Colleen Moore in Oh Ray at Strand Theatre
Colleen Moore stars in the musical comedy Oh Ray at the Strand for a week. The film showcases her as a saucy English flapper who ends up in America aboard a rainboat in a bathing suit and becomes entangled in romantic mixups with Ford Sterling, amid a strong supporting cast and Vitaphone segments Solomon's Children and Tex McLeod in A Rope and a Story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colleen Moore
Strand Theatre
Oh Ray
Waterloo
Colleen
England
America
Ford Sterling
Alan Hale
Lawrence Gray
Vitaphone
Solomon’s
Hugh Bennett
Tex McLeod
Tim‘blin
É& Raymond
Strand
Theatrical Gossip From Plaza to New York
The piece notes Alexander Frank, once with Plaza and Rialto, now in Norfolk on a weeklong New York trip. It catalogs theater news, coffin ads, and London and Los Angeles film industry moves including Jolson, Warner Bros, and selections in Balaban Katz circuits. It mentions Greta Garbo, Ruth Haage, Alberta Haynes, and Ethel Barrymore with varied industry updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Frank
Plaza
Rialto
Norfolk, Neb
Aweek
New York
Greta Garbo
Sweden
Kungsholm
Stockholm
Miss Garbo
Culver City
Theatres Show Sinners in Love and Hello Cheyenne Billings
Crystal theater features Sinners in Love a comedy drama with Olive Borden Huntley Gordon and Senna Owen along with Bobby Vernon Hold Em Cowboy and Pal ace Tom Mix Hello Cheyenne western adventure with Daryl Lincoln support plus Lady Lion and Fox news reel Riviera presents Avalanche with Jack Holt Doris Hill Bad anova and Zane Grey western adventure romance two Vitaphone acts Florence Brady Burns and Kissen Paramount news On stage Jack Bain and band Slide for Life Earl hart Brothers Meehan Newman four Vitaphone acts Us Clark Stewart Brady Val Harris Ann Frowe Jesse Stafford orchestra news reel Waterloo Boyd B Trousdale Players present The Wild Westotts three act comedy drama Josephine Generro Robert Ripley headlining with others in stock company
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riviera
Avalanche
Jack Holt
Doris Hill
Badanova
Florence Brady
Burns& Kissen
Paramount News
Jack Bain
Dick Hoshi
Slide For Life
Earhart Brothers
Meehan& Newman
Billie Dove
Night Watch
Paul Lukas
Stewart Brady
Us & Clark
Val Harris
Ann Frowe
Jesse Stafford
Waterloo
Boyd B. Trousdale Players
Dramatic Stock Company
Wild Wescotts
Westcotts
Josephine Generro
Robert Ripley
Film Notes Mention New Features and Cast at Strand
The article reviews Hit of the Show and Outcast with mixed praise. Rex Beach’s The Mating Call is produced by Howard R. Hughes starring Thomas Meighan Evelyn Brent and Renee Adoree, described as vivid and tense. The Strand plans a synchronized Our Gang comedy on Christmas alongside Vitaphone and a feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Beach
Howard R. Hughes
Thomas Meighan
Evelyn Brent
Renee Adoree
Strand
Strand Theatre
Home Towners at Riviera with All Talkie Cast
George M. Cohan's The Home Towners arrives at the Riviera for four days featuring Richard Bennett Robert McWade Doris Kenyon and Gladys Brockwell in the first all talkie stage production adaptation. Also on bill Mississippi Mud Three Trees Six Harlem Rockets Wilma Banky in The Awakening plus Movietone news Paramount News Vitaphone acts and band program.
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George M. Cohan
Warner Brothers
Riviera Theatre
Richard Bennett
Robert McWade
Doris Kenyon
Gladys Brockwell
McWade
Main Street
Park Avenue
New York
Cohan
Robert Edezon
John Miljan
Vera Lewis
Stanley Taylor
Talking Pictures
Movietone News
Paramount News
Riviera
Jack Bain
Joe
Ralph Jones
Harlem Rockets
Jack Hates
Dot Reid
Ruth Haaga
Wilma Banky
Tom Mix Stars in Hello Cheyenne at Palace Today
Tom Mix, famed Western ace, appears as a telephone lineman in Hello Cheyenne showing today and Sunday at the Palace. The Arizona-set thriller, directed by Gene Forde for Fox, features Daryl Lincoln and Jack Baston with a strong supporting cast and a comedy short Lady Lion plus a Fox news reel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Mix
Palace Theatre
Cheyenne
Mix
Tony
Arizona
Daryl Lincoln
Jack Baston
Joseph Girard
al St. John
Martin Faust
William Caress
Gene Forde
Fox Films
Lady Lion
Fox News
Reporter in New Newspaper Play Says No Money in Acting
Ward Moorehouse of the Sun comments on acting earnings. Variety notes his claim there is no money in acting. He joins The Gentlemen of the Press with Russell Crouse, whose habit of eating a rotten snack caused his departure. Moorehouse earns 850. Equity takes 19, an old friend chips in 20, and the rest comes from a crap game.
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Ward Moorehouse
the Sun
Variety
Ward
Russell Crouse
The
Evening Post
Crouse
Moorehouse
Equity
Steve Drama Of Movie Folks At Waterloo Theatre
The Boyd B Trousdale Players present Steve a three act comedy drama by Robert Dempster at Waterloo theatre for four days about a film crew on Pleasure Island off Maine. Steve a movie director blends actors with islanders to make a picture and exposes island life. Also Saintly Hypocrites and Honest Sinners returns for three days with L Tucile LaValtiere as Sister Higgins and Tom Post in a strong supporting role.
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Steve
Robert Dempster
Waterloo Theatre
Boyd B. Trousdale Players
Maine
Eugene O’brien
Pleasure Island
Moving: Picture Company
Rita Norton
Spot
Christine
Roberg Brown
Boston
Reeves Brown
Trousdale
Waterloo
Tucile LaValtiere
Sister Higgins
Miss LaValliere
Backstage Hollywood Gossip Trails Buddy Rogers Family
Hollywood gossip details Charles Buddy Rogers and his younger brother B H Jr. from Olathe Kansas. Buddy, 23, pursued acting after Kansas University while B H, 19, plans film work after college. The piece notes their family, residences, and social circle in Hollywood with several noted names and brief anecdotes.
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Dorothy Herzog
Premier Syndicate
Hollywood
Cal
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Buddy
Spain
B. H
Italy
Olathe Central High School
University of Kansas
Paramount School of Acting
Rogers
Olathe
Kan
Kansas City
Ted Brownings
Malibou
Robert"z. Leonard
Gertrude Olmstead
Evelyn Brent
Harry D. Edwards
Priscilla Dean
Priscilla
Les Arnold
Ralph Lewis
Harry Beaumont
Winifred Westover Hart
Community Tree Planned by Hawkeye Club
Hawkeye Iowa December 8 a community Christmas tree will be erected by the Community club with president H J Williamson appointing F B Boeckenheuer and Walter Belschner to supervise the feature Relatives here have been informed of the death at Minneapolis Minnesota Saturday of Eugene Beebe a former buttermaker at Bethel creamery for several years Surviving is his widow Mrs Mary Clark Beebe who accompanied the body here for burial
Divorce Ends Opera Power Couple Romance in Nogales
Mme Frances Alda, famed Metropolitan Opera prima donna, won a divorce from Guilio Gatti Casazza in Nogales San Mexico after their 18 year marriage. The separation marks the end of a long high-profile alliance in opera management and star artistry.
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Nogales
San
Mexico
Mme
Frances Alda
Metropolitan Opera Company
Guilio Gatti-Casazza
Film Actress Hamp ton Triumphs In Opera Debut
New York reports chronicle Hope Hampton, Texas native and actress, overcoming wealth and industry doubt to become a featured artist for the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company 1928 29 season. Her path from film star to sopranos triumph is marked by critics praise and personal success.
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New York
Li.n
Texas
Hope Hampton
Philadelphia Grand Opera Company
Miss Hampton
Jules Brulatour
Princess
Rue de la Paix
Howe Hampton
Dallas
Sinners in Love Weekend Show at Crystal Theatre
Crystal Theatre presents the prize-winning True-Story Magazine feature Sinners in Love this weekend, starring Olive Borden with Huntly Gordon and Senna Owen. The program includes Daphene Pollard in comedy relief and Bobby Vernon in Hold 'em Cowboy, promising drama romance glamour and nightlife scenes.
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Huntly Gordon
The
Crystal Theatre
Crystal
Story In Pictures
Olive Borden
Huntley Gordon
Senna Owen
Bobby Vernon
True-Story Magazine
Daphene Pollard
Comedienne
Woman Dragging Suitcase Up Boston Hill With Skates
A woman in Boston was seen inching a heavy suitcase up a steep hill while sliding a pair of roller skates beneath it and tucking an umbrella handle into the crook as she pulled the bag along the sidewalk.
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Boston
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Jetta Gondal
Paramounters
Maurice Chevalier
Hai Roach
Raymond Hitchcock
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro
Hitchcock
Christian Endeavor World
Will Hays
Andrew Phillips
Hays
Honey Brown
King Vidor
Nina McKinney
Blackbirds
Mary Pickford
Johnny Mack Brown
Coquette
Miss Pickford
Chicago
Orpheum
Balaban & Katz
Balaban & Katy
Josephine Baker
Paris
Berlin
Josie
Ruth Haage
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Ruth
Alberta Haynes
Iowa
Alta Stimm
Mabel Watters
Ethel Barrymore
Massachusetts Hospital
Joe E. Brown
Presen
Fe Theatre
Palace
Tation
Init
Corrinne Griffith
Liberty Magazine
Tome Towners
Riviera Bill
Movie Folks New
Dempster
Clara Bow
Clara
San Francisco
Glendale
Bebe Daniels
Lila Lee
le Montmartre
Bebe
Pauline
Garon
Polly
Virginia Valli
Kats
Magnin’s
Ted Browning
Lon Chaney
Chaney
Joe Cook
Hawkeye
Jules‘ Brulatour
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