The Front Page Leads New York Theater Week
New York theater opens 1928 29 season with four new works including The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Jed Harris produces a Chicago jail press room tale featuring sharp reporters and a looming execution as the center of action. The revival and other new pieces such as The Song Writer and Elmer Gantry adaptation draw mixed reviews for taste and stage effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie Hines
York
Earl Carroll
Elmer Gantry
Irving Berlin
Ellin Mackay
Jed Harris
Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
Cook County
Chicago
Crane Wilbur
Ellen Mackay
Georgie Price
Alex Yokel
Patrick Kearney
Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Atlantic City Tabernacle
Michael Kallesser
Gillham Tops Bill at Lyric in HE Whispering Pianist
Entertainer Art Gillham, famed for his whispering piano vocal style on 287 radio stations and Columbia records, headlines the Lyric next week. The bill also features Davis and Dwan, Dolores Lopez, Coffee Pot Dome, Hillier and Forte, Darrell and Robinson, Mitkus Duo, On the Screen entertainment, and notes that New York music seasons have ended with Goldman band and Carnegie Hall preparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Gillham
Columbia Records
Gillham
Davis
Dwan
Earl Carroll
Dolores Lopez
Golden Voice
Miss Lopez
Jack White
al Christie
Metropolitan
Charles Eichman
Hillier and Forte
Darrell and Robinson
Pathe
Pathe News
Keller and Godfrey Present Red Grange in Seventy Seven
The enterprising agency Keller and Godfrey debuts athlete acts this season with Red Grange joining Mr. Tilden in a miniature musical comedy Seventy Seven. The show opens the week of August 27 in White Plains and Mt Vernon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keller & Godfrey
Mr. Tilden
Red” Grange
White Plains
Mt. Vernon
Corinne Griffith Adapts Lines for Outcast Screen
Corinne Griffith has written lines for her latest First National film Outcast taken from Hubert Henry Davies play. She and leading man Edmund Lowe speak the adapted lines aloud in a modernized screen version.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corinne Griffith
First National
Hubert Henry Davies
Edmund Lowe
Opening Burlesque Season At Mutual Theater
Walter D Hickman reports on the Mutual Burlesque Circuit planning to open the season at the Mutual Theater with Step Lively Girls starring Elsie Burgere. A system of critic slips will gather audience opinions, sent to New York, with local censors visiting cities. Eva Le Gallienne signs with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to appear in talking pictures, aligning with efforts to raise dramatic diction nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Theater
Elsie Burgere
Mutual
Mutual Burlesque Association
New York
Eva le Gallienne
Civic Repertory Theater
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Miss le Gallienne
Margaret Anglin travels for Macbeth rehearsals and vaudeville run
Margaret Anglin rushed from Minneapolis after a vaudeville show to meet George Tyler in New York about his fall Macbeth production in which she will star. She then boarded a train to San Francisco where her act Smarty's Party opens August 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Anglin
George Tyler
Minneapolis
Tyler
Coast
San Francisco
Smarty
Fanny Brice Vitaphone Road Show to Be My Man
J L Warner announced this week that Fannie Brice will star in a Vitaphone Road Show titled My Man. The vehicle was written for Miss Brice by Robert Lord and may feature Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton after their Five OClock Girl run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Warner
Fannie Brice
My Man
Miss Brice
Robert Lord
Oscar Shaw
Mary Eaton
Orphans To Have Big Affair At Riverside Park
Azel Bruce and Ethel Pritchett, Indianapolis orphans renowned for balloon ascents and parachute jumps, will thrill Riverside Amusement Park visitors Sunday with three parachute drops from about a mile high while spectators receive free ride tickets. The Elks Lodge plans a similar annual event next Wednesday for city orphans with rides, a big feed, races, and prizes for over a thousand children from area institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azel Bruce
Ethel Pritchett
Indianapolis
Middle West
Riverside Amusement Park
Riverside
Indianapolis Elks Lodge
The
Elks
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Hazel Bruce and
Will
Monster Riverside
Hilda Spong
Peggy Allenby
Goldman Band
Symphony Orchestra
Edwin Franko Goldman
Atlantic City
Symphony
Carnegie Hall
Darrell
of the Golden Voice
Eva
UNUS
Hillier
Chas. Eichman & Co
Colt
the Lyric
Gus Arnheim
Apollo
Walter D. Hickman
Anglin
Broad Ripple
Indiana
Degura-Walters CO
Tom Walters
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circuses
Fanny
Stars
Variety
Acros Walnut Gardens
Acrts
Danville Band
Marion County
State of
Denison Hotel
Ind
Postoffice
Chevrolet
Jones- Whitaker Co
Otto Graff
East Market Street
Burlesque Theatre
S. Illinois
Mutual Burlesque Association OF
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