Isle of Forgotten Women at the Academy of Light
The Stage and Screen notes a Columbia Pictures feature Isle of Forgotten Women a vivid action romance with exotic tropics palm trees moonlight and dancing girls. Conway Tearle stars as Bruce Paine fleeing arrest and protecting his father while Alice Calhoun plays his sweetheart Alice Burroughs in a perilous Pacific island setting with danger from adders fevers and crafty locals.
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Tropics
Columbia Pictures
Isle of
Conway Tearle
Tearle
Bruce Paine
Alice Burroughs
Alice Calhoun
Paine
Pacific
John Stort
Teddy Bear Girls at Maryland Theatre Next Week
Billy Leights Teddy Bear Girls, led by Nat Bowen and Joe Sterling, open a week at the Maryland Theatre next Monday. Margie Wright, Joe Sterling, Nat Bowes, George and Lillian Sullivan headline a strong musical comedy chorus with new electrical effects and a standout soubrette Babe Knight.
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Billy ‘Leights
Teddy Bear Girls
Maryland
Nat Bowen
Joe Sterling
Kmown
Maryland Theatre
Margie Wright
South
Memphis
Nat Bowes
George
Lillian Sullivan
Babe Knight
Letter Golf Puzzle Teases Readers With Word Lapses
A reader friendly puzzle from yesterday’s Mail presents letter golf where players swap one letter at a time to change a word. The rules require complete common words for each step, with seven strokes needed to reach the target, par, and a playful nod to water polo.
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Wade
Ralph Waldo Emerson joins Gish film in Enemy
The Enemy brings Ralph Forbes and Ralph Emerson to the screen with Lillian Gish in a Metro Goldwyn Mayer drama at the Colonial Theatre. Emerson, a great nephew of the philosopher, plays Bruce, one of Gish’s suitors, in a story set in Austria adapted from Channing Pollock’s stage play.
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Lillian Gish
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Colonial Theatre
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph
Emerson
Bruce
Miss Gish
Ralph Forbes
Austria
Channing Pollock
Fred Niblo
Ralph Emerson
George Fawcett
Frank Currier
Karl Dane
Polly Moran
John Peters
Billy Kent Schaefer
Fritzi Ridgeway
The Dove at the Academy on Monday
Norma Talmadge selects The Dove for her United Artists debut, a Belasco produced play that premiered February 11, 1925 at the Empire Theatre in New York City. Taudith Anderson rose to stardom in the production with Holbrook Blinn also featured.
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the Dove
Willard Mack
Norma Talmadge
United Artists
Academy
David Belasco
Empire Theatre
New York City
Belasco
Taudith Anderson
Holbrook Blinn
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Belasco Roles Highlight Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland
The piece notes Norma Talmadge’s third Belasco portrayal following Kiki and The Heart of Verona with Dolores Romero named as a fiery Spanish heroine. Gilbert Roland is described as the on screen Jose Maria while William Harrigan acts as a co star figure with Noah Berg Johnny Powell referenced as well.
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Jose Maria
Noah Berg
Johnny Powell
William Harrigan
Gilbert Roland
Roland
Armand Duval
Norma Talmadge
Camille
Belasco
Kiki
Heart of Verona
Dolores Romero
Miss Talmadge
Woman leaps to death from hotel window in New York
In New York on May 4 a Chicago woman Rae Plyeshman aged 422 leaped from a twelfth floor window of the Hotel Parliament on upper Broadway and died. Police investigated the fatal incident as a possible suicide with initial inquiries focusing on motive and circumstances surrounding the leap.
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New York
Rae Plyeshman
Chicago
Upper Broadway
Woman Leaps From Hotel Window Into Rear Areaway
Workmen at a partly finished building report seeing a woman loiter at a hotel window for about thirty minutes before she climbed onto the sill and jumped into a rear areaway. Police were cited in the account.
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