Paramount Week Promises Star Packed Film Season
Paramount week will bring major releases to Indianapolis theaters during September led by The Ten Commandments and The Covered Wagon. D W Griffith, Harold Lloyd, and Douglas MacLean join a parade of titles including The Pony Express and The Vanishing American with Meighan. In Dublin, Thomas Meighan films The Shamrock amid large crowds and official welcome while Lois Wilson joins the cast.
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Projection machines come to homes, predicts film chief
John McCormick, West Coast production chief of First National, foresees a future where every home has a projecting machine. He envisions daily film of events and stories told pictorially becoming part of the day’s routine.
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Thurston Accepts Universal Phantom Challenge
Thurston the magician has accepted Universal Pictures Corporation’s test to produce a phantom during the prologue of The Phantom of the Opera opening at the Astor Theater on Sept 7. Universal will pay one thousand dollars to anyone who succeeds, after a national effort involving famed scientists and noted mediums.
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American Society For Psychic Research
Irving Cummings to Direct Corinne Griffith in Caesar's Wife
Irving Cummings will handle the megaphone on Corinne Griffith's next First National starring vehicle a screen version of W S Maughams Caesar's Wife His most recent directorial achievement was Colleen Moores The Desert Flower
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Revue Act Tops Lyric and AdlVDville Bills
A gay colorful Lyric Revue Act led by Nellie Fernandez and Raphael Diaz headlines next week with Mexico’s premier dancers and a cast of singers musicians and novelty acts. The bill features Cross Words Rita Tonielli Manns Syncopators Jacek and Harry Tower Ates and Darling Three Silvers and Mack Sennett comedy on screen plus several film features at the Palace Circle Isis Apollo and Colonial theaters.
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Shriners Plan Broad Ripple Picnic And Midsummer Frolic
Shriners and families will take possession of Broad Ripple Park Monday for the annual Shrine picnic led by Murat Temple official Charles J. Orbison. The event kicks off the Shrine midsummer frolic week with open public performances and a Monday admission by Shrine membership card.
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Miracle in Salzburg to be retooled for New York run
Max Reinhardt has added embellishments to The Miracle after Salzburg performances. Morris Gest will bring the enhanced production to America with a New York opening Sept 28. Mechanics will transform Music Hall into a medieval cathedral for the three week engagement.
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Shrine Picnic Week Opens With Duttons and Various Acts
In the afternoon and evening program the Duttons and many aerial and acrobatic acts headline a Shrine picnic. Free lemonade and coffee are provided by the Shrine. picnickers use the self-serve layout. Beginning Tuesday the remainder of the week the Shriners invite the general public to attend each session.
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Great Comedy at English’s The Nervous Wreck
The Barikell Players present The Nervous Wreck at English’s next week. Henry Williams ailing hero leads a comic spree with a private medicine case and a sham calm yielding to wild escapades including a holdup and a chase. Owen Days and Sally Morgan figures drive the farce with Elliott and Eyre in leading roles.
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Roberts McLean to Star in Paramount's Send Keys to Bald Pat
Edith Roberts will lead opposite Douglas McLean in Paramount's first release of the George M. Cohan success Send Keys to Bald pate. The article notes the pairing as a key early star showcase for the studio.
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Iris Gray Attinds joins Paramount Picture School
Iris Gray Attinds becomes the tenth girl enrolled as a pupil at the Paramount Picture School. She hails from Kansas City Missouri where her father is in business. Gray was born in Oshkosh Wisconsin.
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