Aztec Film Praised in Advance by Opera Company
Review notes the San Carlo Opera company booking into Nexas theater on February 1 with Martha in the matinee and Madame Butterfly in the evening. Mentions Race at Uys Rancho and previews by East and West critics praising the revival and Metropolis beauty. Describes improved stage storytelling and American sound recording context.
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Warners Buy 'Tovarich' Out From Under Others
Warner Brothers reportedly purchased screen rights to Gilbert Muller's stage hit Tovarich for about 195000, blocking MGM and plans to cast Kay Francis and Fav Muni. The London sensation stars Eugenie Leontovich. the project likely won’t reach the screen for months, while a May J. Pirn style lineup and accompanying features appear in theaters.
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Rogers and Astaire Return With Flying Down to Rio
A return engagement opens today at the Palace Theater featuring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Flying Down to Rio for a three day run. Also on the bill is Dangerous Corner with Virginia Bruce and Conrad Nagel.
Leap Year Derby Leads Bing Crosby in Movie Star Poll
Hollywood tally shows Bing Crosby, 48, leading the Leap Year Derby for romantic letters. Other favorites include Dick Powell 45 and Errol Flynn 40, with Voters from Des Moines and beyond sending proposals while Mrs Crosby remains a noted fixture. The list also includes Gary Cooper 20 and Boris Karloff 9 as the contest intensifies.
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Film gossip and star making talk from 1928
Hollywood chatter on Jack Mulhall audiences applauding his performances and a push for a comeback, notes on Errol Flynn credit and method, censor cuts to Ah Wilderness, Dorothy Lee’s jewelry, new skin stain makeup for color films, implications for stars like Carole Lombard Irene Dunn Gary Cooper and Clark Gable, and Warners director Marc Connelly’s inaugural film work.
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Barbary Coast at Empire in Bathery Cast Returns
Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Edward G Robinson star in Barbary Coast at the Empire. Hopkins plays Swan a stranded San Francisco beauty who becomes queen of Bella Donna a notorious cafe run by Louis Chamalis while Robinson appears as Chaalis.
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State theatre opens with The Beggie’s Brood and Cappy Ricks
Opening Saturday at the State theater features The Beggie’s Brood and Cappy Ricks Returns on the same program. The serial The Roaring West is also shown. Star billing goes to William Boyd and Jimy Ellison in Hopalong Cassidy adventures with Johnny Nelson, continuing the outlaw South West yarns in the era of quick trigger men.
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Swedish Carmen Sets New Record at the Met
New York January 17 Swedish Carmen Hod Wedergren made a notable Met debut singing in Swedish while others performed in French. Critics praised the first Swedish utterance in a Metropolitan Opera show. She performed with one shoe on and one shoe off after a heel break, tossing shoe laces to the wings during act two.
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Mexico Producer Signs Film Stars
Mexico producer Tage Bohr signs film stars including Antonin Moreno Barry Norton and others to appear in Bohr’s Spanish pictures in Mexico City this season. Bohr also plans his own productions and is negotiating with Buster Keaton for a series of feature comedies.
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Anna May Wong Sails for China Monday
Hollywood star Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles and famed for Chinese roles, plans a first look at China and Hong Kong voyage Monday. She intends to write impressions of her parents’ homeland and possibly film scenes there.
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Comedy Relief in Dark Tower at San Pedro’s Playhouse
The Dark Tower comedy at San Pedro’s Playhouse Jan 20 and 21 blends action and melodrama with witty bits to ease emotional strain. DeLaurel Heville plays the maid with clever timing, aided by Madeline Clark as the capricious lady love in the private home setting.
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Courthouse Blast Kills Employee in Jackson Parish
A deadly explosion tore through the Jackson Parish courthouse in Jonesboro, killing 42 year old W L Barnes, a Pectoral Savings employee, and injuring his wife who was on the second floor. Authorities have not explained the blast’s cause.
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Pectoral Savings Association of
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