Somnes Presents The Desert Song At English's Monday
Somnes brings The Desert Song to English's on Monday night following a four month Detroit summer run. The romance set in northern Africa features Otto Harbach Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel book with Romberg score including The Desert Song and It. Cast includes Alexander Gray Bernard Granville Bernice Claire and more. Also on tour is The Wooden Kimono by George Wintz, a London hit now touring America with May Ward leading the cast.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Frank Mandel
Sigmund Romberg
Blosson Time
Prines” Anda
Ate Aare
Wena
Schwab
Mandel
Queen High
Alexander Gray
Red Shadow
Bernard Granville
Bernice Claire
Harold Stanton
Selly Sloan
Edna Torrence
Philip Ryder
Ben Hendricks
Carlotta Miles
John Ehrle
al Baron
Larry Lawrence
Grace Carroll
Jack Spiegal
Fulton Theater
Cort Theater
George E. Wintz
Australia
Germay
May Ward
Mr. Wintz
America
Edmund Dalby
Vera Temple
Elizabeth Dunne
George Bogues
William Balfour
Richard Beach
Thomas Collins
English’s
Edgar Allan Poe
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Fulton Theatre
Beauty Corinne Griffith Wins Film Fame through Contest
Corinne Griffith of First National becomes a first magnitude film star after entering pictures by winning a beauty contest. Her rise from pageant winner to leading light reflects early 20th century star making in cinema.
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English's The Wooden Kimono opens May Ward mystery play
At English's next Monday night the leading player in The Wooden Kimono is May Ward though the name recalls his grandmother. The piece links to Mrs Beam's arrival in New York via Law rence Langner Theater Guild. Munro's serviceable plot promises lively acting by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. George Somnes will present the play at the Indianapolis Little Theatre Playhouse starting December 11 for five nights.
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London
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Munro
George Somnes
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Playhouse
Cissy Fitzgerald Signs in to Seven Footprints to Satan
Cissy Fitzgerald has been signed for a role in the First National mystery play Seven Footprints to Satan directed by Benjamin Christensen.
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Cissy Fitzgerald
Benjamin Christensen
The Command to Love at Shubert Cincinnati
Walter D Hickman reports on The Command to Love at the Shubert in Cincinnati describing a sophisticated but light comedy with a strong cast led by Mary Nash and Ferdinand Gottschalk. The plot centers on a French attache entangled with Madrid society and a blackmail scheme as diplomats push a treaty matter. Ace Berry is noted visiting from St. Louis.
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Saan Im Enane
Mary Nash
Thomas Louden
Henry Stephenson
Voilet Kemble Cooper
Basil Rathbone
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Anthony Kemble Cooper
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Chicago
Rathbone
Madrid
Spain
Gaston
France
Circus troupe lends exterior scenes to Columbia film
The Al G. Barnes circus, wintering in California, has been placed at Columbia for exterior scenes of The Sideshow. The production stars Marie Prevost and Ralph Graves and diverges from the usual circus portrayal.
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al G. Barnes
California
Columbia
Marie Prevost
Ralph Graves
Sideshow cast features Harmon Roscoe in Kenton tale
The piece highlights carnival sideshow performers as the glamorous and mysterious focus of the production The Sideshow. Pat Harmon and Alan Roscoe join the company for these scenes as Erle C. Kenton directs the cast.
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Alan Roscoe
Erle C. Kenton
Favorite Due at Mutual Girls from Happyland opensSunday
Mutual premieres a new edition of the favorite show with refreshed material for the Happylanders. Irving Selig leads the girth division with Ben Lerner supplying Dutch dialect humor, Fred Reese as straight man, and Nat Tucker in the juvenile role. Rose Lee, Alice Duval, and Leona Reed head the chorus of sixteen in lively numbers.
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Alice Duval
Fred Reese
Nat Tucker
Ben Lerner
Vera Thorn
Rose Lee
Pip
Happyland
Happylanders
Selig
Leona Reed
Movie Out of Infancy by Le Roy Remarks on Talking Pictures
Mervyn LeRoy, First National director, states that talking pictures have ended the era of silent films being in their infancy. He argues sound cinema marks a mature phase, elevating production and performance beyond the limitations of silent storytelling.
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