Torch Singer Opens at Rialto with Claudette Colbert
The Paramount Liberty production Torch Singer starring Claudette Colbert and Ricardo Cortez opens at the Rialto Sunday for a four day engagement. Colbert plays a two faced role from mother to torch singer with a strong supporting cast including David Manners.
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Police Seek Funds for Benevolent and Protective Association
Members of the police department canvas city businesses for contributions to the Benevolent and Protective Association. Chief Nicholas Fornango notes the group has been money short due to bank conditions and asks residents to give generously to support officers who fall ill or are injured in the line of duty.
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Rialto Weekly Screenings Highlight Classic Comedies
The Rialto announces a packed program from Sunday to Saturday featuring Claudette Colbert and Ricardo Cortez in Torch Singer, Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville in Her First Mate, William Gargan with Frances Dee in Head Line Shooter, Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, and Dickie Moore with Irving Pischel in Oliver Twist.
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Claudette Colbert
Ricardo Cortez
Zasu Pitts
Slim Summerville
William Gargan
Frances Dee
Mae West
Dickie Moore
Irving Pischel
Slim and ZaSu Set to Open in Her First Mate at Rialto
Joliet audiences will see Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts in Her First Mate at the Rialto Thursday. The film, drawn from the Broadway Salt Water by Dan Jarrett and Frank Craven, features Una Merkel and others from the stage cast and follows a candy butcher on a Hudson River steamboat whose plan to become a captain ends with a ferry boat exploding on its first trip.
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Berton Churchill
Jocelyn Lee
George Marion
Henry Armetta
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Tug Boat Annie Ends Tomorrow At Rialto Theatre
Last chance to see Tug Boat Annie at the Rialto theatre with Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler. The comic romance has drawn crowded houses all week and continues to delight audiences.
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Screen shots reveal sports and film gossip items
Buster Crabbe reads that another Olympic swimming record may be broken. Maurice Chevalier wears threadbare garments for The Way To Love scenes. Judith Allen is forgiven by Cecil B. DeMille for an identity hoax. Dorothy Peterson appears in I'm No Angel with Mae West in pink scenes.
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