Murat Players Present A Voice in the Dark Next Week
Walter Vonnegut brings the Murat Players to the Murat with the aero mystery A Voice in the Dark. A coroners inquest opens as Hugh Sainsbury is found murdered, with Blanche Warren suspected and Harlan Day seeking to clear her. Cast includes Dana Desboro and others.
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Walter Vonnegut
Murat Players
Murat
The
Franklin
Briarcliffe
Hugh Sainsbury
Maria Lydiard
Blanche Warren
Harlan Day
Sainsbury
Adele Warren
Blanche
Dana Desboro
Richard Thornton
Harold Vermilye
Jessamine Newcombe
Claude Kimball
Julia Cobb
Duncan Penwarden
Thomas Williams
W. E. Watts
Tarkington in Maine on Whispering Men project
Booth Tarkington near Kennebunkport Maine works on a new comedy drama titled Whispering Men with Thomas Meighan slated for the leading role. Meighan will film The Alaskan in Alaska with director Herbert Brenon before returning to New York for Columbia University honorary degree and Famous Players-Lasky talks before summer at his Maine home.
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Booth Tarkington
Thomas Meighan
Paramount
Meighan
Alaska
James Oliver Curwood
Herbert Brenon
New York City
Columbia University
Famous-Players-Lasky Corporation
Tarkington
Kennebunkport
Maine
Mary Pickford May Be Named for Peter Pan Role
Hollywood speculation grows after Sir James Barrie may select the Peter Pan star. Jesse L. Lasky says Barrie’s word decides the choice, with Mary Pickford discussed as the title character and screen tests reviewed by Barrie in London.
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James M. Barrie
Paramount
Barrie
Mary
Maude Adams
Miss Pickford
England
Jesse L. Lasky
Famous Players-Lasky
London
Herbert Brenon
Lasky
Mary Pickford
Europe
Daglas Fairbanks
Adolph Zukor
New York
Hollywood
Peter Pan
Sir James
National Productions forms star talent corner in film world
Eight National Productions, Inc. acts like an anti trust challenger by cornering leading men. The roster includes Lewis Stone Lloyd Hughes Wallace Beery under Harry Hoyt in Temperament with Colleen Moore. Also Milton Sills Lou Tellegen and Henry B Walthall in Single Wives alongside Colleen Moore Corinne Griffith Bessie Love Kathryn Williams Winifred Bryson and Phyllis Haver.
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Lewis Stone
Lloyd Hughes
Wallace Beery
Harry Hoyt
Conway Tearle
Colleen Moore
Milton Sills
Lou Tellegen
Henry B. Walthall
Corinne Griffith
Bessie Love
Kathryn Williams
Winifred Bryson
Phyllis Haver
James Cruze wraps Merton of the Movies as Paramount picture
Glenn Hunter returns to New York to resume the road tour of the stage version of Merton of the Movies. James Cruze will begin work soon on The Case of Fallen Angels, a story by F Leroy Scott.
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James Cruze
Merton
Paramount
Glenn Hunter
New York
Mr. Cruze
F. Leroy Scott
Milton Aborn musical shows close at Keith's theater
The Milton Aborn company ends its Keith's run tonight due to low patronage. Aborn and Keith’s team produced costly, well presented musical comedy, but audience support waned, ending the season. An editorial note praises the effort and laments the loss of summer musical entertainment.
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George M. Cohan
Broadway Jones
Abie
Capitol
Aborn Opera Company
B. F. Keith's
O’brien
Keith House
Keith
Milton Aborn
Aborn
Colleen Moore Wears Two Kinds Of Vamp Shoes On Screen
Colleen Moore, a popular flapper star, models different vamp shoes for closeups and group shots. She says the short vamp shoes have no heels and the long vamp shoes have heels, both old and disreputable, while long shots show regulation footwear.
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Colleen Moore
First National Pictures
Miss Moore
Universal Prepares Big Film On The Phantom Of The Opera
Universal plans another Lon Chaney picture after The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. The company has bought Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom Of The Opera, to be directed by Rupert Julian on a gigantic scale. Production starts about Aug 1.
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Universal
Notre Dame
Gaston Leroux
Rupert Julian
Berkel seeks rights for The Last Warning in July lineup
Berkell plans early production of The Last Warning a mystery drama after touring Indianapolis last winter. The Old Soak, a prohibition comedy, is slated for June 29, with The Last Warning possibly the week of July 6. The Old Soak ran over a year at the Plymouth Theatre in New York with two touring companies led by Raymond Hitchcock and Thomas A Wise.
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Berkell
English's
Indianapolis
Don Marquis
Plymouth
New York City
Raymond Hitchcock
Thomas A.wise
James Boys to Visit Murat in Next Season
Murat Theatre to host the James Boys with Paul Whiteman band and James Girls in Little Jessie James, Broadway’s dancing chorus. Weber says the musical comedy, a top season hit including I Love You, nears its first New York year and travels with the same production.
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Jessie James
James Boys
Paul Whiteman
James Girls
New York
De Mille Returns West to Film Spring Cleaning Adaptation
William De Mille left New York after a month of talks with Clara Beranger on adapting Frederick Lonsdale's comedy Spring Cleaning. He returns to the West Coast to begin filming.
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William de Mille
New York
Clara Beranger
Frederick Lonsdale
West Coast
Wanamaker to Lead University Orchestra Attraction
John Wanamaker a bass horn artist travels from Seattle to Michigan as a University of Michigan student and joins forces with Alfred Evans and his University Orchestra. He has played under famed American masters, led the bass section of the Michigan Band, served in France as a musician and doughboy.
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John Wanamaker
Alfred Evans
His
University Orchestra
University of Michigan
John
America
Pat Conway
Atlantic City
N. J
U of M
Wilson
Wanny
France
New Salt and Pepper Singers Spark Comedy Cabaret Hit
Two boys discovered by Karyl Norman in a Detroit cabaret wowed audiences at the Palace in New York last week with bluesy syncopated numbers. They are likely to be booked as a standalone act.
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Salt and Pepper
Karyl Norman
Detroit
the Palace
New York
Raymond Fagan Orchestra Tops Lyric Program
Raymond Fagan's ten member orchestra brings a fast melodic program to the Lyric offering popular and syncopated numbers. The bill features acts with Rogers and Donnelly Currier and Mc Williams Rasso and more plus on screen fare including Bottle Babies and The Telephone Girl serial.
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Rogers and Donnelly
Lyric Ballroom
Raymond Fagan
Fagan
New York
London
Big George
Grazer
Lawler
America
Kinograms
Palace Theater Prepares Fun Acts for Grotto Convention
The Palace Theater books special acts for next week as the Grotto convention arrives. Opening the show are Kranz and Al White in their act Nonsense. White is an Indianapolis boy.
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Palace Theater
Kranz
al White
White
Indianapolis
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