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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
15
The long running program at area houses includes Treasure Island with Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper and Lionel Barrymore in a multi week presentation. The show runs Monday and Tuesday with strong audience interest and significant star power from the cast and production.
The Roanoke Rapids program features Robert Stevenson’s Treasure Island with Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins. Dames, Warner Brothers musical with Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, follows next week with showings on Wednesday and Thursday.
The article proclaims Warner Brothers new motion picture musical Dames as a dazzling production with Dahlia and a strong cast led by Hugh Herbert and Guy Kibbee. Zazu Pitts features as a prim wife in the story of a rich man and a cousin, touted as the most gorgeous entertainment yet screened.
Adolphe Menjou and Doris Kenyon head the cast of The Human Side Friday only bargain day attraction on next weeks Peoples program. The cast includes Charlotte Henry Joseph Cawthorne and Reginal Owen. The story centers on a producer played by Menjou and his martial difficulties.
An all star western titled Fighting To Live headlines the Saturday traction on next weeks Peoples program. The reading notes feature top performers and a schedule of events.
Mrs. Willie Eure hosted a Brunswick Stew at Eure Farm in Halifax on September 6th in honor of her son William Eure and his guest L M Edwards of Durham. Guests arrived at 5 and played tennis and outdoor games before a 6 o'clock meal of Brunswick Stew corn bread pickles iced tea and cake.
Miss Martha Elizabeth Whiddon daughter of Mrs. Frank Coleman Whiddon wed Nathan L. Stedman Jr. at 5 pm in Highlands house. The ceremony honored social figures from Florida and North Carolina with out of town guests and plans to reside at 1050 East University Avenue after a Chicago honeymoon.
The Paramount stage today cast real twins Bee and Jean Mec Cune in roles for The Lemon Drop Kid alongside Lee Tracy and Helen Mack, adding authentic sibling balance to the production.
Halifax and nearby towns host a stream of visitors and relatives. Names include Mrs Caswell Shaw, John Daniel of New York visiting his mother Mrs Lucy Daniel, Miss Madge Hall of Durham visiting sister Mrs Bettie Ewing, and guests from Portsmouth Winston-Salem Richmond Ox ford Jackson Thelma Colerain Littleton Dur ham.
Weldon were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. I G Shaw. Mr. and Mrs Charles Vincent of Salisbury were the guests of relatives here for the week end.
Billie Jolly hosted a Saturday birthday party at his parents home August 25 celebrating his fifth year. Guests enjoyed lawn games, then ice cream and cake around a five candle centerpiece. Attendees included Helen Shear Sylvia Earldene Lynch Mary Ruth Whitby Marie Parks and others.
Miss Mamie Lee Rawlings of Lawrenceville and John Herbert Norwood of Fitzhugh were secretly married at the Emporia Methodist parsonage on Saturday morning September 1. Only immediate family attended. After September 1 the couple will live in Fitzhugh Virginia.
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