Ramona in Technicolor Opens at Paramount Today
The film Ramona produced by 20th Century Fox in Technicolor debuts today at the Paramount. Shot on location in Southern California near the Mesa Grande ranches, the production spanned twelve weeks with stars Loretta Young Don Ameche and supporting names Kent Taylor Pauline Frederick Jane Darwell Katherine De Mille Victor Kilian John Carradine.
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Loretta Young
Don Ameche
Kent Taylor
Pauline Frederick
Katherine de Mille
Helen Hunt Jackson
20Th Century-Fox
Paramountatre
Pauline Rederick
Jane Darwell
Victor Kilian
John Carradine
Ramona
San Jacinto Mountain
California
Alessandro
Mesa Grande
Los Angeles
Moreno Hacienda
Paramount Today
Trio of New Songs in Western Film at Broadhurst
Republic presents Comin Round the Mountain starring Gene Autry for a three day run at the Broadhurst Theatre. Autry performs three new songs Chiquita When the Campfire is Low on the Prairie and the title ballad. Smiley Burnette joins in with Don Juan of Seville. Sammy Stept wrote the lyrics and music.
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Gene Autry
Republic
Broadhurst Theatre
Autry
Smiley Burnette
Don Juan
Seville
Sammy Stept
New Republic
Underworld Hero Returns in The Return of Jimmy Valentine
Jimmy Valentine appears in a new film at the Rialto on Thursday only with Roger Pryor delivering a breezy reporter role and Charlotte Henry as Midge Davis guiding the tale. J Carrol Naish stars as Tony Scapelli while Lewis D. Collings keeps action rapid blending melodrama and comedy into an entertaining package.
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Jimmy Valentine
Underworld
Roger Pryor
Charlotte Henry
Davis
Pryor
J. Carrol Naish
Tony Scapelli
Lewis D. Collings
Thirteen Hours By Air Opens At Carolina Theatre
Paramount drama stars Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett in a romance of intrigue and flight. Shot in the sky and at regular transcontinental airports, the film opened Friday for two days with United Air Lines cooperation.
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Paramount
Carolina Theatre
Fred MacMurray
Joan Bennett
United Air Lines
Shirley Temple Stars in Dimples at Paramount
Shirley Temple returns to thrill audiences in Dimples opening Wednesday at the Paramount for four days. Frank Morgan leads an exceptional cast in a tale of a cheerful street minstrel and her guardian with laughter romance and drama.
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Shirley Temple
Dimples
Paramount Theatre
Shirley
Robert Kent
Astrid Allwyn
Delma Byron
Hall Johnson Choir
Stepin Fetchit
Morgan
Stephin Fetchit
Helen Westley
Berton Churchill
Air on the Move Aboard A Trans Continental Flight Drama
A New York to San Francisco transport flight features MacMurray and Howard piloting a cast including socialite Miss Bennett a jewel robbery suspect Bennie Bartlett as a heir and ZaSu Pitts as his governess plus three suspicious male passengers. The voyage yields an attempted killing a crash attempt and other dramatic incidents as the plot untangles to a climactic finish.
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New York- San Francisco
MacMurray
Howard
Miss Bennett
Bennie Bartlett
ZaSu Pitts
Weeknight Theaters Show Multiple Films and Cartoons
Paramount Brings RA MONA SHIRLEY TEMPLE and Mickey Mouse Thrillers. Brighthurst offers DON T TURN EM LOOSE and Mary Boland comedies. Carolina screens SAN FRANCISCO and THIRTEEN HOURS BY AIR. Rialto features FORGOTTEN FACES plus serials and a vaudeville act.
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Pepper Pot
Carolina
Clark Gable
Jeanette MacDonald
Spencer Tracy
San Francisco
Fox Movietone News
Miriam Hopkins
Merle Oberon
Joel McCrea
Madame
Lelia Hyams
Merrie Melody
Johnny Downs
Shirley Deane
Dixie Dunbar
Jimmy Valentine
Roger Pryor
Charlotte Henry
Dick Foran
Wives Never Know at Broadhurst Theatre
A humorous comedy of married life stars Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland at the Broadhurst Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. Adolphe Menjou guides a jealous plot as Ruggles schemes to win forgiveness, leading to a chaotic yet affectionate end. Vivienne Osborne returns to film as the other woman.
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Charles Ruggles
Mary Boland
Broadhurst Theatre
Charlie Ruggles
Adolphe Menjou
Ruggles
Miss Boland
Vivenne Osborne
Miss Osborne
The Big House Shows At Rialto
The Big House a MGM prison drama plays at Rialto Theatre Monday and Tuesday. Chester Morris Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery star as three prisoners with Leila Hyams as a love interest. A thousand men riot sequence and tank quell end the revolt shown in stark realism.
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Rialto Theatre
Chester Morris
Wallace Beery
Robert Montgomery
Morris
Leila Hyams
Beery
Lewis Stone
Karl Dane
George Marion
DeWitt Jennings
Matthew Betz
Claire McDowell
J. C. Nugent
Robert
San Francisco Is Coming Back opens at the Carolina
The Carolina Theatre opens San Francisco Is Coming Back featuring Clark Gable Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. The drama blends romance comedy song and a disaster sequence set in Barbary Coast Nob Hill Tivoli Palace Hotel and a city rebuilt after a massive 1906 quake.
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San Francisco
Carolina Theatre
Clark Gable
Jeanette MacDonald
Spencer Tracy
Barbary Coast
Nob Hill
Tivoli Opera House
Palace Hotel
Blackie Norton
Noel Coward Returns to Broadway Amid Busy Plans
New York reports Noel Coward, the famed playwright and performer, has arrived from London and plans a busy Broadway stay. He remains focused on writing and producing while juggling nine plays in three nights and drafting an autobiography and new operetta. Coward travels by freighter for work and cites boredom as a motive for wandering. He praises Helen Hayes and awaits Gertrude Lawrence to resume their three night show with Miss Lawrence to join him.
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New York
Noel Coward
Broadway
London
Alexander Woollcott
Sutton Place
Coward
Woollcott
Siberia
New Zealand
South Seas
Mr. Coward
Bangkok
South Africa
China
Shanghai
Mothersill’s
Moss Hart
Jamaica
Manhattan
Helen Hayes
Gertrude Lawrence
Wonder Boy
Misa Lawrence
Miss Lawrence
Don't Turn Em Loose at Broadhurst Two Days
A film based on notorious parole failures plays at the Broadhurst Theatre today and tomorrow. Bruce Cabot stars as a hardened criminal who exploits parole to commit a creamery robbery and murder. A silver tongued attorney and a duped family frame the tragedy of crime and broken lives.
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Broadhurst
Broadhurst Theatre
Bruce Cabot
Cabot
Extra Funny Kid Baker Turns Jokes Into Stardom
In London’s Strand an old-timer recalls Jim Corbett in The Naval Cadet and the staged prize fight with hired extras. A kid among them, Phil Baker, amused the crowd with ad lib remarks and now earns far more than the original 26 cent nightly wage for his jokes.
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Dinty Moore
Jim Corbett
Corbett
Phil Baker
Skyscraper camera promises distortion-free aerial views
A special aerial camera dubbed the skyscraper camera has been built to cut distortion from city skylines. The device is reported to be three to four times the length of the standard aerial camera, enabling clearer images of tall buildings and urban skylines.
University of Oklahoma Opens Advanced Flight Courses
After completing a 250 mile per hour wind tunnel, the University of Oklahoma offers new courses in airplane testing and aerodynamics research to expand studies in high speed flight and propulsion.
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University of Oklahoma
Young Apprentice Jane Plant Aims for Transport Pilot Role
Fourteen year old Jane Plant works as an apprentice mechanic at Atlanta airport in Georgia. She has piloted planes since age eleven and aspires to become a transport pilot. The article highlights her early aviation experience and career goals.
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Jane Plant
Atlanta, Ga
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