The Strand Showcases Billie Dove In The Night Watch
The Strand previews Billie Dove in The Night Watch a gripping drama with wartime intrigue and a mysterious captain’s wife as the plot centers on a gunned ship officer and a dying crewman. The week features Vitaphone acts including Stewart Brady and Jess Stafford orchestra with Colleen Moore in Oh Kay slated for December 9.
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Lafayette
Strand
Billie Dove
Billie
Victor Recording Orchestra
Vitaphone
Stewart Brady
Harvis
Howe
Val Harris
Ulis
Brady
Jess’ Stafford
Stoke
The
Colleen Moore
National Takes Loretta Young For Another Year
Theatrical gossip notes First National has optioned Loretta Young for another year making her its candidate for the 1929 Wampas Baby Stars. Karl Dane backs a possible divorce, Clara Bow’s next picture Wild Party, and Do lo res del Rio sings in Evangeline marking talkie progress. Richard Barthelmess signs a 40 week, 8 375 weekly deal for three pictures, with Do res and Mary Dugan casting, while Colleen Moore rehearses Synthetic Sin by mail between Oh Kay and The Barker.
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National
Loretta “Young
Young
Ingehue
Richard Barthelmess
First National
Barthelmess
Colleen Moore
Miss Moore
Hollywood studios push color and sound era advances
Paramount hires the Emperor of Los Angeles Chinatown as Tong War technical advisor while Technicolor in Los Angeles cannot meet demand for next year. Metro and MGM plan color sequences in Broadway Melody and The Lucky. Norman Talmadge travels Europe. Mrs Ball shifts from sea rescue to vaudeville. Noah Beery to tour Keith's circuit. A Budapest exhibit showcases ancient medical quackery.
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the Emperor
Los Angeles
Chinatown
Paramount
Technicolor Company
Fox
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
MGM
Picturization of Companionate Marriage Shown at Crystal
At the Crystal theatre a weeklong presentation adapts Judge Ben Lindsey's Companionate Marriage. Betty Bronson stars as a secretary who witnesses old and new marriage ideas, culminating in her attempt at companionate marriage with her employer's son amid dramatic family turmoil. Cast includes Richard Walling Edward Martindale Hedda Hopper Alec B. Francis Sarah Padden and Arthur Rankin.
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Betty Bronson
Richard Walling
Ben Lindsey
the Crystal
Crystal Theatre
Betty
Lfe
Edward Martindale
Hedda Hopper
Alec B. Francis
Sarah Padden
Arthur Rankin
Marrage
Tigers Subdued by Motion Pictures in Siam
San Francisco Nov 29 American motion picture cameramen reduced man eating tigers raids in Siam. Dr Douglas R Collier medical missionary says three years ago 100 deaths yearly in his 20 square mile district. Now only five killed by tigers annually as beasts retreat after being filmed. He traveled five days by horseback to the railroad on his journey here.
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San Francisco
Cal
U.P
Siam
Douglas R. Collier
Collier
Nner
Taft
Moran and Mack to Do Two Talkies at $100,000 per Film
Variety notes Charlie Mack holds both titles with Moran under contract to Mack. They have a proposal from Paramount to make two full length talking pictures at $100,000 each plus a share of profits. Moran and Mack also receive $100,000 yearly from Bell Syndicate for cartoons and $200,000 from phonograph records. Each radio spell by the Two Black Crows adds $2,500. They plan their own show “The Circus Band” after holidays with white principals and 40 colored performers, written by Lucky Roberts and Alex Rogers.
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Mack
Paramount
Bell Syndicate
Variety
Charlie Mack
Lucky Roberts
Alex Rogers
Clara Bow in Three Week Ends at Riviera Theatre
Clara Bow appears at the Riviera for four days in Three Week Ends. The film blends romance and comedy with a dancing girl’s pursuit of wealth and a twist ending. Also on the bill are Movietone news, Paramount news, Zane Grey’s Avalanche, Publix stage acts with Wally and Zella, Harry Downing, Sally Tilden, Jack Bain singing, and a band with On The Road to Mandalay arrangement.
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Riviera Theatre
Elinor Glyn Jove
Harrison Ford
Neil Hamilton
Edythe Chapman
Lucille Powers
Jack Raymond
Clara
Movietone News
England
Paramount News
Riviera
Publix
Wally
Zella
Avalanche
Harry Downing
Sally Tilden
Eee
Jack Bain
Sally
Mandalay
Ralph Jones
Zane Grey
Multiple 1920s film bill at major theaters with star lineup
Tonight at Crystal Palace and Riviera and Strand listings include Bessie Love and Tom Moore in Anybody Here Seen Kelly, Laurel and Finlayson in Love and Hisses, Ranger in The Law of Fear, Bulloney, Yellow Cameo serial, Varsity with Buddy Rogers and Mary Brian, Vitaphone acts, and stage shows. Also Waterloo Boyd Trousdale Players present Gossip with Josephine Generro and Robert Ripley. Tom.
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Bessie Love
Tom Moore
Kelly
New York
Stan Laurel
James Finlayson
Love
Hisses
Palace—Ranger
Wilds
Bulloney
Riviera
Varsity
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Chester Conklin
Mary Brian
Larry Cebeillos
Kitty Doner
Jack Bain
Waterloo
Boyd B
Talkies blamed for Broadway show closures in New York
Advice from New York claims talking motion pictures harmed legitimate theatres on Broadway with 33 of 72 first class venues dark this week. Presidents speeches and radio addresses cited as major factors, though first run picture houses managed some pleasing business despite the competition.
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New York
Broadway
Great White Way
Gov. Smith
Hoover
Ona Crawford May Be Booked for Orpheum Tour
Newspaper reviews from Topeka and Kansas City say Ona Crawford, Waterloo violinist now June Kublek, stars a six week vaudeville act for Gus Sun Ackerman Harris circuit with Maurine Ziegler. Her manager secured a Chicago Dec 19 showing to Orpheum and Keith bookers, potentially leading to Orpheum bookings after Publix tour if satisfied.
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Kansas City
Ona Crawford
Waterloo
June Kublek
Gus Sun-Ackerman Harris
Maurine Ziegler
Chicago
Orpheum
Keith
Backstage at Hollywood by Dorotny Heezog
Hollywood gossip tracks Buddy Rogers pride in a new song Some One to Love to be used as theme for a film with sheet music and a publisher taking three cents per copy. Joe Pasternak climbs from waiter to assistant to director Allan Dwan then Hollywood to a Berlin studio manager post. United Artists and famed stars loom large as cast changes, signings and contracts ripple through the industry.
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Cal
Charles Rogers
Buddy
Joe
Allan’ Dwan
Allan
Meighan
Trish Luck
Swanson
Eddie Sutherland
Greg LaCava
Long Island
Wesley Ruggles
Wes
Carl Baemmie
Germany
Universal
Berlin
Front Page Farce Recalls Chicago Newspaper Roar
Chicago critics review The Front Page play as a sharp satire on journalism. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, former city reporters, stage Hildy Johnson’s dilemma between news and domestic life at the criminal courts building with hearty local laughter and pointed references to pre 1912 Chicago.
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Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
Erlanger Theatre
New York
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Thompson
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Hearst
Herald-Examiner
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Chicago Tribune Today
Ashton Stevens
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G J. Bullet
The
Evening Post
Iowa Boy Directs Orchestra on the Coast
Lynn Cowan, once of this city, has made a name in vaudeville music and film and now directs a snappy western coast orchestra. He has composed popular songs including his latest Dream House.
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Town Falls
Lynn Cowan
Cowan
Boy Who Made Good Coins His Own Words If Dictionary Fails
Iowa Falls residents note Ned Alvord of Hardin County is the publicity manager for the Shubert winter garden tour of Gay Paree in Des Moines. Born in Hardin, Alvord is praised as a word artist who coins terms to fit his show and has long directed publicity for major attractions.
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Shubert
Ned Alvord
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Alvord
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