Greta Garbo at Plaza in The Divine Woman and vaude acts
Waterloo Evening Courier reports Greta Garbo arrives at Plaza for four days in The Divine Woman with Lars Hanson and a strong supporting cast. The bill includes Pickard's Chinese Syncopators, Oscar and King, and Ralph Seabury. A special high school program features A High School Hero and The Collegians two-reel romance Siding Home with West High Band concert at 8:30 p m and 3 p m matinee. Emmett O Mera and Melisse Ballow perform in a concert program.
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Greta Garbo
Plam
Montmartre
Althe
Foreign Legion
Lars Hanson
Lillian Gish
Cesare Gravina
Paulette Deval
Jean de Brisac
Vaudesville
Pickard
Oscar and
King
Gene Conrad
Ralph Seabury
Plaza
Waterloo
Sally Phipps
Wampas
Shiek
Charley Paddock
Nick Shutart
William N. Bailey
Wade Boteler
Brandon Hurst
David Rollins
Collegians
Siding Home
West High Band
Frank
West High
Ralph Pronk
Emmett O'Mara
U.S
Leviathan
Boston Opera Company
Melisse Ballow
O'Mera
Al Jolson Returns to Strand With The Jazz Singer Run
Waterloo patrons will see The Jazz Singer continue at the Strand through Sunday, shown day and date with New York's Roxy. The film follows Jakie Rabinowitz, a cantor's son, as he rises in jazz and love while New York's East Side bustle plays out. Vitaphone vaudeville features including Tuning In, Non Support, and Gene Morgan's orchestra Shuffle dance are also slated.
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Waterloo
al Jolson
Strand
Roxy Theatre
New York City
New York
Ufe
Broadway
Great East Side
Jakie Rabinowitz
Burr McIntosh
Gene Morgan
Morgan
Lim
Theatrical Gossip and Film News From the Era
The column catalogs Hollywood figures and theater life with anecdotes about George Bancroft buying a home from Joseph M. Schenck, a gas explosion injuring a cowboy actor, Broadway theatres dark during Holy Week, and various industry notes. It mentions Marceline Day joining George K Arthur and Karl Dane in Brotherly Love, Judge Ben Lindsey’s Companionate Marriage headed to production, a musician plan for a dynamite shot, Thelma Todd’s injury, Darienne Dove’s poisoning, and Thelmas Todd’s engagement to James Bush amid party circles.
Harold Lloyd in Speedy at Riviera Four Days
Harold Lloyd stars in Speedy coming to the Riviera for four days with Ann Christy Bert Woodruff and Brook Benedict in supporting roles. The plot centers in New York with Consy Island scenes, mixing romance, comedy and action as Lloyd outwits thieves saves a streetcar line and wins his love. Casey Jones returns to the stage with songs and vaudeville acts alongside Lang and Vock Toots Novello and May Wynn. The Riviera bill features Milton Silly in Burning Taylight and more acts to close the Easter program.
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Harold Lloyd
Riviera
Ann Christy
Bert Woodruff
Brooki Benedict
Speedy
Lloyd
Antwitthe
New York
Consy Island
Casey” Jones
Lang and Vock
Toots Novello
May Wynn
Paramount News
Dan Ross
Casey" Jones
Milton Silly
Milton
Jack
On Screen Week At Theaters With Westerns And Comedies
A roundup of film offerings across theaters Crystal Palace Plaza Rialto Riviera Strand and more features Brassed Knuckles with Monte Blue and Betty Bronson a western thriller The Law of The Range Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford Two Dainty Youths with W C Fields and Cissy Fitzgerald The Jaz Singer starring Al Jolson with vitaphone orchestra and vaudeville acts plus The Bogie Call Jackie Coogan and The Heart of a Follies Girl Billie Dove with comedy news reels and organ accompaniment.
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Crystal
Monte Blue
Betty Bronson
Palace
Tim McCoy
Joan Crawford
Smith
Fox News
Rialto
Jackie Coogan
Claire Windsor
Herbert Raw Hinson
Ivo
Pathe News
Riviera
Billie Dove
Paramount Comedy
Jay Mills
Eddie Mathews
Dee-Lack
Bean
Frohman
Gary
Dan Ross
Strand
al Jolson
Jaz Singer
Vitaphone Orchestra
al Billed
Vitaphone
Gene Morgan
Burr McIntosh
Veteran English actor Trevor in lunacy case. Warner testifies
Los Angeles reports reveal Hy Warner, Trevor's friend and co star, testified that the veteran actor Trevor suffers delusions of wealth while financially strapped. Trevor, 51, once India's champion athlete and later a US stage manager turned Hollywood star, faces a lunacy complaint tied to an alleged check writing scheme.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Norman
Trevor
India
Avatar
London
United States
Comedy
New York
Hollywood
Jackie Coogan in The Bugle Call at Rialto Today
Jackie Coogan stars in The Bugle Call at Rialto, alongside Claire Windsor and Herbert Rawlinson. The western cavalry tale centers on a captain's son torn between a Washington-born stepmother and his late mother's memory, with thrilling Indian attacks and pathos, plus a comedy Dates for Two and Pathe News.
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Jackie Coogan
Rialto
Claire Windsor
Herbert Rawlinson
Jackie
Washington
Jeanne Eagels Suspended and Fined by Equity
New York April 7 Jeanne Eagels stage star was suspended until September 1, 1929 and fined two weeks wages after failing to appear in St Louis for a run of Her Cardboard Lover. She previously missed Milwaukee Boston and Brooklyn shows. Action brought by producers A H Woods and Gilbert Muller. Grand Mitchell presided, Eagels pleaded illness.
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New York
Jeanne Eagels
Actors’ Equity Association
St. Lows
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Boston
Brooklyn
A. H. Woods
Gilbert Muller
Grand Mitchell
Equity
Miss Engels
Plaza Shifts Program Days to Sunday and Thursday
Manager Alexander Frank of the Rialto and Plaza theatres announces Plaza opening dates shifting to Sundays and Thursdays. The change aligns with Orpheum schedules from Des Moines Sioux City Omaha and Minneapolis, allowing consecutive bookings of bigtime acts while some high priced acts declined Plaza bookings due to lost days at both ends of the week.
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Alexander Frank
Rialto
Plaza Theatres
Plaza
Orpheum
Orpheum Theatres
Des Monines
Sioux City
Omaha
Minneapolis
Execution scene cut from Cavell picture shown in London
London April 7. The film Dawn depicting nurse Edith Cavell who was shot by Germans during the war will be exhibited at the London Palladium for an indefinite period. The first showing was Thursday. The execution scene has been deleted, it is understood.
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London
UAR
Edith Cavell
Fred Stone Luncheon Guest at White House
Washington April 7 Fred Stone famed stage comedian and his daughter Dorothy were luncheon guests yesterday of President Coolidge at the White House in Washington D C.
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Fred Stone
White House
Washington, D. C
U.A
Dorothy
President Coolidge
You Cannot Escape Your Obligations
The ownership of an automobile involves moral obligation to deal justly with the injured. A fist settlement may cost $10,000 to $25,000, so you buy automobile Insurance to protect yourself. Travelers settles a large percentage of automobile liability claims amicably, out of court, to the satisfaction of both parties.
Brass Knuckles with Monte Blue Crystal feature
Brass Knuckles a Warner Bros. melodrama starring Monte Blue and Betty Bronson opens at Crystal theatre for a three day run directed by Lloyd Bacon The plot centers on a crook who cares for a motherless daughter and falls in love with her Cast includes Willan Russell Georgie Stone Paul Panzer and Jack Curtis The Crystal also screens The Silver Slave with Irene Rich plus a come romance and news reel The Tuesday bill adds a two reel comedy and news reel.
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Warner Bros
Monte Blue
Betty Bronson
Lloyd Bacon
Crystal Theatre
Crook Ife
Jove
Blue
Betty
Willan Russell
Georgie Stone
Paul Panzer
Jack Curtis
Irene Rich
Audrey Ferris
Holmes Herbert
John Millan
Carroll Nye
Forest Fire Thrill in The Law of the Range at Palace
Tim McCoy stars in The Law of the Range showing today and Sunday at the Palace theatre with Rex Lease. A forest fire used as atmosphere burned over 3,000 acres as McCoy and Lease rode through flames their clothes burned and eyebrows singed while director William Wigh deemed it enough. Joan Crawford leads the female role in this Texan romance production.
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Tim McCoy
Th Palace Theatre
McCoy
Rex Lease
the Solitaire Kid
William Wigh
Joan Crawford
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