DeMilles Sign Of The Cross Opens At Paramount
Cecil DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross opens a four day engagement at the Paramount Monday. The Rome pageant shows Nero era decadence and early Christian martyrdom with lavish crowds and spectacular sets led by Charles Laughton Claudette Colbert Elissa Landi and Fredric March in a festival of blood passion and pageantry.
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DeMille
Paramount
Cecil DeMille
Rome
Nero
Mercia
Circus Maximus
Charles Laughton
Poppaea
Claudette Colbert
Elissa Landi
Christian
Merela
Fredric March
Theatres Next Week at Paramount Bradhurst and Rialto
Paramount shows The Sign of the Cross with March Colbert and Landi and Lucky Devils plus Hollywood on Parade and Rioska In Person. Bradhurst presents Prom Hell To Heaven with Lombard Oakie Taxi for Two and Smoke Lightning with O Brien O Day. Rialto screens Tiger Shark with Edward G Robinson Three on a Match with Blondell Dvorak Davis and The Dentist. Variety Revue of 1933 and a serial Scarlet River round out the week.
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Paramount
Fredric March
Claudette Colbert
Elissa Landi
Paramount News
Bill Boyd
Dorothy Wilson
Hollywood
Rioska
Cartoon
Broadhurst
Carole Lombard
Jack Oakie
Metrotone News
Geo
O’brien
Nell O'Day
Africa
Moran and
Mack
van Dyne
Rialto
Edw. G. Robinson
Betty Boop
Fou News
Joan Blondel
Ann Dvorak
Bette Davis
Paramount Pictorial
Tom Keene
Clancy
the Mounted
Johnsons Plan Abyssinia Expedition For Jungle Photographs
Nairobi reports Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson pioneers of jungle exploration are finishing plans for a southern Abyssinia trek to capture yellow jungle life with their expedition gear.
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Nairobi
Africa
Martin Johnson
Abyssinia
Mills to Be Sold at Auction in Iredell County
A receiver has been appointed for the Cascade mills in Iredell county and the mills will be sold at auction on March 30. The event will be conducted under the authority of the court.
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Statesville
Cascade
Iredell County
Smokening Western Screened at Broadhurst Theatre
George O'Brien stars in Smokening adapted from Canyon Walls as a roving cowpuncher and his pal protect a wealthy orphan girl. The film features gunfights jail breaks a racing train duel and standout riding with Nell O'Day Betsy Ross King and Frank Atkinson in the western romance at the Broadhurst Thursday to Saturday.
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George O'Brien
West
Thur
Broadhurst Theater
Zane Grey
O’brien
Nell O'Day
Betsy Ross King
Frank Atkinson
Paramount Stage and Screen Show at Local Theatre
The Paramount presents a two day program with the Big Top Circus Unit a 12 act vaudeville stage lineup featuring Pat Mufford and The Merrills plus aerialists and performing dogs. The screen feature is the romance Lucky Devils starring Bill Boyd Dorothy Wilson and Roscoe Ates. No advance ticket prices. Family friendly entertainment.
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Paramount Theater
Keith
Pat Mufford
Merrills
Madame Carilles
Drake
Hollywood
Lucky Devils
Bill Boyd
Dorothy Wilon
Roscoe Ates
The Big Drive war films previewed by Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell reviews the authentic war pictures The Big Drive calling them thrilling and tragic. He notes a priest moving through a bullet storm to aid the wounded and bless the dying, wondering who the unidentified Catholic priest is.
National Exchange Bank of Chester Closes Doors
The National Exchange Bank of Chester shut its doors today with a notice posted stating closed until further orders from the comptroller of the currency in Washington. The bank lists capital of $100,000.
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Chester
8. C
National Exchange Bank of Chester
Comptroller of the Currency
Washington, D. C
Thomas speech supports six billion federal bond for public works
Norman Thomas, Socialist presidential candidate in 1932, spoke in Chapel Hill last night urging a six billion dollar federal bond issue to fund public works and the socialization of industries.
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Chapel Hill
Norman Thomas
The Big Drive war picture at Broadhurst theater
The Broadhurst announces The Big Drive a full war chronicle from 1914 to 1918 compiled from official film records. It shows Belgian invasion Ypres Marne Somme Verdun Chateau Thierry and war’s human cost including refugees and casualties with armistice and postwar reflections.
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Broadhurst
Hollywood
Belgium
Ypres
Marne
Somme
Verdun
Chateau Thierry
St. Michiel
Tusitania
Wilson
Germany
von Richthofen
London
From Hell To Heaven heads to Broadhurst for Derby week
The drama set in a southern racing town follows 11 people on hand for the Derby, including a broker who embezzled funds, a jailed crook seeking revenge, a horseman returning to raise money, and a hotel clerk chasing a fortune. Each bets on a different horse as ten lives unravel during the race.
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Broadhurst Theater
Carole Lombard
Jack Oakie
David Manners
Adrienne Ames
Sydney Blackmer
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Joan Blondell
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George An
Edward G
Cecil B. Demille
Sign OF the Cross
Hell
Adrienne Ames Broadhurst
Broadway
Candler
C. Bank
Thomas
Heaven
Lagat
Ecstacy
Sidney Blackmer
Thaurs
Geo. O'Brien
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