Special Attracts Show Week At Local Theaters
Al Jolson stars in Big Boy at the American for a four day run beginning tomorrow. The film features actual Kentucky Derby racing scenes shot on the track and uses a real Derby horse. Jolson is a noted racing enthusiast and owner of several racers. The Derby draws about 60,000 yearly and captivates a nation of fans.
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America
A Jolson
American Theatre
Warner Bros
Vitaphone
Jolson
Jolson Shines In Big Boy Film With New Ending
Jolson stars in a Warner Bros. version of the stage hit Big Boy with Claudia Dell Louise Closser Hale and others. Alan Crosland directs and the cast delivers top songs and laughs plus a twist ending. Technicolor subject Contrary Mary and a talking News and Comedy close the two hour program.
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Warner’ Bros
Jolson
Claudia Dell
Louise Closser Hale
Lloyd Hughes
Eddie Phillips
Franklin Batie
John Harron
Alan Crosland
Jazz Singer
Broadbursts Trio of Famous Pictures At The Broadhurst
The Broadhurst screens Ruth Chatterton with Clive Brook in Anybody's Woman Ramon Novarro stars in Call of the Flesh and Metro's Good News will also be shown for two days. Chatterton portrays Pansy Gray with Brook as Neil Dunlap in a drama directed by Dorothy Arzner. a large supporting cast and lavish production accompany Navarro in Call of the Flesh.
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the Broadhurst
Ruth Chatterton
Clive Brook
Ramon Novarro
Metro
Sarah and Son
Paramount
All
Gouverneur Morris
Pansy Gray
Miss Chatterton
America
Neil Dunlap
Huntley Gordon
Tom Patricola
Cecil Cunningham
Juliette Compton
Dorothy Arzner
Ramon Navarro
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dorothy Jordan
Madrid
Navarro
Renee Adaree
Good News and Broadway Stars Shine in Metro Goldwyn Mayer Feature
The review highlights the MGM musical Good News with Bessie Love leading the cast and Gus Shy from the stage version. It notes strong football stadium sequences, lively dancing ensembles, and performances by Ernest Torrence Mathilde Comont and others, praising the film’s warmth and colorful courtship plot.
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Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Bessie Love
Gus Shy
Stanley Smith
Mary Lawlor
Lola Lane
Cliff
Ike) Edwards
Frank McGlynn
Tom Jackson
Dorothy McNulty
Billy Taft
Shooting Straight opens at Paramount with Richard Dix in rugged gambler role
Richard Dix returns to his classic strongman persona in Shooting Straight, a Radio Pictures drama opening tomorrow at the Paramount. The story follows a two fisted city gambler's regeneration alongside a strong romance with Mary Lawlor, supported by Matthew Betz, Robert Emmett O’Connor, George Cooper, and William Janney in a brisk, original tale directed by George Archainbaud.
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Richard Dix
Paramount Theater
Dix
Mary Lawlor
Posite Dix
Barney Sarecky
Talking Picture Entertainment
George Archainbaud
Matthew Betz
Robert Emmett O'Connor
George Cooper
William Janney
Reed family kinship puzzle from marriage to Buchanan
Mrs Laura Reed after marrying James Buchanan discovered surprising in law ties. She became her daughter’s sister in law and an aunt to her grandchildren. The bride’s daughter married John Buchannon, who is the bridegroom’s brother.
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Reedsville
Laura Reed
James Buchanan
John Buchannon
Paramount Plans Football Scenes In The Forward Pass
Director Eddie Cline will teach football basics within thrilling sequences for The Forward Pass at the Paramount Friday and Saturday. Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Lor etta Young star in a First National Vita-Phon production with Jeff Cravath as technical director.
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Eddie Cline
Paramount
First National
Vitaphons
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Loretta Young
Radio Girls at Broadhurst for One Night
The Broadhurst announces the Radiola Girls will perform on Wednesday night as a special added attraction. The duo, two diminutive singers and dancers, recently played in Greensboro and Durham to favorable notices. Their act begins at 9 pm, tied to the showing of Ramon Novarro’s The Call of the Flesh.
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Broadhurst
Greensboro
Durham
Ramon Novarro
Arctic gas stations to fuel Arctic air routes
An oil company announces plans to open filling stations in Baffin Land Greenland Spitzbergen and other icy regions. The stations will store gasoline and lubricants for planes and dirigibles operating on a Europe to United States Arctic route in the near future.
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Arctic Gas Stations
New York
Europe
United States
Baffin Land
Greenland
Spitzbergen
Worn Out T Support Provokes Gallery Chorus
A performer cracks a joke to thin audience laughter and jokes about next year. A voice in the gallery counters that they did laugh last year, not this time.
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Novarro
Renee Adoreer
Call of the Flesh
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Warner Pictures
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Fox
Alice White
Sweet
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Radio Girls
Broadway
Robert Armstrong
James Gleason
Voice OF
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Richard Barthelmess
Constance Bennett
Girl of
the Golden Voice
Bebe Daniels
Ned Sparks
Don Terry
Armida
Marjorie
Babe” Kane
High Point
New York City
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