Vitaphone Color Spectacle At Apollo Shines In Color
Warner Bros premieres a 100 percent natural color Vitaphone musical at the Apollo titled On With the Show. It features Sally O’Neil Betty Compson and a starry cast with lavish settings and backstage drama.
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Ethel Waters
Fairbanks Twins
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Warner Bros
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Hollywood
Vonda Warner
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Warners
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William Bakewell
Louise Fazenda
Sam Hardy
Joe E. Brown
Lee Moran
Harry Gribbon
Wheeler Oakman
Humphrey Pearson
Robert Lord
Akst
Grant Clarke
Larry Ceballos
Alan Crosland
Universal to Adapt All Quiet on the Western Front for Film
Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. Maxwell Anderson will adapt the German novel for a major sound film with dialogue. Anderson travels to Universal City to begin work with production teams on the project.
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Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Europe
America
Universal Pictures Corporation
Carl Laemmle
Presi
Snowball the Boy Dancer Joins Paul Whiteman Band Rise
Snowball, a former Columbus boot black nicknamed Snowball, wowed a vaudeville theater manager with rapid footwork and declared dancing prowess. He then joined the Paul Whiteman band on stage, launching his dancing career.
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Darky
Ruth Mix
Columbus, O
Paul Whiteman
Tay Garnett Co directs Oh Yeah dialogue with Gleason
Tay Garnett, noted as a young successful director and screenwriter, collaborated with James Gleason on the dialogue for the Pathe all-dialogue feature Oh Yeah! starring Robert Armstrong and James Gleason.
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Tay Garnett
Pathe
Robert Armstrong
James Gleason
Hollywood
Richman Arrives on the Coast to Launch First Film
Hollywood hosts a major launch as Harry Richman arrives to begin work on his all-singing all-talking debut for United Artists with Irving Berlin writing the story and eight songs. Richman, famed stage and nightclub star, gained fame via records and radio.
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New York
Hollywood
United Artists
Irving Berlin
Broadway
Richman
George White
Otto Kahn
Clro Club
Roger Wolfe
le Perroquet
Muddy Waters
Nancy Carroll Begins Work On Sweetie At Paramount
Busy Redhead Nancy Carroll starts her first featured vehicle Sweetie at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. The original musical romance by George Marion Jr. follows a New York chorus girl who inherits a boys college in Connecticut. Lloyd Corrigan wrote the screenplay.
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William H. Seeman
New York
Lon Chaney
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Palace Theater
Chaney
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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George Duryea
Frances Morris
Wally Albright Jr
William Nigh
Byron Morgan
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hrady
Metro Movietone
Billy Jones
Ernie Hare
William O'Neal
M. G. M. International Newsreel
Lester Huff
Fox Movietone News
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Gurgles Delays Tiffany Stahl Film Whispering Winds
Norman Hopps a year and a half old baby boy who acts in the Tiffany Stahl production Whispering Winds caused a delay as a company of more than forty waited while John M. Stahl directed the talking sequences. The child slept then woke causing a tearful scene enhancing the atmosphere as Malcolm McGregor and Patsy Ruth Miller delivered their dialogue.
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Tiffany-Stahl
John M. Stahl
Malcolm McGregor
Patsy Ruth Miller
Malcolm
Kay Francis Assigned to Plays in Edith Wharton Drama
Paramount today assigned Kay Francis to a principal role in the talking picture of Edith Wharton s The Children. The brunette star had earlier competed with Clara Bow for Richard Arlen in Dangerous Curves.
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New
Ohio
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Richard Arlen
Arlen
Kay Francis
Miss Francis
David Newell
T. Roy Barnes
Joyce Compton
Jack Luden
Kat Francis
the Ohio
Marx Brothers
Paramount
Edith Wharton
Rosemont Revue Presented by Rosemont Company
The Rosemont Rollickers featuring Bernard Gorcey and Ed West join Arline Melburn Harry Elsworth and the Rose Buds in a sparkling musical comedy revue. Radio-Keith-Orpheum presents the new offering, written and staged by Walter L. Rosemont.
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Rosemont Rollickers
Bernard Gorcey
Ed West
Arline Melburn
Harry Elsworth
Rose Buds
Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Walter L. Rosemont
Gladys Hart Stars in George Le Maire Comedy
Gladys Hart of the Hart and Coleman vaudeville team headlines George Le Maire's latest comedy hit Bar bers College as the leading lady. The show features the famed duo in a stage farce presented to local audiences.
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Gladys Hart
Hart and Coleman
George le Maire
Barbers
Patent Leather Kid Thrills Riverside Park in Aerial Show
Claude Shafer known as the Patent Leather Kid will headline a Sunday aerial drama at Riverside amusement park. He will ascend in the Riverside balloon and perform a parachute return, shifting gear in midair in the act titled Shaking Dice With Death. The midwest attraction has drawn a large following this summer.
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Shafer
Our Gang Kids to Be Here Soon on Lyric Stage
The Our Gang Kids Mary Kornman Johnny Downs and Scooter Lowry will perform In and Out of the Movies a vaudeville act with a movie lot opening and a Merry Widow Waltz number. Downs sings and dances while Lowry displays tap prowess and comedy.
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Herman Timberg
Our Gang
Mary Kornman
Johnny Downs
Little Scooter Lowry
Walta
Mary
Gleason Goes Hollywood with Pool and Insurance Policy
James Gleason now stars with Robert Armstrong in Pathe’s Oh Yeah and has installed a swimming pool at his home. He has taken out a $50,000 accident insurance policy to cover swimmers against accidents and water splashes on ladies finery.
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James Gleason
Robert Armstrong
New Pathe
Hollywood
Ben Turpin Joins Lubitsch The Love Parade Cast
Paramount announces Ben Turpin will play a cross eyed lackey in Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade. Lupino Lane has supplied comedy earlier in production, with Maurice Chevalier leading the cast of the romantic musical operetta.
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Ben Turpin
Ernst Lubitsch
Paramount
Turpin
Lupino Lane
Maurice Chevalier
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