New Dramatic Season Opens In Earnest On Broadway
New York theater scene bursts with a dozen new productions led by The Green Hat and The Vortex as Broadway opens its dramatic season. Katherine Cornell and Margalo Gillmore star in Green Hat, while Noel Coward’s The Vortex delivers vital stage power. Other shows include First Flight and a slate of musical revues with No No Nanette Sunny Dearest Enemy and more.
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New York
Molly Kerr
Katharine Cornell
Helen Chandler
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Katherine Cornwell
Margalo Gillmore
Leslie Howard
Mayfair
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Lillian Wraith
Maxwell Anderson
Laurence Starlings
Vrouns
Andrew Jackson
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Nanette
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Boston
Marilyn Miller
Music Comedy And Movies Next Week At Local Theaters
The coming week offers The Gingham Girl at the Opera House Friday with a popular musical comedy score by Albert Von Tilzer and a love story. The Ten Commandments heads the bill at the Opera House Tuesday and Wednesday, with Buster Keaton’s Seven mentioned for Monday. Maryland and Empire listings show a mix of Westerns, comedies, and news reels across multiple days, featuring stars like Lionel Barrymore and Buck Jones plus serials and two reel features.
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Earl Carroll Theatre
New York
Albert von Tilzer
Pera Nouse
Buster Keaton
Harold Bell Wright
Buck Jones
Fox News
Empire
Claire Windsor
Bert Lytell
Dolly Richards
City Opera House
Air Holes Price Confusion Revealed at Commerce Conference
A conference on weights and measures at the Department of Commerce exposed how consumers pay for air in ice cream containers. It found millions of quarts sold with much of the product’s volume occupied by air rather than ice cream.
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Department of Commerce
United States
Deck’s Dope Reflects On Stresses Of Life And Work
Walter Decker presents a fragmentary verse and prose sketch about life, school life, work, and war. It juxtaposes tablets and labor, the limits of Uncle Sam’s power, and the urge to sing or yell a lone song amid a troubled world.
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Uncle Sam
Sons
The Gingham Girl Attracts Season’s Best Seats
The week features deeply reduced prices to attract audiences for The Gingham Girl. Promoters urge securing seats now to avoid missing this popular season’s attraction and inviting audiences to fall in love with the performer.
Great Majority of Men Only Thinks Much Less Than They Do
In a short essay from Boys' Life, the author argues that most men rely on idle thoughts and rarely translate thinking into action. He claims 90 percent of thinking is daydreaming and that few people produce original ideas. The piece criticizes unexamined prejudices and passive acceptance of beliefs and loyalties.
Western bill at Opera House features Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson appears in The Wild Bull's Lair at the Opera House. The bill also includes the sixth episode of Sunken Silver and a news reel. Jack Perrin stars in Shootin Square.
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Opera House
Fred Thompson
Empire today features Snow Hawk comedy and news reel
Maryland presents Tricked a fast action picture with Edmund Cobb as today's feature at the Maryland theater. Richard Holt stars in Secret Service Landers, a comedy with additional attractions. A Classified Ad in The News promises results.
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Secret Service Landers
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