Will Rogers Cimarron Opens April Movie Festival at Paramount
Edna Ferber's Cimarron is shown at the Paramount theater Thursday through Saturday. The dramatic tale follows Yancey Cravat and his wife from Oklahoma frontier days to modern times, featuring Richard Dix Irene Dunne and a strong supporting cast under Wesley Ruggles direction.
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Edna Ferber
Paramount Theater
Oklahoma Frontier
Cimarron
Richard Dix
Yancey Cravat
Dix
Irene Dunne
Rango: A Uniquely Blended Tale of Ape and Man in Sumatra
The film Rango by Ernest Schoedsack blends the lives of an orangutan called Rango and a native Sumatra man with their sons. It contrasts ape and human struggles against jungle threats like the tiger, presenting a daring, authentic screen drama praised for courage and innovation.
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Schoedsack
Sumatra
Rango
Ernest Schoedsack
Rogue of the Rio Grande at Rialto
Myrna Loy Jose Bohr and Raymond Hatton head the cast in Rogue of the Rio Grande a Cliff Broughton production at the Rialto theater Friday and Saturday. The narrative blends love bandits adventure and chivalry with Loy singing and dancing adding a highlight to the talkie Bohr plays El Malo with assurance and Hatton supplies much comedy as Pedro the bandit’s ally.
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Myrna Loy
Jose Bohr
Raymond Hatton
Cliff Broughton
Rialto Theater
el Malo
Pedro
Will Rogers Stars in Connecticut Yankee at Paramount
Paramount opens a three day engagement featuring Will Rogers in a humorous six century spoof of Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Rogers as Sir Ross battles knights and jests with Morgan le Fay while William Farnum stars as King Arthur alongside Maureen O'Sullivan Frank Albertson Myrna Loy and Brandon Hurst in the strong supporting cast.
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Will Rogers
King Arthur
Mark Twain
Paramount
Arthur
Sir Ross
Knights of the Round Table
Fox Movietone
Will
Morgan le Fay
Connecticut Yankees
Knights In Armor
William Farnum
Maureen O'Sullivan
Frank Albertson
Myrna Loy
Brandon Hurst
Maureen O’sullivan
Frank Alber Myrna
Tiny the setter bears world record with 16 puppies
In Columbus Ohio Irish setter Tiny, owned by W A Day, reportedly set a world record by giving birth to 16 puppies. All the pups died, but the claim may still stand as the registered dog’s record.
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Columbus
Tiny
W. A. Day
Spring Green Your Pet Cat Diet Cues For Spring
Pet care advice suggests adding greens like lettuce to a cat diet during spring, even for indoor cats. Recommendation notes mixing lettuce with salmon and liver to tempt appetite and provide fiber.
English Made Official Language of Philippine Courts
A new law declares English the official language for all Philippine courts and court records, standardizing proceedings and documentation across the judiciary. The measure affects filings, hearings, and archives nationwide, aligning legal practice with current administrative norms.
Theaters This Week Schedule Details
This week at Paramount and Fox venues lists Will Rogers in A Connecticut Yankee and Dev ill Sea the Paramount act schedule. Cimarron with Richard Dix and Krazy Kat Cartoon headline Thursday through Saturday with The Band Master sound news. Early week features It Pays To Advertise with Norman Foster and Gene Lette plus Extravagance with June Col l yer and Lloyd Hughes. Moonlight and Romance appears with Fox tone news. Friday and Saturday offer Bongo and Up with Finger Prints serial.
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Will Rogers
Paramount
Norman Foster
Gallagher
Gene Lette
June Collyer
Lloyd Hughes
Fox Movietone News
Paramount Comedy
Week's Booked Screen Lineup Announces New Schedule
Monday and Tuesday feature Reginald Denny in Em barrassing Moments Universal Champion. Paramount presents It Might Be Worse. Wednesday and Thursday show Eddie Cantor in Whoopee and Screen Snapshot No. 19. Friday and Saturday present Rogue of the Rio Grande Radiators e Lone Defender serial No. 6.
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Reginald Denny
Universal Champion
Paramount
Eddie Cantor
The
Rio Grande
Lone Defender
Week Schedule Promises Vaudeville and Talkie Pairings
Monday shows Patsy Ruth Miller and Bert Lytell in Last of the Lone Wolf a comedy and Vitaphone act. Tuesday and Wednesday feature Al Jolson in Big Boy a comedy and act. Thursday and Friday present King Vidor's talkie Billy the Kid with Johnny Macken Wallace Beery and Kay Johnson. Saturday only offers Wally Wales and Jack Perrin in Trails of Danger Felix Carton comedy.
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Patsy Ruth Miller
Bert Lytell
al Jolson
It Pays to Advertise at the Broadhurst in Talkie Version
The Broadhurst Theater will stage It Pays to Advertise in its talkie form on Monday and Tuesday, boasting a stellar cast including Skeets Gallagher, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield, Norman Forest, Carole Lombard, and others. The adaptation is praised as more entertaining as a talkie than as a stage comedy, with top acting and directing talent supporting the romantic antics and witty plot.
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Ring
Skeets Gallagher
Norman Foster
Carole Lombard
Broadhurst Theater
Broadway
Paramount Pictures
Eugene Pallette
Lucien Littlefield
Norman Forest
Manhattan
Clara Bow
Rango Film Brings Jungle Survival Drama to Broadhurst
A Paramount drama by Ernest Schoedsack arrives at the Broadhurst Theatre with Friday and Saturday showings. The picture portrays a tense life and death struggle between man and ape in the Sumatra jungle, following the director’s earlier works Chang and Grass.
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Sumatra
Broadhurst
Paramount
Ernest Schoedsack
Copper plates could crown Arizona as copper state symbol
Arizona may lead the nation in the quality of its automobile license plates by adopting copper plates, a movement argues reflects Arizona's copper production. The effort envisions plates that highlight the state’s mining identity and aims to improve durability and distinctiveness next year.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Eddie Cantor in Whoopee at Rialto Theater
Eddie Cantor stars in the Samuel Goldwyn Ziegfeld musical riot Whoopee at the Rialto on Wednesday and Thursday. The film adapts the stage hit with romance and pursuit as Sally Morgan flees an arranged marriage with help from an imagined invalid, amid pursuit by the Sheriff and Sally’s father.
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Rialto Theater
Eddie Cantor
Ito
Kings of
United States
Sally Morgan
Eleanor Hunt
Vanenis
Paul Gregory
John Rutherford
Wanenis
Sally
Henry Williams
Adie Cantor
Reginald Denny to Star in Embarrassing Moments at Rialto
Reginald Denny headlines the latest comedy at the Rialto in Embarrassing Moments a talking picture with rapid fire dialogue. Merna Kennedy supports as the heroine of Broadway and the plot centers on a village girl who fakes a trial marriage prompting a comic clash with a real suitor named Thaddeus Cruickshank.
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Reginald Denny
Rialto Theater
Denny
Merna Kennedy
Thaddeus Cruickshank
New York
Cruickshank
Captain Cook Linked to Venus Transit Observation
Captain Cook, famed for Britain's flag in Australia, was commissioned by the Royal Astronomical Society to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from a southern vantage.
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Captain Cook
Australia
British
Royal Astronomical Society
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