Betty Lee revival brings Rex Beach tale to Poli's stage
John J. Daly reviews Poli's revival of Betty Lee a musical comedy adaptation of Rex Beach’s Going Some focusing on Gloria Foy as Betty Lee and Stanley Ridges as the ranch visitant with Joe E Brown delivering broad comic moments. The show features a 30 dancer chorus lush costumes and songs like They Always Run a Little Faster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Lee
Gloria Foy
Joe Brown
Harry Leonilgon
Red Gap
West
Action Ruggles
Egbert
Pettingil
Rex Beach
Rockies
Paul Armstrong
Washington
Poli
Louis Hirsch
Miss Foy
Stanley Ridges
Yale
Worthy
Stanley Ridgea
Joe E. Brown
Mr. Brown
Gilbert and Sullivan
Charlotte Woodruff
Miss Woodruff
Otto Harbach
John J. Daly
Metropolitan theater opens second week with Hot Water delight
Harold Lloyd’s Hot Water continues at the Metropolitan as the second week begins with added titles. The program features Paul Terry’s Noah’s Athletic Meet, Grantland Rice’s Sportlight, and the Metropolitan Symphony performing The Evolution of Dixie. Mollie Williams burlesque Snappy Review opens at Gayety with 20 scenes and lively chorines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Lloyd
Metropolitan Theater
Metropolitan World Survey
New Haven
Paul Terry
Grantland Rice
Metropolitan Symphony
Lake
Dixie
Harold
Los Angeles
Jobyna Ralston
Josephine Crowell
Rialto Presents Love and Glory and Diverse Film Lineup
The Rialto features Love and Glory a Universal Jewel epic spanning 60 years from the late sixties to 1921 with Madge Bellamy Charles DeRoche and Wallace MacDonald delivering versatile age transitions. Also showing are The Midnight Express at Crandall’s Ambassador, The Poor Fish a light comedy, Broadways Beauties, a Century comedy, a fashion set, International News reel, and sportlight news pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rialto
Madge Bellamy
Charles DeRoche
Wallace MacDonald
Pierre
Gabrielle
Anatole Picard
Pierre du Pont
Victor
Tomasini
iGuarneri
Crandall
Ambassador Theater
Elaine Hammerstein
William Haines
Charney Chase
Grantland-Rice
Strand Presents Arturo Bernardi and a Potpourri of Song and Dance
Arturo Bernardi headlines an unusually strong Strand bill with 35 characters across three scenes. The act shifts rapidly between roles, supported by Zaza and Adele’s Argentine tango and French Apache dance. Also featured are La France brothers in a head balancing act Delbridge and Gremmer in Harmonies and Smiles and Fagg and White in 1925 Bits of Afric anology. The program opens with the Moving Picture Another Man's Wife followed by an overture On the Way to Monterey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arturo Bernardi
Strand
Zaza
Adele
la France Brothers
Delbridge
Gremmer
Fagg
White
Monterey
Keith's Vaudeville Show Dazzles With Grace La Rue double act
Grace La Rue headlines this week at Keith's in a dual appearance as comic and singer, with Hale Hamilton pacing the Matrimonial scene in Vincent Lawrence's Mr and Mrs Mason. The Graillon twins and Mrs Lucille with parrots add variety, plus a Russian violin soloist and a ventriloquist turn. Norma Talmadge stars in Secrets at the Tivoli, with Burton Holmes offering travelogues of the Italian Alps and Mont Blanc, and Janice Meredith at Columbia detailing Washington's army and the Delaware crossing with a large supporting cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith
Potomac
Grace Fe Rue
Brasa
Art Comedienne
Miss la Rue
Vincent Lawrence
Mrs. Mason
Hale Hamilton
Iskit
Griffon Twins
Fairbanks Twins
Lucille
Radio Birds
Charles O'Donnell
Ethel Blair
Andre de Prang
A. Robina
Jansleys
Janice Meredith
Marion Davies
Columbia
Britain
Paul Igicester Ford
Washington
Delaware
Trenton
Miss Davies
Holbrook Blinn
Harrison Ford
Maclyn Arbuckle
Hattie Delaro
Joseph Kilgour
George Nash
Tyrone Power
Mrs. Arbuckle
George Seigman
W. C. Fields
May Vokes
Olin Howland
Varied Radio Programs On Air Across Many Stations
Monday December 8 schedule lists programs from Navy Yard Washington and distant stations. Highlights include naval ship news, fruit and vegetable market reports, concerts by Nordica Mandolin and Guitar orchestra, Flora Keefer and Durward Bowersox, Irving Boernstein Wardman Park quartet, and dramatic reviews. Numerous stations such as WRC WM, KFSG KDKA, WEEI and WEAF present weather, stock reports, language lessons, and music throughout the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwcap—O. & P
Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra
Walter T. Holt
Flora McGill Keefer
Durward Bowersox
George H. Wilson
Irving Boernstein
Wardman Park
Moe Baer
Meyer Davis
New Willard Hotel
Palm Room
Peggy Albion
Radio Digest
Associated Press
OKAC
Montreal
KFI
Los Angeles
KFSG
Harriet Youngs
P. Gypsies
Bud Fisher
Happy Players
WEEI
Boston
Bostonians
WFAA
Dallas
WFI
Philadelphia
Moeyer Davin
Chicago
Greig and Kjerult
Sunny Jim
the Kiddies’ Pal
WGBS
New York
Twede Geebee
Talalaeff
WGR
Buffalo
Vincent Lopez Hotel
Statler Dance Orchestra
George Wood Anderson
Robert W. Galligar
Pilgrim Male Quartet
Kurtzmann Piano Company
WGY
Schenectady
Laura J. Thompson
Department of Home Economics
New York State College For Teachers
Harold Anson Bruce
Union College
Tongues of Flame at Loew's Palace with Thomas Meighan
Loew's Palace shows Tongues of Flame featuring Thomas Meighan as Harrington a lawyer and ex army officer who joins against an unscrupulous capitalist to aid Indian rights Lahleet Morceau played by Bessie Love is the half breed who loves Harrington and helps reveal the fraud Eileen Percy appears briefly and the cast includes Burton Churchill John Milton Kate Mythen Cyril Ring Direction by Joseph Henaberg and a side feature A Fat Chance with Walter Hiers plus Lyman Howe's Hodge Podge and Pathe News Admirers cheer Meighan in the lead role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Clark Macfarlane
the Palace
Henry Harrington
Lahleet Morceau
Harrington
Thomas Meighan
Bessie Love
Eileen Percy
Burton Churchill
John Milton
Kate Mayhew
Cyril Ring
Joseph Henaberg
Walter Hiers
Lyman Howe
Pathe News
The House of Youth and The Title Holder Preview
The Central schedules this week opens with The House of Youth starring Jacqueline Logan and Corinne Endicott, adapted from Maud Radford Warren. It also features The Title Holder from the Jack Dempsey fight-and-win series, with Vernon Steele and Malcolm McGregor in supporting roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Youth
Jacqueline Logan
Jack Dempsey
Maud Radford Warren
Corinne Endicott
Malcolm McGregor
Spike Blain
Vernon Steele
Rodney Winston
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Fred Harper
Bobby Wilson
Harper
James Harton
Dew Drop Inn
Bebe Almond
Ella Corbett
Addie Clifford
Miss Williams
Ardience
Congress
Morton
Mayo
Mon Homme
THE
Tivoli
Norma Talmadge
Miss Talmadge
Sir John Carlton
John
America
England
Carlton
Burton Holmes
National
Matterhorn
Zurich
Rigi
Swiss Alps
Zermatt Valley
Burton Helmes
Alps
Rome
Milan
Italy
Mont Blanc
Holmes
Riviera
Loew's
Tal—Navy Yard Station
Washington, D
Naval Press News
KUKA
Kdka Little Symphony Orchestra
Kid Norfolk
Tommy Gibbons
KFQX
Seattle
Mhusic
KGO
Oakland
Np. m.—Educational
KGW
Portlana
KRYW
Wnews
KYW
WAHG
Richmond Hills
N. Y
Midwood Dance Orchestra
Dreggen Twins
Professional School
Estelle Mayer
Charles Wilding
Christchurch
Rye
N.Y
Radio Santa Clara
Anita Hanish
Kay Macrae
Michael Lamberti
Misa Lamberti
Stelle Mayer
Miss Lamberti
Sam Comry
Colonial Royal Dance Orchestra
Radio Santa
Claus of
Westinghouse Philharmonic
Kiddies
Our World
National Industrial Conference Board
Aleppo
Westinghouse Philharmonic Trio
McEnelly
WEAF
Marx Strand
Broadway
Forty-eighth Street
New York City
Romance of the
Lawrence 8. Mayers
Mears & Co
Fred Bacon
Banjo
Ture
Jared van Wagenen, Jr
Aeolian Saxophone Quartet
Walter L. Brooks
Whaz—Troy
Anita R. Maas
Rose Fettig
Fritz Beiermeister
James M. Sheedy
Haig
WIP
G. Calhoon
Fuhrman School of Music
S. Department of Agriculture
WDAR
Daily Almanac
Arcadia Concert Orchestra
Republican ‘Women of Pennsylvania
Dream Daddy
Wwdie
Bernhard Levitow
Commodore Concert Orchestra
Wall Street Journal Review
James A. Drain
American Legion
Waldorf Astoria
Leslie Joy
Jacques Green
Deauville Orchestra
Clark
WLW
Cincinnati
Santa Clara
Andrew
Charles Jacobs
Methodist Book Concern Chorus
Oscar Schansen
Lady Bird
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Crosley Theatrical Review
Coopaut Corporation
Cooper, Orchestra and Quartet
WMAQ
Mothers In Council
Frances M. Ford
J. Elliot Jenkins
Chicago Theater Orga
WMC
Memphis
WOC
Davenport
WOR
Newark
N. J
Bunny
Bunnyland
Ludwig Maurer
Albert Vertchamp
Branford Theater
Ursula Greville
Arthur Murray
Charles M. Koch
Perry and
Russell
WOS
Tefferson City
Fiano
WTAM
Cleveland
Music Box
Philip Spitalny
Victor Recording Orchestra
Willard
Wtam Symphony Orchestra
Tall Cedars Band
Cleveland Forest
Loew's Palace
Carrol Fac
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Seventeenth and H Sts
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Bank OF Brightwood
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