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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1934
Page
2
Paramount presents Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch starring Pauline Lord and W C Fields with ZaSu Pitts. The film opens at the Paramount and features comedy and touching moments as the Wiggs family goes to the theater and Jimmy dies.
A tense mystery and comedy blend in Death on the Diamond at the Broadhurst theater Monday and Tuesday. The plot follows a killer on a pennant race bound baseball team with the St Louis Cardinals featured in the final act. Robert Young and Madge Evans lead, with Ted Healy and Mickey Rooney providing comic relief.
A 1930s film depiction of teen vagrants, led by packed rail travel and street life, shown at the Rialto on Monday and Tuesday. The piece notes half a million youths roaming freight trains, living under bridges, begging, panhandling, and facing disease and neglect.
Katharine Hepburn stars as Trigger in Spitfire at the Carolina Theatre Monday and Tuesday. The Broadway stage hit Bell as she battles men mobs the Devil and love in a rugged Appalachian setting. Two engineers George Fleetwood and John Stafford vie for her affections while she hides a devout faith and secret healing gift.
The Broadhurst theater launches a midnight stage and screen program at 12:01. The vaudeville segment features the Flashee of Variety revue headed by Jean Oxford with new costumes songs and dances. Shorty Quits Candler returns with fresh comedy. The screen segment showcases 20 Million Sweethearts starring Dick Powell Ginger Rogers and Pat O'Brien.
The program lists Mrs. of the cab Patch with Zasu Pitts and others, Cartoon Popeye, What Every Woman Knows with Helen Hayes, Cabinet Moore Radio Ramblers, Betty Life Guard, Talkartoon, The I Kid with James Cagney, Shes My Lilly, and a Paramount News segment.
A fragment lists titles and names including George Cohan works His Lucky Day Hell's Fire and Willie Whopper with a Metro News note to a musical comedy set. It references Red Rider Serial No 1 and a few stage links. The wording is incomplete but signals a media page listing titles and performers.
The Rialto announces a two day run Monday and Tuesday with Wild Boys of the Road featuring Jimmy Darrow and Dark Africa. Wednesday and Thursday present Derby Decade starring Ruth Etting along with Crime Withees Pentons featuring Claude Rains and a lineup including Horsepower and Hello Sailor.
Monday and Tuesday Katherine Hepburn stars with Robert Young and Ralph in Comedy Musical Novelty. Wednesday offers an Action and Air thriller with Ray Walker plus Musical Comedy and Oddity. Thursday features James Edna May Oliver in Murder the Blackboard plus Comedy and Carolina News Events rated by Lowell Thomas. Friday and Saturday present Captain and I in Fighting To Live with The Phantom of the West second chapter and a Cartoon.
George M. Cohan headlines the screen version of Gambling at the Broadhurst theater. Wynne Gibson co stars as the female lead. Cohan plays a New York gambler who becomes a detective after his daughter is murdered and the lover acquitted.
The Paramount hosts the musical comedy Stepping Along with a feature film The St Louis Kid starring James Cagney for a two day engagement. The show features 25 young artists, singing and dancing acts, and a new song My Little Girl by Cohan. Cagney stars in a riotously funny role as a red headed Irish driver with frequent misadventures. The program runs Friday and Saturday with multiple performances.
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