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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1933
Page
9
District tournament of the Central Illinois tennis association brings players from five counties to Newell Parke with play starting at 1 PM Tomorrow. The winner and runner-up advance to meet district champions for the state crown at Decatur in mid August. Any city player may enter.
The local council to sponsor its first festival since 1919 on the Central School grounds in August 2027. Thomas J. Dillon chairs arrangements with Joseph M. Mahoney handling publicity, John Driscoll raffles, Dennis Gleason grounds, and William Myers booths. The event aims to become an annual affair.
Sunday through Wednesday Hold Your Man with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Thursday to Saturday The Strangers Return starring Lionel Barrymore Miriam Hopkins and Franchot Tone. Sunday only A Study in Scarlet with June Clyde and Sherlock Holmes. Monday and Tuesday Be Mine Tonight with Magna Schneider. Wednesday and Thursday It s Great To Be Alive with Gloria Stuart. Friday and Saturday The Silk Express with Neil Hamilton and Sheila Terry.
Jean Harlow and Clark Gable star in Hold Your Man at the Rialto Sunday through Wednesday following the success of Red Dust. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an Anita Loos story directed by Sam Wood blending drama and romance, with Harlow's sympathetic performance and Gable's sharp banter guiding a tale of a rowdy love affair turning into a vivid human romance.
Hollywood sends a film crew to a Chino California farm trip to simulate an Iowa countryside for The Stranger's Return directed by King Vidor with Lionel Barrymore and Miriam Hopkins. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production leased thirty acres for outdoor exteriors and built a complete bucolic farm scene with animals, crops, and rustic equipment.
Fox musical comedy It's Great To Be Alive opens Wednesday at the Princess Theatre with Raul Rouben as the last man among many women. Gloria Stuart Edna May Oliver and others support. William Kernell music and Sammy Lee dances elevate the production under Alfred Werker's direction.
The World Wide production lists twelve principals for Study In Scarlet with nine born abroad and most from English locales. Reginald Owen portrays Sherlock and hails from Wheathampstead England. Alan Mowbray Wyndham Standing and Cecil Reynolds come from cosmopolitan London. Halliwell Hobbes was born in Stratford on Avon. Warburton Gamble and J M Kerrigan were born in Ireland. Billy Bevan in Orange New South Wales. Tetsu Komai in Kumamoto Japan.
Five thousand workers in the pocketbook trade stage a strike over pay and conditions. Union organizers claim support from local chapters, while management seeks a negotiation window to avert disruption.
A scrambled set of clipped items notes Mae West and Wallace Beery headed to jail to boost ticket sales for a charity barbecue, and Beery praising Mae West. It mentions Denny’s Lake Arrowhead cabin used by Paramount for location scenes and Dorothea Wieck at Beverly Boulevard. Also Cecil DeMille using exteriors for This Day and Age and Notre Dame coach Hank Anderson with Marchmont Schwartz signaling promise for the next season.
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