Richard Dix Stars in The Gay Defender at Rialto
The Gay Defender arrives at Rialto for four days featuring Richard Dix as a dashing bandit hero in historic California, with Thelma Todd as his romantic partner. Fred Kohler leads the villain cast with a supporting lineup including Jerry Mandy and Ernie 5. Also on the bill is Mary Pickford in My Best Girl, paired with Charles Rogers, plus a short comedy and Pathe News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Dix
Rualto
Dix
Cabillero
California Goldfields
Thelma Todd
California
Miss Todd
Thea Paramount Picture School
Fred Kohler
Raymond
Ernie_ 5
Pathe
Mary Pickford
Rialto
United Artists
Best Girl
Charles Rogers
Mary
Sunshine
Bart
Lucien Littlefield
Carmelita Geraghty
Hobart Bosworth
Evelyn Hall
Avonne Taylor
Mack Swain
Fox News
Theatrical Gossip From The Plaza and Rialto Scene
The article lists theater personalities and events from Paden Players and Plaza. It notes Sidney C. Smithy Moore’s death in Hollywood after illness, various actors’ marital and career moves, and changes in local movie theater pricing. It mentions Raymond Hitchcock planning bigger theater ventures, Judge Sabath’s court actions, and actor Jack Pickford’s serious illness.
Strand To Cut Prices and Split Program Weeks
Strand announces reduced admission starting tomorrow and two weekly program changes: Sunday to Wednesday and Thursday to Saturday. First half of next week features The Vanishing Pioneers with Jack Holt and scenes at Zion National Park. Later half showcases Soft Living with Johnny Mack Brown and a Vitaphone sketch program with The Four Aristocrates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. ‘G. Stolle
Vanishing Pioneers
Zane Grey
Jack Holt
Holt
Will Powell
Pred Kohler
Waterloo
Vitaphone
Zion National Park
Utah
Eddie Conrad
Broadway
Marion Eddy
Madge Ellamy
Johnny Mack Brown
Abe Limaan
Wll VE
Haley
McFadden
Lynn Cowan
Strand Theatre Orchestra
Strand
Plaza Theatre Buys Stored Scenery from Majestic
Plaza Theatre purchases thirty seven sets of stage scenery once used in Majeste theatre productions. Stored in the Majestic’s basement, the items are in usable condition with many to be repainted by Plaza artists for future stock productions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plaza
Majestic
Majeste Theatre
Majestic Theatre
Plaza Theatre
Komedy Xarnival Week at Riviera Theatre
Riviera Theatre opens Komedy Xarnival Week with Wallace Beery and R Hatton in The Big Killing and Buster Keaton in College. Two two reel comedies, stage shows Sunday and Thursday, plus acts Emerson Baldwin Brown La Valle jugglers and a must see dog life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Facharad Dix
Thelma ‘Todd
Tipo Theatre
Wallace Beet
Raymond Hatton
Riviera Theatre
Sominrow
Anders Randolph
Mary Brian
Gandner James
Lane Chandler
Paul McAllister
James Mason
Ralph Yearsley
Walter James
Casey Jones
Angel
Emerson & Baldwin
Brown & la Valle
Paramount
Larry Jean Fisher
Marian Eddy in Vitaphone Sketch at Strand on Sunday
Marian Eddy former Waterloo girl now in California appears in a Vitaphone sketch at the Strand as part of a new bill starting Sunday, assisting her husband Eddie Conrad billed as Broadway's favorite comedian. Eddy Henderson family ties and training notes appear as she journeys from Waterloo to San Francisco, with plans for future vaudeville work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian Eddy
Waterloo
California
Vitaphone
Strand
Eddie Conrad
Miss Eddy
The
Birds
Fytic Aéoprano
David B. Henderson
New Lgc
Rishi Street
Marian Henderson
Eddy Conrad
San Francisco
Conrad
New York
Vauderile
Minnapolis
Chicago
Washington
Paris
Berlin
London
Melodrama and Screen Farce at Plaza Four Days
At the Plaza theatre Paden Players present the melodrama Traffic in Souls four days starting Sunday with Roy Jones as the villain and Jean Lowry as the heroine in a Tenderloin house setting. Interpolated musical numbers and strong scenic effects accompany. The program also features a Plaza screen lineup including Wy Sailors Go Wrong and a farce Whose Baby Are You with Howard Paden and James Donseith. Love Hungry screens Thursday with Lois Moran and Lawrence Gray in a Fox picture of light romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Paden
Paden Players
Plaza Theatre
Underworld
Gracye Robertson
Waterloo
Plaza
Sally Phipps
Sammy Cohen
Nick Stuart
Jed McNamara
Lisle
Paden
Plazatheatre
Donseith
James Donseth
Paul Markaroff
Dunseith
Lois Moran
Lawrence Gray
Marjorie Beebe
Doss
Gray
Harold Lloyd in Grandma's Boy at Palace Tomorrow
Harold Lloyd arrives at the Palace to present Grandma's Boy a comedy praised as his funniest and most dramatic. Mildred Davis stars as the sweetheart with a supporting cast including Charles Stevenson and Anna Townsend. Fred Newmeyer directs, Hal Roach writes, and the bill also features Fabries and Fox News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Lloyd
Grandma’s Bay
Mildred Davis
Charles Stevenson
Anna Townsend
Dick Sutherland
Noah Young
Fred Newmeyer
Hal "Roach
Lem Taylor
Jean Havez
Fabries
iFox News
Western and stage bill mix at Palace Plaza Rialto Strand
Theatre listings show Ted Wells in Greased Lightning at Palace with Betty Galdwell and a Fa lates spoof, Paden Players in Clouds and Sunshine with Howard Paden, opening night on screen at Rialto The Big Parade with Gilbert and Adoree, Riviera hosts Mad Hour with Sally O Neill and Larry Kent, Strand features The Missing Link with Syd Chaplin and vaudeville acts, plus The Movie Man and Those Hot Tamales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonight Palace
Ted Wells
Betty Galdwell
Falates
Fox News
Reel- Plaza
Paden Players
Howard Paden
Claire Windsor
Jobn Bowers
Rialto
Lawrence Stallings
John Gilbert
Renee Adoree
Riviera
Elinor
Paramount News
Syd Chaplin
Africa
Vila
Earl Burnett
Charles Rogers
Billy and
Elsa Newell
Beaton a campus boy wins praise amid student scorn
Ann Cornwall heads the cast in Bullying Into Broadway, a stage comedy about Blunder and trickery on campus. The show features a romance amid the pranks, with a lively climax and strong female lead as the principal actress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatom
Ann Cornwall
Jones directs siege band amid theft at Cedar River park
Police report a theft near Cedar River park as two teens from 312 Twelfth Street West lost a basket with two purses and dresses. One purse held 28 cents and the other 35 cents. Witnesses, high school aged girls, saw a man watching them. A later note says the basket’s contents were missing and a stage show planned for Thursday features Lois Benson and Casey Very Definitely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois
Casey
Lois Benson
Waterloo Endures Record Heat After Torrid Day
After the hottest day of the summer, Waterloo faced another sweltering morning. Government thermometers recorded 97 as the previous night’s high and 78 the overnight low, with the new day starting around 81 and rising to 89 by midmorning. A southwest breeze tempered the heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Tam
Waterlogans to Nashua for Big Four fair day events
An extra coach will run from Nashua at 9:25 a.m. to carry Waterlogans to the Big Four fairgrounds for Nashua Commercial Club’s all day celebration. Fifteen thousand are expected. a baseball game between Alla Vista and local shops, races, floats, a parade, and a speech by Mayor Waite are planned, with return trains by 4:27 p.m. or 10:30 p.m. from Nashua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois’ Gerittzal
Nashua
Central Shops
Mlenic
Alla ‘Vista
Waite
Frank Pins
Waterloo
Campers Shot by Mistake Theory Advanced
A police theory of mistaken identity was advanced in the shooting of five campers here last night. Dr. George M. Blight, 59, education department head at Lake Forest University, and his son Virgil, 25, were struck by a gunman who fired into their tent as they slept. doctors said Dr Blight may die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estes Fark
Cole
George M. Blight
Department of Education
Lake Forest University
Virgil
Slight
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10WA
Richard Die
Rialto ‘ Mestros
Alexander
Electric Park
Ayer
Sidney'c
Smithy Moon
Hollywood
Smith
James City
Bounelmen
Bub
College
Raymond Hitchcock
Toledo
Indianapolis
Midwest
Sabath
Din Gn
Mys
Helen Cressman Carr
Alexander. Carr
Potash & Perlmitter
Audrey “Maple Griffiths
George E. Griffiths
Thomas Lynch
Jack Pickford
St. Vincent Hospital
Pickford
Lottie Pickford
Elinor Marshall
Sunny Blonde
Musive
the Plaza
Richmond
McCall Bridge
the Woods Theatre
Pantages House
Denver
Dallas
Tex
Gladys Harvey
Strand Theatre
Fiousa
Stolte
Ulara Bow
Lon Chaney
Russell B. McCox
Berkell Players
Waterloo Theatre
Zanesville
Columbus
Thrace
Sunday Tack
William Powe
Sally Blaine
Wieeks
Jack
Beery & Hatton
Buster Keaton
Tip Yop Club
Palace
Theatre
Florence Mardy
Thorebred
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Neve
Mardy
Don
Ae Hagerbeck-Wallace
Chesterwond
Queen
Bonnie
Wichita
Yellow Jacket
Miss Mardo
Rae-Bailey
Faith Ryan
Pay la Rue
Gene McDonald
Dorothea Johnsen
Clyde Cook
Julia Ann
Alice _Knowlon
Follies Fame
O. Folk
Wil Carty Rollickers
Watterloo
Commercial St
Illinois Central Shopcrafts
Towa
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