Romantic Drama Star Ramon Novarro Leads Daybreak at Paramount
Screen trends point to dramatic romance as Ramon Novarro headlines Daybreak at Paramount this Monday and Tuesday. The film, directed by Jacques Feyder, follows Lt Willi Kasda whose love life tests his duty as an impecunious officer seeking a wealthy match amid wartime obstacles, with Helen Chandler co starring and a cast including Aubrey Smith and Karen Morley.
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Arthur Schnitzier
Vienna
Jacques Feyder
Paris
Willi Kasda
Laura
Novellu
Navarro
Helen Chandler
Jean Hereholt
Aubrey Smith
William Bakewell
Karen Morley
Kent Douglass
Glenn Tryon
Ramon Novarro
Paramount
Texans may fish in own ponds anytime court rules
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upholds a test case brought by the state game fish and oyster commission, declaring Texans have the right to fish in their own ponds regardless of any state body closed seasons.
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Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
State Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Education drive in Ja pan shifts work hours toward learning
The text notes a strong desire for education in Japan with emphasis on learning English speech and writing as a prominent pastime for workers during their limited leisure time.
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Japan
Dual roles for Warner Bros film version of Captain Applejack
Walter Hackett’s Captain Applejack adaptation presents John Halliday as Ambrose Applejohn who dreams himself a pirate Captain Applejack. His household becomes a buccaneer crew with maid Mary Brian as a cabin boy and aunt Louise Closser Hale as an old hag walking the plank.
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Warner Brothers
Walter Hackett
Captain Applejack
Beeause
John Halliday
Ambrose Applejohn
Captain Kidd
Henry Morgan
Buccaneer
Mary Brian
Louise Closser Hale
Kay Strozzi
Alec
Francis
Warner Bros
Rialto Theater
Man of the World stars Powell in suave crime drama
William Powell plays a debonair blackmailer in Paris who targets wealthy Americans. He falls for Carole Lombard while scheming with Wynne Gibson, confesses to Lombard, but continues the game to an unusual climactic ending at the Broadhurst Theater.
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William Powell
Paramount
Powell
Paris
Carole Lombard
Wynne Gibson
New York
Carole
Wynne
Broadhurst Theater
Carol Lombard
Broadhurst Theatre
Global Contract Awarded for 11 660 Foot Zambezi Bridge
A contract has been awarded for an 11 660 foot bridge across the Zambezi River in Africa. It will become the second longest of its kind in the world.
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Zambezi River
Africa
Merchants Offer Free Tickets for Fayssoux Hypnotist Show
Merchants and firms in High Point, aided by the American Legion, distribute with each purchase a special ticket worth money for the upcoming performances by Fayssoux the hypnotist. The shows run nightly at 8 30 in a large tent theater on North Wrenn Street between Ray and Howell with a sensational blindfold automobile drive to open the week.
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Fayssoux
High Point
American Legion
Wrenn Street
Ray
Howell
Ame Drew Jackson Post
Coffield Furniture Co
The Ridin Fool coming to Broadhurst Theater this weekend
Wellyn Totman’s western story titled The Ridin Fool inspired by a ranch moment earns McCarthy’s blessing and stars Bob Steele in a Tiffany production at the Broadhurst Theater for Friday and Saturday showings.
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Broadhurst
Wellyn Totman
J. P. McCarthy
McCarthy
Totman
Bob Steele
Tiffany
Broadhurst Theater
Tallulah Bankhead Set For High Point Visit
American film sensation Tallulah Bankhead, famed as London’s “symbol of her sex,” arrives in High Point next Monday for her first film The Tarnished Lady. The star, daughter of an Alabama congressman and niece of a U S Senator, is touted as a top new figure. Paramount lists her in a second picture alongside Wallace Beery in The Secret Six and Wheeler and Woolsey in Cracked Nuts.
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Tallulah Bankhead
London
Alabama
U. S
Paramount
Wallace Beery
Butch
Wheeler and Woolsey
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Theaters This Week at Paramount Theater
Monday and Tuesday feature Ramon Novarro in Daybreak plus Lets Play with Slim Summerville Wives with Joan Bennett Charlie Chase in Looser than Loose Friday and Saturday present Richard Barthelmess in Finger Points The Male Man Paramount Talkertoon Vitaphone Act Good Pie Forever with Paramount Sound News
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Paramount Theater
Ramon Novarro
Slim Summerville
Joan Bennett
Charlie Chase
Paramount Pictorial
Richard Bartheimess
Paramount Talkertoon
Paramount Sound News
William Powell in Man of the World at Broadhurst Theatre
Broadhurst Theatre lists a week program with William Powell in Man of the World Monday and Tuesday. Also shows Ranch House Rhythm Pathe Novelty Vita phone Pathe Sound News and high. Wednesday and Thursday features Ben Lyon in My Past with Bebe Daniels College Hounds Fox Movietone News. Friday and Saturday presents Bob Steele in Ridin Fool Hero of the Flame Serial No 2 Expensive Kisses Educational comedy.
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Broadhurst Theatre
William Powell
Pathe Novelty
Pathe Sound News
Ben Lyon
Bebe Daniels
College Hounds
Fox Movietone News
Bob Steele
Rialto Theatre Week Preview of Films and Acts
Monday and Tuesday present Mary Brian in Captain Applejack and Polly Moran with Marie Dressler in Dangerous Females. Robi Holmes stars in Man to Man and educational comedy My Hare m. Include Pathé Audio Review No. 8 and Screen Snapshot No. 26. Saturday features Lightnin’ Flyer Western, ventriloquist Office Scandal, Lone Defender No. 12 final episode.
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Rialto Theatre
Mary Brian
Polly Moran
Marie Dressler
Pathe
Robi. Holmes
Lightnin’ Flyer
Broadway Theatres Week at a Glance with Stars
Monday features Spencer Tracy and Claire Lace in Up the River with a Vitaphone cartoon. Tuesday and Wednesday present Joan Crawford Robert Armstrong and Marie Prevost in Paid plus Mack Sennett Comedy and Screen Song. Thursday shows Genevieve To bin Conrad Nagel Slim Summerville in Free Love Charlotte Greenwood in Girls Will Be Boys and a Vitaphone Act. Friday and Saturday star Bill Boyd William Farnum and Helen Twelvetrees in The Painted Desert with Ranch House Blues comedy.
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Spencer Tracy
Claire Lace
Joan Crawford
Robert Armstrong
Marie Prevost
Mack Sennett
Genevieve Tobin
Conrad Nagel
Slim Summerville
Charlotte Greenwood
Bill Boyd
William Farnum
Helen Twelvetrees
Painted Desert
The Lightning Flyer at Rialto highlights a pivotal female push
In Columbia Pictures drama The Lightning Flyer the railroad president's son faces a test when his father offers him a chance to prove himself. A yardmaster's daughter persuades her father to hire him and guides his effort to succeed with cast led by James Hall and Dorothy Sebastian.
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Columbia Pictures
Rialto Theater
James Hall
Dorothy Sebastian
Ben Lyon Film Features Catch Glowing Fortunes
Dwight Frye stars in Man to Man at the Rialto in a Warner Bros Vitaphone version of a Ben Ames Williams story. Frye rose from stage to Broadway success in The Plot Thickens and other plays before entering Hollywood with A Man's Man and Rope's End. Warner Bros cast Frye and Neal Madison for The Doorway to Hell and the leading Man to Man role directed by Allan Dwan.
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Dwight Frye
Warner Bros
Vitaphone
Ben Ames Williams
Rialto Theater
Mart
Rew Stock Company
Denver
Colorado
Spokane
Washington
Frye
Rita Coventry
Queenie Smith
Hollywood
Vine Street
Figueroa Playhouse
Neal Madison
Ropp
Allan Dwan
Bebe Daniels Stars in My Past at Broadhurst This Week
The Broadhurst Theater announces Wednesday opening for Warner Bros Vivathone screen version of the sensational My Past. Bebe Daniels portrays Doree torn between two suitors while Ben Lyon Lewis Stone Natalie Moorehead Joan Blondell and Albert Grant support the ensemble. Roy Del Ruth directs the adaptation with Kenyon providing dialogue across settings from an American city to a yacht voyage and the Italian Riviera.
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Broadhurst
Warner Bros
Vitaphone
Bebe Daniels
Doree
Ben Lyon
Niels
Lewis Stone
Natalie Moorehead
Joan Blondell
Albert Grant
Virginia Sale
Chieo
Daisy Belmont
High Seas
Riviera
Charles Kenyon
Roy del Ruth
Women pilots drive up to four hundred in U S first quarter
At the end of the first quarter of 1931 the aeronautics branch of the Commerce Department reports 419 women airplane pilots in the United States. Five women mechanics are included among these pilots.
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Washington
United States
Aeronautics
U. 8&8
Department of Commerce
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