Lights of New York at Riviera Promises First All Talkie
Waterloo Mirror notes Riviera theater in Waterloo will show Lights of New York for four days, the first all talking motion picture. Cast includes Belene Costello Cullen Landis Glaydis Brockwell and Mary Carr with Vitaphone sound and symphony accompaniment. Program also features Movietone news, stage numbers, and vaudeville acts.
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Riviera Theatre
New York
Chicago
Broadway
Heine Costello
Belene Costello
Cullen Landis
Glaydis Brockwell
Mary Carrand
Eugene Pallette
Movietone Talking
Lake Hopatong
Parris
Yan & Schenck
Fort Wood
Paramount News
Raymond
Casey Jones
Hank
the Mule
Willis
Lows Planer
Ralph Jones
Lee Riviera
Mary Astor
Lloyd Hughes
Al’g. Barnes
Alice White
Yola D'Avril
A. Fox
Chick Sales
Paramont News
The Enemy at Rialto Shines For Lillian Gish At Rialto Four Days
Lillian Gish stars in The Enemy a war drama from Metro Goldwyn Mayer opening at the Rialto for four days. Ralph Forbes George Fawcett and others provide a strong cast as a tragic Austrian bride entangled in wartime hatred and hardship. Also showing Two Arabian Knights with Mary Astor and Louis Wolheim a postwar comedy about two soldiers escaping a prison camp and unfolding adventures in Arabia.
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Lilian Gish
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Rialto Theatre
Channing Pollock
Paul
Miss Gish
Ralph Forbes
George Fawcett
Frank Currier
Polly Moran
Kari Dane
Fritzi Ridgway
John Peters
Billy Kent Schaeffer
Fred Nible
W William Boyd
Mary Astor
Louis Wolheim
Rialto
W.daingerfield Phelps
Peter McGaffney
Arabia
James Z. O'Donohue
Wallace Smith
Omar Khayyam
Anis Sin Adhazi
Tom Mix Star In Silver Valley At Palace
Fort Worth audiences will see Tom Mix and his horse Tony in Silver Valley at the Palace this weekend. William Fox presents the western adventure with a capable supporting cast and strong action and scenic effects. The program also includes Charlie Chaplin’s comedy The Adventurer and Fox newsreels showing world events.
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Fortoday
Sundey
William Fox
Tom Mix
Tony
Tom
Si Valley
Palace Pictures
Charlie Cheplin
Fox News
Paris
World Honours 50 000 Movie Box Offices Milestone
The world has grown to over 50 000 picture houses, with about 20 500 in the United States and 19 775 in Europe. Far East hosts 3 700, India 2 000, Africa 490, Near East 751. More than 1 500 feature films and thousands of reels drive worldwide cinema. adults account for three quarters of daily patrons. over 200 000 miles of film are manufactured in the United States.
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United States
Europe
Iada
Africa
Variety
United Stars
Queen Marie to Enter Movies in Her Story
Queen Marie of Roumania plans to enter films in a new project titled Magic Doll. A literary representative in Roumania is coordinating plans and a cablegram from London confirms arrangements, with details evolving as the project progresses.
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Queen Marie
Magic Doll
Los Angeles
Cal
Giant in Chaplin's The Circus Former Resident of Osage
Fragmentary items mention a large figure connected to Chaplin's The Circus and a former Osage resident. Details are garbled, but reference to Charley Chanin's Circus and family ties to Mr and Mrs Sanford on Bap Sarr wire appear, with unclear timelines.
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Chaplin
the Circus
Osage
Osece
Charley Chanin
Saaniey Dat
Cole
Sanford
Lin Osage
The Earl Ross Pilvers in Coloma and LA gossip
Theatrical and picture gossip notes several industry items. The Earl Ross Pilvers settle business in Coloma amid breach of promise claims against The Chavier H. Chris. Audrey Ferris to star in Fanty Bag gage with Scott Dunlap directing. Mitzi renews Shuberts contract and hits road in Lovely Lady. George Wilson serves probationary jail time after intoxication. Ames plots Sunday screenings while M G M seeks dwarfs for Mysterious Island. Barbara film property news and LA auction of seven acres.
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M-G-M
Los Angeles
Lane
Ta Barbara
Palace Theatre Show Tonight with Tom Mix and Chaplin
Theatre listings feature PALACE presenting Tom Mix and his horse Tony in Silver Valley, also Chaplin's The Adventurer. PLAZA screens Breaking Into Society with Miss Lille, plus vaudeville acts. RIALTO offers Resurrection and Talstoy drama, with Dolores del Rio. RIVIERA shows State Street Sadie and a Vitaphone picture. STRAND highlights Happiness Ahead with Colleen Moore, Edmund Lowe. Florentine Choir and Mayer Evans perform musical sketches and news reels.
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Palace
Tom Mix
Tony
Silver Valley
Tomance
Fox News
PLAZA
Margaret Lille
Miss. Lillie
Empire State Quartet
George Meeker
Marjorie Beebe
Rialto
Red Laneque
Dolores del Rio
Prince
Riviera
Vitaphone
Conrad Nags
Myrna Loy
Prook
Casey Jones
Lum & White
Fink & Apres
Helen McFarland
Movietone Sketch
Paramount News
Colleen Moore
Edmund Lowe
Vitaphone Arts
Florentine
Mayer & Evans
Earl Burnell
Wobart Bosworth
Broadway ShoWa Goes West on Vocafilm Routes
New York report says Vocafilm will reproduce stage productions by top producers including A H Woods Studerts William A Brady and Arthur Hammerstein. Six weeks to start with Fay Bainter Glenn Hunter in Jealousy as first production. Plans target small cities, cost about 39400, two weeks to record, Equity cautious on contracts.
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New York
A. H. Woods
the Studerts
William A. Brady
Arthur Hammerstein
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Detroit
Vecafilm Corporation’ of America
Woods
Fay Bainter
Glenn Hunter
Florence Reed
Actors’ Equity Association
Alaskan School Has Bath Tub in Remote Chitina
Cordova reports a government school in Chitina uses a classroom bath tub. Miss Catherine Kirklin, the teacher, defends the setup, noting Indians once forgot how to wash, while army presence grows around the tub. She claims Indians might object only from long-standing conditions, not sanitation needs.
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Cordova
Chitlan
Tron Trail
Catherine Kirklin
Chitina
Kirklin
Cedar Rapids Teen Wins Iowa Personality Girl Title
Alberta Haynes, 18, of Cedar Rapids representing Jows City, won the Iowa 1928 personality girl title after blues singing and a gay smile impressed judges. She was chosen from 72 district winners and earns an eight week contract to appear in Iowa's 14 Publix theatres. Dorothy Fluke of Chariton received honorable mention.
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Des Moines
Alberta Haynes
Cedar Rapids
Jows City
Iowa
Gay
Publix
Dorothy Fluke
Chariton
Spain to Preserve Moorish Fortress Alcazaba
Almeda Spain Aug 4 1P1 The Spanish government is asked to declare the ancient Alcazaba fort a national monument. Built by Moors in 773 on a Phoenician site it withstood capture until Alfonso III starved its garrison. It is viewed as a perfect Moorish architectural example with a covered passage linking the great tower to the city center for Moorish leaders to flee with their harems.
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Almeda
Spain
Alcazaha
Alfonso III
Restaurant owner who once was broke feeds jobless men
Yankton South Dakota August 4. D H Pratt a restaurant owner who once lacked work feeds all jobless men who come to his place. A window sign promises food to the broke and Pratt says he helps 20 to 24 men daily as harvest season draws workers. He provides extra tasks to earn money for basics like shirts and cigarettes when possible.
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Yankton
D. H Pratt
Pic
Brath
South Dakota
Pratt
Lapm
Tampa Postmistress Sees Highest US Pay
Elizabeth Barnard of Tampa becomes the highest paid postmistress in the United States. Widow of Ulysses Grant Barnard, she started as a relief stamp clerk earning four dollars weekly, then advanced in the post office and was appointed postmistress in 1923 by President Jardine, a position she has held since.
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Tampa
Fla
Mits
Elizabeth Barnard
National Federation of Bussess
United States
Ulysses Grant Barnard
Jardine
Gorilla feature at Strand theatre lights up week
The Strand previews The Gorilla from Ralph Spence for the first four days next week with Charlie Murray as Mulligan the comedy detective and a strong cast including Alice Day Fred Kelsey Walter Pidgeon and May McAvoy The program also features Abe Lyman and his orchestra with Jimmy Ray and a Vitaphone lineup including The Little Snob and Bert Swor in A Colorful Sermon plus The Four Aristocrats performing songs and numbers.
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Strand Theatre
Ralph Spence
Charlie Murray
Mulligan
Garrity
Fred Kelsey
Alice Day
Tully Marshall
Claude Gillingwater
Walter Pidgeon
Abe Lyman
Jimmy Ray
Hhe
Jimmy
Ray
League Against Rats Forms in Geneva Officials Wear Hats
In Geneva on August 4, officials tire of saluting and hat tipping. A League against rats within the League of Nations has formed to attend meetings with hats off. A similar push aims to end handshakes at official gatherings.
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Geneva
League Against Rats
League of Nations
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Cullen Lanels
Bill
Tase
F Dones
Sunny Boy From
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Riery Theatre
Paince
Amurroy
Fred Kelly
Eas
Nercélina
Finza Theatre
Lillian Gish and
Halon Forbes
Risito Theatre
Lillian
World Now
Earl Ross Pilvers
Dramatic Tewn Company
Coloma
Sen
Chavier H. Chris
Movin Pice
Lure Progurer
Aive Musich
Aner Tives
Emmietsters
Ff Ulrile
Heen
Piny
Lie
Emmetsburg
Sampany Yar Fekly
Yen Scak
Omiismans
Sion
Warner Brothers
Scott R. Dunlap
Audrey Ferris
Mitzi
The
Shubberts
George Wilson
Ames
Brooks
Louise Brooks
Miss Brooks
Vocafilm
Lillian Leitzel
Alfredo Cordi
Murray Feature
Tran
Clyde Cook
Helly and Barnum
May
McAvoy
Maizie Banks
Consy
Jim
Husky Barker
Walt Keen
Maizie
Bert Swor
Swor
Moran
Mack
Frank Moulan
Riter
Waterloo
America
Aimazeds Patey
Wonderl Tstes
Orda Ace
Monster Worden
Schuneman
Dmig
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