No No Nora and Plaza Variety Show Opens Week
The Paden Players led by Howard Paden bring No No Nora to Plaza Sunday in a musical comedy farce about a man who must tell no lies for a day to win a wager and the girl he loves. The program includes The Spanish Fantasy by Brandeaux Daudet with Jean Lowry and the Paden Peaches dance act. Two film features follow with Tea For Three starring Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle and Pajamas with Olive Borden scheduled for Thursday at the Plaza.
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Plaza Theatre
Paden Players
Howard Paden
Nora
New York
Hood
Brandeaux & Daudet
Jean Lowry
Brandeaux 4
Doudet
Edith Payton
Pat'Mere Brandeaux
Paden
Toby
Dolly
Plaza
Lewi Cody
Aileen Pringle
Owen Moore
Cody
Moore
Olive Borden
Lawrence Gray
Jerry Miley
John J. Clark
Canadian Rockies
Theatrical Gossip On Detroit Civic Theatre Plan
The article notes Jessie Bonstelle turning her company into a Detroit civic theatre with salaries and non profit aims for surplus benefiting schoolchildren. It also covers Cobwebs in Los Angeles, First National star contracts for Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, Dorothy Janis joining Kit Carson Returns, New York talking pictures shifting talent east, Mae Murray returning to live act after Publix circuit, Pathe directing Ernest Flynn film with Taurel Hardy and Buster, Hatton negotiating for independent work, and MGM’s nine features for 1928-29 Palm program including Excess Baggage and Beau Broadway among others.
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Jessie Bonstelle
Bonstelle
Detroit
First National
Dorothy Mackaill
Jack Mulhall
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Jammer Cruze
Bellamy
Jannines Star in Careet of Gin at Riviera Theatre
Emil Jannings headlines The Street of Sin at the Riviera Theatre for four days, with Fay Wray as the Salvation Army lassie and Olga Bakinaova as the sinner. The production recreates a London tenement street in vivid detail, featuring a cast handpicked for brutal and varied facial types.
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Jannines Star IN ‘Careet OF
Riviera Theatre
Emil Jannings
East Limehouse
London
Jannings
Salvation Army
Fay Wray
Jassie
Olga Bak-innova
Moscow Art Theatre
George Kotsonaras
John Gough
Connecticut
Ernest Johnson
Clemence
Dancers in Hippodrome Revue at Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Dancers Kitty Huyes Dorothy Underhiyg and Lea Fonisine lead a sprightly trio in the Winter Garden revue with 60 cast members for one week at the Hippodrome. A large stage is installed to handle scenery and lighting, supporting a cast including Clarice Catlett Eddie Mathews Buddy Whelan Arkin and Dean Clarence Backus Alfredo and Maxine Evelyn Harney and Tom Mills. Proceeds go to the 1928 exposition.
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Kitty Huyes
Dorothy Underhiyg
Lea Fonisine
Hippodrome
Dairy Cattle Congress
Hippodromr
Amplenz
Clarice Catlett
Songland
Eddie Mathews
Mitai
Buddy Whelan
Arkin & Dean
Clarence Backus
Alfredo & Maxine
Diagilieff
Evelyn Harney
Tom Mills
Waterloo
Dairy Cattle Congress Management
Hoot Gibson Stars in Painted Ponies at Palace
Hoot Gibson arrives at the Palace for today and Sunday showings of Painted Ponies directed by Reaves Bass ton from John J. Ham Jin's story. The cowboy hero performs daring feats on bucking horses and helps lead a rodeo inspired tale set partly at the Saugus, California rodeo with Ethlyne Clair and a cast including William, as the spirited carousel in the plot adds charm.
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Hoot Gibson
Palace Theatre
Reaves Baston
John J. Ham Jin
Hoot Ders
Saugus
Cal
Gibson
Sho
Bucky Simms
North
Toptown
Ethlyne Clair
Hhe
Ethlyne
William
Palace screens Starting Something among features
Dunn, Stim Summersile and Chas Seilan present The Palace theater plans a selection slate including the comedy Starting Something and the Fox news, with Summersile and Seilan in supporting roles.
Bellamy Players at Nashville May Stay All Summer
The Bellamy Players currently at the Orpheum in Nashville Tennessee on a six week contract may extend the engagement beyond mid month. Ralph Bellamy said discussions include possible remaining in Nashville with Rexford Bellamy Jack Meade and Irene Summerly among the company. They left Des Moines at winter’s end after a season as Bellamy’s stock leading man previously at Waterloo theatre.
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Bellamy
Orpheum Theatre
Nashville
Tenn
Ralph Bellamy
Rexford Bellamy
Jack Meade
J. Raymond Northcutt
Irene Summerly
Laurette Brown
Alice Delbridge
Grant Partin
Williams
Beery Hatton in Wife Savers at Strand All Week
Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton appear as a comedy team in Wife Savers at the Strand for a week, with Beery as a private extended by war and Hatton as his lieutenant. The plot features a fake marriage decree, a romantic triangle, dramatic stunts, and supporting acts including Zaz Pitts Ford Sterling and Pathe news. Real estate ads and other listings accompany the page.
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Rane Wallace Heery
Sally Blane
Wife Savers
Strand Theatre
Wallace Beery
Raymond Hatlen
Beery, Hatton
Strand
Raymond Hatton
Beery
France
Yodler
Raymond Hattan
Berry
Hatton
Brooklyn
Tom Kennedy
Gen. Lavoris
Colette
Kennedy
Sally
Wally
Leutenant
Heutenant
Zaz Pitts
Ford Sterling
Mason Tell
Taylor Holmes
Leah Baird
Albert Payson
Pathe
Gables
van & Schenck
Florrie Levere
Lou Handman
Waring
What Price Glory at Rialto theater stars McLaglen
Victor McLaglen leads in What Price Glory at the Rialto starting tomorrow for a week. The film traces Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt from China and the Philippines to France, a rival love story amid war’s tragedy, with Dolores del Rio as Charmaine and Edmund Lowe as Quirt. The program includes a short comedy and news reels.
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Victor McLaglen
Flagg
Rialto Theatre
Quirt
China
Philippines
France
Charmaine
Edmund Lowe
Dolores del Rio
Willian V. Mong
Phyllis Haver
Elena Jurado
Leslie Fanton
Barry Norton
Sammy Cohen
Ted McNamara
August Tollaire
Rialto
Debuting Charlotte Robertson Chooses Stage Career
Miss Charlotte Robertson of Regina, Illinois, chosen as a society girl, will make her debut before the footlights rather than at a party as she pursues a stage career.
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Charlotte Robertsons
Ragina, I
Waterlooo Riviera flight set for Paramount news capture
A Paramount News cameraman will film Will Fly to Riviera Sunday with Herbie Koch organist of Capitol theatre Des Moines. Koch gives an organ recital at the Riviera at 1 pm before returning to Des Moines for his Capitol program. The Miss Lois plane from Henry Bolte Des Moines carries Bolte and Miss Bolte. Mayor Tibbitts greets the Des Moines party on arrival and Sheriff Wagner sends motorcycle deputies to clear the route to the theatre for swift travel.
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Breital
Herbie Koch
Organis
Capito Theatre
Des Moines
Riviera
Billy Boye
Casey Jones
Waterloo
Air Service
Riviera Theatre
Paramount News
Capitol Theatre
Koch
Capid
Miss Lois
Henry Bolte
Miss Bolte
The
Tibbitts
Des Moines Party
Wagner
Palace Theatre Presents Painted Ponies and Comedy
Hoot Gibson stars in Painted Ponies with Eth lyne Clair and a comedy Starting Something. Fox News and The Phantom by Paden Players feature a beauty chorus, ballet numbers, vaudeville acts, and music. On screen The Girl from Gay Paree with Sherman Bedford McGregor. Rialto offers Sin Gorge with Mason Frazer Metcalfe Astor, plus two reel comedy and Fox news reel. Riviera shows Lady Be Good with Mackail Mulhall, vaudeville romance, comedy and news. Strand presents Silk Legs with Bellamy business girl tale and high finance romance, plus three Vitaphone vaudeville acts Rex Morrison Wolfe Kahn Kaufmann Brothers. Jay Mills stage band, Mrs Mills sax, Loonus Twins Darlings of Songland Johnson Hewitt Evelyn Dean.
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Palace
Hoot Gibson
Ethlyne Clair
Fox News
Plaza
The
Paden Players
Gay Paree
Lowell Sherman
Barbara Bedford
Malcolm McGregor
Rialto
Sin
Songland
Johnson & Hewitt
Evelyn Dean
Madge Bellamy
Rex Morrison
Roger Wolfe Kahn
Kaufmann Brothers
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Lews
Tim Imnha
Nu, Nu, Nuha
Los Angeles
May Robson
Ann Warrington
William Tooker
Diana Ames
Miss Robson
Fred Thomson
Kit Carson
Dorothy Janis
Texas
Variety
Hollywood
Paramount
Long Island
Feld
Wll
Mae Murray
Ernest
Emmett Flynn
Stan Taurel
Oliver Hardy
Dog
Buster
Em Jnnings
Revie Theatre
Sean Lowrey
Uoy
Om Vieihen Enes
Playa Theatre
Casey” Jones
Prus Holier Wank Bakers
Marietin
Bruns
North Walerica Place
Earl Garrison
Pearl Garrison
the Peoples Mutual BH. & TG. Aasn
Hazel Manning
West Side
Lillian Drew
Lillian
PILOT
Lansing
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
William Fox
Victor McLaren, Edmund Lowe
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Gloria Swanson
Sadie Thompson
Ben Hurfig
Seventh Heaven
Ramona
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