Parachute Derby at Riverside Pits Two Women in Aerial Race
Two women, Ethel Pritchett and Lorel Starkey, will stage a parachute derby at Riverside amusement park. The event opens with a bomb burst and features multiple chute openings as they tumble toward Indianapolis. Pritchett, a world champion, is favored to win.
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Big Cast for Doug Big Cast for Doug
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks assemble a star studded company for a Shakespeare project. Geoffrey Wardwell plays Hortensio and Edwin Maxwell is Baptista. Dorothy Jordan Bianca Joseph Cawthorne Gremio Clyde Cook also featured. Molly Picon joins from vaudeville with a New York Second Avenue Yiddish theater background. Rehearsals underway. film due before September first.
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May Be True Carol Lombard Fashion in Businesswear
Carol Lombard argues that business attire among women tends to overdress with flashy gowns and heavy jewelry. In the film Big News she wears a navy blue two piece crepe suit with a white blouse gloves plain hat patent leather shoes and minimal jewelry designed by Gwen Wakeling at Pathe studio.
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Velvet Revue to Play 27 Theaters in 24 Cities
A new miniature musical comedy titled The Velvet Revue will be booked in 27 Publix Paramount Loew s and Stanley theaters across 24 cities including New York Boston New Haven and Philadelphia. Sidney Blumenthal & Co. announce a nine hundred performance run with an estimated 3 500 000 audiences. Openings begin August 1 in New Haven and Boston with a New York debut August 17 at the Paramount. Subsequent showings follow in Brooklyn Jersey City Newark and more before traveling west and south to major markets.
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Kleeman Sister Returns From New York Visit
Paul H. Kleeman a Broadway operatic baritone from this city heads the cast of The New Moon. His sister Miss Clara Kleeman also from this city has returned from a New York visit with the singer.
Three more join cast of The Love Parade musical
Ernst Lavitsch engages Yola D Avril Andre Cheron and Charles Sellon for principal roles in Paramounts Love Parade Maurice Chevalier stars with Jeanette MacDonald Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth in lead parts Additional cast includes Eugene Pallette B Heggie Albert Boccardi Golden Wadams Carlton Stockdale Lionel Belmore Edgar Norton Russell Powell and others
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Andre Cheron
Charles Sellon
Maurice Chevalier
Paris
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Lillian Roth
Earl Carroll
Pleasure Bound leads in Chicago as top revue
In Chicago the Shubert Grand hosts Pleasure Bound with Phil Baker Jack Pearl Shaw and Lee and Aileen Stanley delivering a smart revue in its seventh week. The show gains strong audience demand and Baker’s skits plus the Donahue Boyle dancing unit draw praise.
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The Racketeer stars Lombard against Armstrong in Pathe film
On the Way Carol Lombard will play opposite Robert Armstrong in The Racketeer a Pathe picture soon to be produced directed by Howard Higgin with Ralph Block supervising The scenario by Paul Gangelin and dialogue by A A Kline In production are Oh Yeah and Her Private Affairs with Ann Harding and Robert Armstrong plus The Awful Truth and The Sophomore with Alan Hale Eddie Quillain Sally ONeil Jeanette Loff and Big News a newspaper story Also in preparation Rich People Constance Bennett first dialogue picture and Red Hot Rhythm
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Robert Armstrong
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Ralph Block
Paul Gangelin
A. A. Kline
James Gleason
Ann Harding
Alan Hale
Ian Claire
Eddie Quillain
Sally O'Neil
Jeanette Loff
Constance Bennett
Twins Impress in Seashore Follies at Indiana Theater
The Darling Twins charm audiences in the new Charles Davis stage show Seashore Follies at the Indiana theater, living up to their billing as two engaging young performers.
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Malcolm McGregor En Route for European Vacation
Malcolm McGregor who stars in Whispering Winds is traveling to Europe for an extended holiday in New York he awaits possible English film offer during his stay abroad.
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Doris Hill Cast in The Children Film with Fredric March
Paramount started casting Edith Wharton’s The Children as a talking picture. Doris Hill is chosen for Judith Wither and Fredric March for Martin Boyne. Lothar Mendes helms, following his work on Dangerous Curves.
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Fine Music Sets New York Exchange for 1929 30 Short Subjects
ITZPATRICK PICTURES INC opens its New York Exchange at 729 Seventh Avenue to handle national sales and distribution of four 1929 1930 short subject series. Travel talks feature James A. Fitzpatrick with Rosario Bourdon conducting the Traveltalk Orchestra. other series include Twelve Movie Horoscopes and Twelve American Holidays plus Twelve Music Masters.
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RKO Expands Vaudeville Reach with Canadian Moves
Vaudeville circles discuss Radio-Keith-Orpheum announcements of growth and new acquisitions. RKO took over F. F. Proctor’s theaters on Aug 1 and now broadens Canadian activities from St Johns to Vancouver, signaling intensified efforts to boost vaudeville prosperity.
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Endurance Skate Contest At Broad Ripple Park
Skaters in an endurance skating contest at Broad Ripple park rink have logged 168 hours over a week since July 26, covering about 504 miles. Medical staff and special diets support contestants as heat takes its toll amid a busy park schedule with diving exhibitions and picnics throughout the week.
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Dynamic Russian stars to headline Boston bill next week
The dynamic Russian star Bada nova and her husband Nicholas Soussanin, both stage and screen celebrities, will headline on the Keith bill in Boston next week. The couple will travel from Boston to Hollywood immediately after.
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