Chicago film bid to dominate screen opens at Colonial
The stage hit Chicago opens at the Colonial Theatre today in a De Mille Studio Pathé adaptation after a December 1925 stage run. Maurine Watkins wrote the satirical comedy based on her experiences as a sobo sister reporter in the metropolis, with a sensational transition from New York stage to the screen.
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Movie Dedicates Portrait of Traveling Salesman Screenward
The First National picture Smile Brother Smile now plays at the Academy. Jack Mulhall stars as the lively young traveling salesman with Dorothy Mackaill as his lead partner. The cast features T Roy Barnes Philo McCollough Yola d Avril Brooks Benedict and E J Ratcliffe among others.
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Dress Parade at West Point Reveals Pershing’s Old Room
Pathe-DeMille special Dress Parade at West Point thrills director Donald Crisp and star William Boyd as they shoot in a plebe room once used by Black Jack Pershing. An army sergeant recalls the room’s history. Bessie Love co stars with Boyd with supporting players Hugh Allan Maurice Ryan Clarence Geldart and Louis Natheaux. The Antarctic Continent has the greatest average altitude of all continents.
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Who is the Skinniest Man in the World
Reader notice urges clipping for the town’s skinniest man and those underweight to try McCoy's Tablets or Cad Liver Oil Tablets. It promises an ironclad guarantee: gain at least 5 pounds or get the purchase price back after 4 sixty cent boxes or 2 one dollar boxes.
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Reed heads to Salt Lake City after Western trip
Senator Reed of Missouri, a Democratic Presidential candidate, rests after a long Western speaking tour and departs for Salt Lake City Utah to speak there tomorrow. The travel note mentions March 4 in Reno Nevada and references aurora borealis tied to sunspot activity.
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MELLO-GLO Face Powder touted by Leiter Bros
An ad promotes MELLO-GLO a new French process face powder that keeps shine away stays on smooth not clog pores and remains pure and fine Leiter Bros urges readers to try this powder as a boon for the young and beauty conscious.
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Beau Geste exceeds classic Ten Commandments in scale
The Palace Theatre presents Beau Geste a sweeping romantic desert adventure about the French Foreign Legion vast Sahara dunes a missing sapphire and a mutinous fort garrison. The film promises grand production values romantic thrills and a dramatic screen mystery adapted from a popular novel.
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Paramount Star Casts Big Production Featuring Many Notables
A large undertaking surpasses even The Ten Commandments with a star loaded cast. Ronald Colman Alice Joyce Noah Beery Mary Brian Neil Hamilton William Powell Norman Trevor Victor McLaglan Ralph Forbes lead a lengthy list of prominent performers among scores of others in the Paramount production.
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Noah Berry
Mary Brian William Powell
Norman Trevor
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