Indiana theater opens week with Fast Company and Roof Garden Revels
The Indiana theater launches its week with Paramounts Fast Company starring Jack Oakie Evelyn Brent and Skeets Gallagher. Also on the bill Roof Garden Revels a stage show by Charlie Davis and band plus a Dessa Byrd organlogue and Louise Powell dancing students.
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Indiana Theater
Fast Company
Roof Garden
Charlie Davis
Dessa Byrd
Louise Powell
Paramount
World Pictures
Jack Oakie
Evelyn Brent
Richard “Skeets
Dixie Follies Opens Northwest Tour At Winnipeg
Joe Wilton Rex Weber and their Dixie Follies with a cast of thirty five opened its tour of the northwestern R K O theaters last week at Winnipeg. A girls orchestra Jean Rankin and Her Blue Belles has eleven members. The Dixie Steppers are eight dancers and the Three Forman Sisters provide harmony. Ruby Kabby sings blues. More than thirty cast members have rarely left the South. Produced by Macklin Megley for R K O.
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Joe Wilton
Rex Weber
Dixie Follies
Winnipeg
Jean Rankin
Blue Belles
Dixie Steppers
Forman Sisters
Ruby Kabby
Mason and Dixon
Macklin Megley
Evangelist Ira S Bassett to Lead Countywide Campaign
Pittsburgh evangelist Ira S Bassett will conduct countywide evangelistic meetings at Cable Tabernacle starting in September ht s . He will be assisted by a music director a male quartet a Bible teacher and two assistant evangelists An invitation has been extended to all pastors and churches to cooperate in the campaign Bassett is described as a successful businessman who preaches.
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Ira S. Bassett
Pittsburgh
Cable Tabernacle
Bassett
Barrymore Announces The Man as Next Vitaphone Vehicle
John Barrymore's second all talking Vitaphone film is titled The Man with working title announced by J L Warner. Filming to start in September with a period setting. Barrymore just finished General Crack a seventeenth century romance and is now involved in Show of Shows a scene from Richard III.
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John Barrymore
J. L. Warner
Barrymore
Warner
Richard the Third
Paramount Plans Major Studio Production Drive
Paramount will launch its largest production drive with 23 units active across Hollywood and Long Island studios this week. Night set construction, day photography, and continuous shifts at Paramount laboratories support films including Fast Company Illusion The Virginian and The Love Doctor along with Glorifying the American Girl Applause and five others in rehearsal. Basil Dean wraps The Return of Sherlock Holmes on Long Island as The Laughing Lady and The Big Pond are slated to begin next week.
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Hollywood
Long Island
Paramount Laboratories
Moran and
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Ziegfeld
Ernest Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier
George Bancroft
Clara Bow
Evelyn Brent
Sir Phillip Gibbs
Nancy Carroll
Helen Kane
Jack Oakie
Fay Wray
Hal Skelly
William Powell
the Kibitzer
Paramount
Basil Dean
Sherlock Holmes
Clive Brook
A. Conan Doyle
Jeanne Engels
Music School Opens Season at Arthur Jordan Conservatory
The Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music begins its fall term on Monday September 9 with registration at 1204 North Delaware street. Boris Rosenfield piano teacher will host pupils that morning at his studio, and violin teacher Stanley O Norris joins the faculty. Lillian Adam Flickinger continues on the faculty at 1204 North Delaware street and Bernice Van Sickle returns after an absence bringing dramatic arts and stage experience to the program.
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North
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Arthur Jordan
Stanley O. Norris
Mr. Norris
Gaylord Yost
Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts
Kafka
Bohemia
Severk
The
Conservatory
Lillian Adam Flickinger
Bernice van Sickle
Metropolitan School Dramatic Art
Miss van Sickle
Sargent
Theodora Irvine
Arliss Plans England Trip Between Filming and Holiday Abroad
Borge Arliss will sail directly to England from Hollywood after completing the Vitaphone version of Disraeli at Warner studio in August. He will stay abroad on vacation until late fall and return before Christmas to offer a new play, possibly opening in Los Angeles. Mrs Arliss also stars in Disraeli and will join him on the vacation.
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England
Hollywood
Disraeli
Warner Studio
United States
Los Angeles
New York
Chicago
Montreal
Mr. Arliss
Green Goddess
Warner Brothers
Cattle Swim Scene Shot for The Virginian at Stanislaus River
Paramount's all talking epic The Virginian filmed a three hundred cattle crossing the Stanislaus River. Seven cameras captured the spectacle and microphones recorded the cattle calls and cowboy shouts. Gary Cooper Walter Huston Richard Arlen and Mary Brian star in the production.
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Stanislaus
Paramount
Gary Cooper
Walter Huston
Richard Arlen
Mary Brian
Singing harpist among Metro-Movietone acts at Loew's Palace
George Lyons the singing harpist is highlighted as a feature of the Metro-Movietone attractions now on stage at Loew's Palace.
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Ruth Chatterton
Lewis Stone
Raymond Hackett
Miss Chatterton
Bernhardt
Stone
Mary Dugan
Hackett
Holmes Herbert
Eugenie Besserer
Mitchell Lewis
Ulfric
Madame
Madame X
Metro Movietone
George Lyons
Keller Sister
Lunah
Lester Huff
Fox Movietone
Charlie Chase
M. G. M. News
Sophie Tucker
Metro-Movietone
Loew's Palace
Universal Sets 1929 30 Opening Picture The Drake Case
Universal selects The Drake Case as season lead off for 1929 30. Charles A Logue wrote the script and Edward lcammle directed. Official release date is September 1 1929.
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Universal
Drake Case
Charles A. Logue
Edward Lcammle
Big Days Planned At Riverside Park
Big days planned at Riverside Park with ALLOON ascensions and parachute jumps as free attractions Sunday and Monday afternoon. Ethel Pritchett, a familiar balloon figure, will ascend Sunday and Edna Hugegins, a newcomer, will perform on Labor Day. Free parking will be provided by traffic officers and free checking for baskets. No admission charged for any visitors.
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Alloon
Riverside Amusement
Ethel Pritchett
Edna Hugegins
Riverside
Shady Grove
Fare Nell Or in Old Californy Comes to Screen
Louige Fazenda stars in a Paramount release of Fare Nell Or in Old Californy a Western stage spoof directed by William Watson. Jack Luden plays the hero Frank Rice the sheriff Harry Woods the gambler heavy and Charlie Mack the Last Chance Saloon keeper as desert locations and portable trucks create authentic West atmosphere. Louise Fazenda portrays Faro Nell a child of nature with a heart of gold drawn from Willis Steele short play.
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Old Californy
Jack Luden
Frank Rice
Harry Woods
Charlie Mack
Last Chance Saloon
Paramount
William Watson
Faro Nell
Louise Fazenda
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