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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 08, 1929

Page

5

Why Be Good Leads Strant Screenbill in Waterloo

Colleen Moore stars in Why Be Good at the Strant, billed as her greatest whoopee picture since Flaming Youth. The film follows Pert as a Charleston dancer who flirts with mischief but preserves her virtue. Nel Hamilton appears in support with special musical settings alongside Gus Edwards International Revue in Technicolor and Vincent Lopez on air. The column also notes a French business record book and a Toledo museum Egyptian scarab linked to tomb worship.

Colleen Moore Strant Starling Otte Pert Kelly Pert Nel Hamilton Colleen

Radio Schedule Shifts Across Major Networks

Broadcasting by the Associated Press notes changes in home hours on KNX Los Angeles and WJZ. KOA Denver features a Friday banjo quartet. WEAF hosts a radio reunion, with WEAF and stations airing a global music program. Mrs. Edison selections broadcast by Frank Bleck on WJZ coast to coast next Monday. ABC adds six Midwest stations to Pacific coast chain. Dorothy Kendrick highlighted as this week's WJZ artist. George Rymer to front CBS concert series. British airman Lieut Manchester tunes in daily to KFI from Kimberley. Schooldays reinstated on NBC Pacific coast after summer pause. Young artists contest winners perform Monday at WJZ stations. Medical advances summary by Dr Bootjer on WJZ Friday. Pat Flanagan children program moves to daylight savings winter hours on WBEEM Chicago.

Thomas A. Edison Frank Bleck WJZ Next Pat Flanagan WBEEM Ciicaga Daylight Savings

Legion Band Opens Outdoor Concert in Cedar River Park

About 1,200 fans enjoyed a sprightly program directed by R. Whaylen. The Legion band played open air numbers with strong reception, though some pieces were omitted due to weather and schedule changes. further concerts will begin promptly.

Cedar River Park American Legion Pani R. Whaylen

Stage Lives and Loves in Current Paramount

The Paramount presents The Broadway Melody an all talking musical with Anita Page Hessie Love and Charley King as leads. It follows two sisters from small town trying to make it in New York and the backstage life behind the Follies with a songwriter boyfriend while offering big stage scenes and racy behind the scenes glimpses. The program also features Hogan's Wild Oats with 60 girl chorus and modern sound, Back From Broad sketch, Movietone news and local Courier news reel, and next week A Man's Man with a Hollywood satire plus Gilbert LeMarr Palnt Beach Four and Bruce Bowers on the talking screen.

Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Paramount Theatre New York Anita Page Hessie Love Charley King Jed Prouty Kenneth Thompson Edward Dillon Mary Doran Bridie Kane J. Emmett Beck Hogan Mabel Normand William Warnes McCoy Ardine Broad Paramount Sound News Movietone News and Courier- Paramount Paramount Wiliam Haines Josephine Dunn Mae Busch Sinclair& LeMarr Palnt Beach Four Bruce Bowers

King of the Rodeo and Broadway Melody at Palace and Paramount

A night of films and acts features Gipson in King of the Rodeo with Kathryn Crawford and a comedy Fooling Casper. The Broadway Melody at Paramount stars Anita Page Bess Love and Charles King with singing and dancing scenes. Also shows Hogan's Wild Guts and other reals plus a Be Good synchronizer and a Diet Sole program with Pathe news and odd animal antics.

Palace Hoyt Gipson Courier-Paramount Cillemn Cmttings Jere Neil Gus Edward Vincent Laney Pathe Sound Hamilton

Rural Night Life Invades Broadway With Floating Club

A column reports summer shifts in New Yorks nightlife with farm noises and out of town venues. The Amphitrite, a former Navy monitor anchored in Hempstead harbor, hosts open air dancing and sunbathing. Private talkies and voice tests target wealthy patrons while a department store peddles a phonograph voice test experience. Navy sailors note locals call the Nile River going down north or up south.

New York U.P Broadway New Jersey Westchester County Long Island Connecticut Briarcliffe Lodge Cclat Chateau Laurier Hayseed United States Navy Afelen

Hoot Gibson Stars in King of Rodeo at Palace Theatre

Hoot Gibson stars in King of Rodeo at the Palace, a Universal production with real rodeo action from Chicago and Montana settings. Kathryn Crawford leads the female role alongside Gibson while comedy and Fox news segments accompany the feature.

Hoot Gibson Palace Theatre Chip of Gibson Kathryn Crawford Universal Discovery Fox News

Pola Negri Sues Prince for Divorce

Moving picture actress Pola Negri files for divorce from Prince Serge Mollyant. The case may go before a suburban judge next week at Pola's grand castle in Reull. Serge Mollyant opposes reconciliation and rejects any such effort.

Payis Dtina Ule Poala Negri Serge Mollyant Reull Pola Serge

Marie Prevost Returns in Flying Fool Supporting Boyd

Marie Prevost, absent from the screen for months, appears in a new film titled Flying Fool to back William Boyd in The. The article notes Hollywood activity and Prevost’s reentry into cinema as a supporting star.

Marie Prevost Hollywood Cash June Wiliam Boyd

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