ferris William Collier
Land of Joy
Iis
Luke
Thur
Hoot Gibson
Rialto News
AL Jolson
West End’s Own
Mack Sennett
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