Lal Cha and Mehra Star in The Thirteenth Chair at Palace
Mehra an Indian lecturer and writer plays the servant-detective in Calcutta for this MGM all talking film. Margaret Wycherly repeats her Broadway Rosalie La Grange role with Bela Lugosi as Delzante. The program also features Harry Langdon in Skirt Shy and the Hearst Metrotone News.
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University of California
Tod Browning
Calcutta
Mehra
New York
Margaret Wycherly
Rosalie la Grange
Delzante
Bela Lugosi
Dracula
Conrad Nagel
Leila Hyams
Holmes Herbert
Mary Forbes
Helene Millard
Cyril Chadwick
John Davidson
Clarence Geldert
Charles Quartermaine
Moon Carroll
Gretchen Holland
Bertram Johns
Harry Langdon
Skirt Shy
Hearst Metrotone News
Married in Hollywood opens at Apollo with Viennese operetta charm
The Fox Movietone release Married in Hollywood stars Norma Terris and J Harland Murray lead a large cast in a romance on a Balkan prince and an American opera singer. The story travels from Vienna to a revolution and an ocean liner to Hollywood with stage numbers by Edward Royce and songs by Dave Stamper. Other features include Vitaphone acts and Movietone newsreels.
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Oscar Straus
Harlan Thompson
Talking Screen
Hollywood
Apollo
Balkans
Vienna
Norma Terris
J. Harold Murray
Tom Patricola
Walter Catlett
Irene Palasty
Evelyn Hall
Douglas Gilmore
Bert Sprotte
Lennox Pawle
le- Maixannelly
Edward Royce
Dave Stamper
Gorgeous Pagentry
Fox Movietone
Marcel Silver
Clifford
Marion
Roger Williams
Movietone
Eddie Ware Returns to Colonial Holiday Follies
Eddie Ware, known from summer crowds for his comedy and original parody with a uke, returns to the Colonial in Holiday Follies opening Sunday. The show features song numbers and specialties by Florence King Irene Jeskin Mel Copeland Bert Wrenneck and Daisy Due with the Colonial Runway Chorus, plus a screen comedy The Fall of Eve with Frederic and Fanny Hatton written dialogue. Patsy Ruth Miller Ford Sterling Gertrude Astor Arthur Rankin Jed Proudy Betty Farrington Fred Kelsey Hank Mann appear.
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Eddie Ware
Florence King
Irene Jeskin
Mel Copeland
Bert Wrenneck
Daisy Due
Columbia
Frederic
Fanny Hatton
Patsy Ruth Miller
Ford Sterling
Gertrude Astor
Arthur Rankin
Jed Proudy
Betty Farrington
Fred Kelsey
Hank Mann
Arliss Honored in London for Disraeli Film Triumph
George Arliss, famed English speaking actor born in London, gains praise in London for the talking film Disraeli. A private Nov 21 performance for Parliament at Piccadilly drew glowing reviews, with critic E A Baughan calling it the best sound film yet made despite English prejudice against American productions.
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George Arliss
London
Louis N. Parker
Disraeli
America
United States
Great Britain
Arliss
Andre Maurois
Parker
Dennis Eadie
E. A
City Musical Activities Highlight Local Conservatory Events
Elmer Marshall of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music reads Dickens to Franklin high school audiences and performs in Fort Wayne. Recitals at the conservatory paused until Jan. 10, with many students and teachers traveling to concerts in Cincinnati New York Chicago and Indianapolis. The Jewish Community Center hosts a four part musicales starting Sunday with Lafayette artist Claris Krohngold and accompanist Mrs. John Kolmer. A Christmas season recital closes December 21 at the Odeon with many students from Frances Beik and other instructors.
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Elmer Marshall
Dramatic Art
Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music
Dickens
Franklin High School
Marshall
Ft. Wayne
Rotary Club
Kirshbaum Center
Krohngold
Indianapolis
John Kolmer
Enon
O . Kramer
Cadman
Verborgenheit
Rachmaninoff
Renee Ene
Stea Swig Tchaikovsky
Cavatine
Heba
Gounod
Jewish Community Center Association
Marion Schilling Signed for Lead in Resur rection Musical
New Star Marion Schilling is signed by Tiffany to play Katusha in the musical adaptation Resur rection directed by Phil Goldstone. She previously led Lord Byron of Broadway and was ingenue in Wise Girls.
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Marion Schilling
Tiffany
Katusha
Phil Goldstone
Miss Schilling
Lord Byron
Rialto Vaudeville and Pictures Theater Policy Change
Rialto shifts to vaudeville and pictures with a family theater policy starting Sunday. First bill features Hickville Four, Lydo Duo, Al and Mary Royce in Monkey Shines, Gyles and Langley Tid Bits of Vaudeville, and a Rialto Chorus runway number interlaced with acts. Olive Borden appears on 11.2 in Half Marriage.
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Rialto
Hickville Four
Lydo
Mary Royce
Gyles
Langley
Rialto Chorus
Olive Borden
Hollywood Story Department Sees Wide Activity At Tiffany Studios
A. P. Younger leads a busy Tiffany studio story department adding top writers. Leeson adapts Paper Profits, Russell works on Song of the Island, Ansell completes The Medicine Man, Westland adapts The Luxury Girl, Buffington on Pardon My Glove, Snell reshapes Sunny Skies, and Natteford writes Lasca musical from Desprez. MGM acquires Remote Control rights, with cast and director tba. Sally Starr and Cliff Edwards join The Flower Garden cast. Lettice Howell to debut onscreen in the color revue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiffany Studios
A. P. Younger
Hollywood
Mr. Younger
Ois Leeson
John Russell
Eve Ansell
Ben Westland
Maysie Grieg
Adele Buffington
Earle Snell
Jack Natteford
Sally Starr
Cliff Edwards
Ike
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Marty Brooks
Lettice Howell
MGM adds Trixie Friganza to Just Kids revue cast
Celebrities joining the MGM revue Just Kids include Trixie Friganza joining Weber and Fields on the coast. Louis Mann DeWolf Hopper Josephine Sabel Fay Templeton and others will follow. Charlotta King is named as the first young performer for the modern section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trixie Friganza
Fine Comedienne
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Weber and Fields
Louis Mann
DeWolf Hopper
Josephine Sabel
Fay Templeton
Miss Friganza
Murray Anderson
Charlotta King
Sound engineer Douglas Shearer pilots own plane for film previews
Douglas Shearer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has earned a government pilot’s license and uses his new airplane for out-of-town previews. He flies to show films in the cockpit and returns them to the studio vaults the same night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Shearer
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
College Photoplay Adds Crane to Fresh From College Cast
Phyllis Crane joins Sally Starr in the cast of the new collegiate photoplay Fresh From College. William Haine directs the film with Leila Hyams in the leading female role in this fresh vehicle from the screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Crane
Sally Starr
Sam Wood
William Haine
Leila Hyams
Rod LaRocque to Star Second Radio Vehicle Next Week
Rod LaRocque will begin his second radio vehicle titled Strictly Business with support from Doris Kenyon and Mitchell Lewis. A few days later George Archainbaud starts production on the all talking drama Framed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rod LaRocque
Doris Kenyon
Mitchell Lewis
George Archainbaud
Civic Will Open New Comedy at Civic Theater
Civic will present the comedy PPHE LADY FROM ALFA QUEQUE by Joaquin and Sera fin Alvarez Quintero at the Civic Theater Playhouse on Nineteenth and Alabama streets opening Dec 28 through Jan 4 with a New Year’s Eve gala. The plot follows Fernandita of Alfaqueque and a con man Felipe as Madrid life meets memory. A Christmas Eve Holy Night performance by Martinez Sierra will also be staged.
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Joaquin and
Serafin
Alvarez Quintero
Civic Theater Playhouse
Nineteenth
Alabama Streets
Madrid
New York
London
Fernandita
Alfaqueque
Felipe Rivas
Don Pascual
Felipe
Fernandta
Civic Theater
Playhouse
Martinez Sierra
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Paris
Circle
Irene Bordoni
Circle Theater
First National Vitaphone
Clarence Badger
Newton Center
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Miss Bordoni
Jack Buchanan
Charlot
Louise Closser Hale
Jason Robards
Zasu Pitts
Margaret Fielding
Moran
Challis
Allen
Mickey
Indiana
Paramount
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Buddy
Lukas
Joe Browning
Joe Browning, Jr
Charlie Davis
Jules
Josie Watson
Katherine Wright
Whitey Roberts
Dave Gould
Louise Powell
THE
Ohio
George Bancroft
New Ohio Theater
Bancroft
Esther Ralston
Raymond Hatton
Warner Oland
Dorothy Revier
Los Angeles
Sixth
Spring Streets
Financial District
Motion Pictures
Granada
Virginia Ave
Robert Armstrong
Palace
Ted Lewis
the Lyric
Charles
Buddy” Rogers
Heaven
Glenn Friermood
Vocal
Conservatory
Mr. Nunnally
Iden
Ala
William Schwenger
Piano
Kokomo
Flora E. Lyons
Eleanora Beauchamp
Piano Department
Ida Belle Sweeney
Franklin N. Taylor
Chicago
Mr. Taylor
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Willard MacGregor
St. Louis
Miss Berk
Madison, Wis
Edwin Jones
Red Key
Ind
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Frieda Heider
Cincinnati College of Music
Crippled Children’s Public School
West Washington Street
Betty Barnes
Church of the Nazarene
Harriet Ford
Miss Sweenie
Shortridge High School
Florence Schwartz
Mary Rose Lowry
Marietta
Ellen Jarrett
Miss Heider
Fortville
Thelma Tharp
Louise Richele
St. Mark’s Evangelical Church
Margaret Walker
Irvington Methodist Church
Erma Day
Rosella Kellermeyer
Carrollton Avenue Reformed
Margaret Rasbach
Zion’s Evangelical Church
Claris S. Krohngold
Lafayette
Odeon
Edith McCounb
Maxine McKay
Anna Marie Zimmerman
Albert Speicher
Richard Krause
Marie Lenahan
Mary Martha Wolf
Frances Mullikin
Mildred Donahue
Jane Crawford
Vivian McNew
Margaret Powell
Virginia Sheely
Virginia Harbaugh
Constance Davy
Marjorie Alexander
Leona Tobey
Mary Helen Seal
Mary Rosalind Parr
Opal Reynolds
Sarah Olinger
Erma Hawkins
Frances Beik
F. Elmer Marshall
Edward Nell
Lucile Wagner
Jeanette Gardiner
Marie Zorn
Iva F. Duckwall
Lilian Carr Greene
Donn Watson
Hazel Lamkin
Wilma Davis Hine
Leone Kinder Rickman
Loew
Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer
Conrad Nagel i
Hearst Metrotone News the Talking Newspaper
Krazy Kat Kartoon “Farm Relief
Lasca
Frank Desprez
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Forty-eighth Street Theater
Clyde North
Albert C. Fuller
Jack T. Nelson
Edwards
Jean Arthur
France
Louise Classer Hale
Ulaaa
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Haines
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