Syncopation at Strand Theatre Stars Fred Waring Pennsylvanians
The Strand theatre presents Syncopation featuring Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians for a full week. The show blends music with a film about Broadway dancers Darrel and Sloane, with Barbara Bennett and Bobby Watson in leading roles. Morton Downey performs original songs alongside Downey and Miss Lee, and a Follies of Fashion novelty plus an all talking comedy In The Old Bar complete the program with Pathe News.
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Fred Waring
Strand Theatre
Aft
Gene Markey
Darrel and
Sloane
Barbara Bennett
Bobby Watson
Flo
Henry
Morton Downey
Dorothy Ee
Downey
Miss Lee
Jericho
Fifth Avenue
New York
Pathe Sound
P F L Conference Discussing Pictures in St Louis
The Paramount Famous Lasky company opens its five day international convention in St Louis to decide the style of talking pictures for the 1829 30 theatre season. About five hundred delegates arrive for the event with executives Adolph Zukor Jesse L Lasky S R Kent E Shaner and Bam Katz attending. Discussions will cover production and release issues and new entertainment trends.
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St. Louis
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Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
S. R. Kent
Shaner
Bam Katz
Mary Dugan On Trial Leads Paramount Screen Debut
The Trial of Mary Dugan starring Norma Shearer opens at the Paramount for four days. Cast includes H B Warner Lewis Stone Lilyan Tashman Olive Tell Adrienne d Ambricourt among others. Prolog frames the courtroom drama with a sensational plot of a girl who funded sugar daddies and faced murder charges. Also on bill Ninety Ninth Amendment Green Twentieth Century Faydettes Movietone and news. Madame Mystery Hole in the Wall planned for next week.
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Mary Dugan
Bayard Veiller
England
Germany
Paramount Theatre
Norma Shearer
Raymond Hackett
Mary
Paramount
Green
Movietone
Paramount News
Claudette Colbert
Edward G. Robinson
Bill
Born & Lawrence
Riviera
Fred Ardath
Jack White
Tim McCoy in Overland Telegraph at Palace Today
Tim McCoy stars in The Overland Telegraph a MGM western at the Palace today and Sunday. The drama follows the building of the first transcontinental telegraph with cavalry protection and battles with Indians. Dorothy Janis Lawford Davidson and Chief Big Tree lead the cast with a Blackfeet tribe and cavalry sequences set in Wyoming. Mickeys Parade and Fox News complete the bill.
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Overland Telegraph
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Palace Theatre
Tim McCoy
McCoy
John Waters
Dorothy Janis
Lawford Davidson
Frank Rice
Chief Big Tree
Wyoming
Mickey
Fox News
Overland Telegraph And Mary Dugan At Peghheatre Tonight
Peghheatre presents Tim McCoy in The Overland Telegraph adventure set in Civil War times plus Mickeys Parade and Fox news. Paramount offers The Trial of Mary Dugan an all talking Bayard Veller drama with Norma Shearer supported by a large cast. Also Vitaphone comedies and Fox news reels. Strand features Syncopation with Fred Waring and Morton Downey in a musical love story plus Sennet all talking Follies in Fashion and Pathe news.
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Tim McCoy
Overland Telegraph
Mickey
Fox News
Paramount
Mary Dugan
Bayard
Velller
Norma Shearer
Raymond Hackett
Lewis Stone
H. B. Warner
Green
Fred Waring
Morton Downey
Dorothy Lee
Pathe Sound News
Dobbs Show Radios on KPO and KFI Airwaves
Early morning exercises led by Hugh B. Dobbs are broadcast on both KPO and KFI radio stations, expanding reach beyond the original station. The program’s routine and cadence attract listeners across networks.
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KPO
Hugh B. Dobbs
KFI
Ethel Barrymore to play Scarlet Sister Mary role
Ethel Barrymore will portray the title heroine in a dramatization of Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary set in the Carolina South. The production features an all white cast and was announced yesterday by Lee Shubert.
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New York
INS
Ethnel Barrymore
America
Julia
Peterkin
Lee
Shubert
Miss Barrymore
Carolina Negress
Rift between Heifetz and Vidor Family Denied
Friends deny reports of estrangement between Jaschs Heifetz the Russian violinist and Florence Vidor film star. Neither spouse discussed the rumors of a possible divorce, leaving speculation unresolved.
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Vidor Family
Jaschs Heifetz
Florence Vidor
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Paramount Manager Relocated to Cedar Rapids Theatre
J. E. Marquis, longtime Riviera-Paramount assistant manager, leaves the local house Tuesday for the Capitol-Paramount in Cedar Rapids. H. A. Holdsberg from Omaha will assume the assistant manager role here, after Herb Grove moved from Riviera to Capitol Cedar Rapids and then to Fort Armstrong Rock Island.
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Capitol-Paramount Theatre
Cedar Rapids
R. F. Emig
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Omaha
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Rialta
Fort Armstrong
Rock Island
Capitol
Des Moines
Herb Grove
Riviera
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