Two Flaming Youths arrives at Plaza for six days
The comedy portrays a circus owner and a village sheriff in a rollicking plot with W Pields and Chester Conklin in lead roles. Mary Ban and Jack Luden headline, with George Irving as villain and Cissy Fitzgerald as hotel owner. A kangaroo cage gag and a mortgage rescue frame the spree, plus Max Davidson at the start and the Hudson Wonders on stage.
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Paramount
Plaza
W. O C. Pields
Chester Conklin
Fields
Conklin
Mary Bnan
Jack Luden
George Irving
Cissy Fitzgerald
Jimmie Quing
yiNain
Battie
Orpheum
Max Davidson
Frank
Plaza Vaudeville
Fee
Theatrical Gossip From St Paul And Beyond
The second season of McCall-Bridge Players in St Paul lost an estimated 15 000 to 20 000 with their tabloid musical company before closing for the season last week and not returning. George E Wintz buys the Ziegfeld Follies production for 75 000 after Eddie Cantor left. Marion Davies was offered a role in Cardboard Lover in St Louis but declined. Edna Leedom and Frank Doelger privately wed in Philadelphia on March 9. Five summer stock shows open the week of April 9 including Take My Advice as the opening bill. The Ringling Barnum circus moves to Madison Square Garden for a three and a half week engagement. George Harrs leads ahead of Sells-Flora shows, Des Moines notes a cinema slackening, Aimee Semple McPherson campaign draws 7,000 into the Coliseum. Natcha Rambova opens a Fifth Avenue dress studio and claims Rudy Valentino is happy. Toby’s comedians in Searle’s report struggle to draw crowds, with sardines or butter on offer and a hamburger visible. London reports Mirratre tickets on instalment plans.
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St. Paul
McCall-Bridge Players
Reserved shows six weeks advance and weekly shilling rate
The note describes a plan to reserve a show six weeks ahead at 1 shilling per week. It mentions a Dallas contest titled body beautiful used as exmMortation by a movie palace. A Hollywood traffic court scene features a wife fined for speeding and a humorous letter from the husband accompanying a $15 check.
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Hollywood
Dynamite the Four-Footed Ranger at Palace Theatre
The article spotlights Dynamite, a canine star from The Four-Footed Ranger, showing at the Palace today and tomorrow with Marjucie Bey. It highlights the dog’s prominence, supporting cast, and the Western spectacle, noting Pearl Sindelar Karve Ford Pal Rooney Frank Sepulerda and Lerrin among those involved.
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Gobb
Harnors
Palace Theatre
Marjucie Bey
Cobb
Vsu
Pearl Sindelar
Karve Ford
Pal Rooney
Frank
Sepulerda
Lerrin
Haydn Bey
Peteres
Crystal
Louise Pazenda
Decorah Students Strike To Reinstate Coacil On Aor
Decorah high school students continued their protest demanding the reinstatement of a figure named Goieh Feelings. The strike led to street action and protests directed at home and school officials as they pressed for the enactment to be reversed.
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Decorat
Decorah
Magely
Iunedent
Decorah High Rehaal
Penguiendeed
The Poor Nut and Jazz Singer at Strand Thursday
A college comedy features The Poor Nut with Wack Mulhall as the lead, plus Jazz Singer Thursday at the Strand. The show includes vaudeville acts, live music, and a cast led by Jane Winton and George Chavet with an orchestral accompaniment, promising a clean comedic night for audiences.
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Strand
Wack Mulhall
Aude
Abe
Vie College
Wits
Cirle Murray
Jane Winton
Saliker
George Chavet
Leonard
Hinds
Othe Straphone Tyre
Ady Avis
CN Guerin
Taekes
Sebly Ward
Siresh
Psi Buy
AL Ube Party
Rest Break Drama Ends in Equity Showdown
Jeanne Engels, a noted performer, faces charges for halting an on tour production after claiming illness. Management allegedly refused an understudy, risking expulsion by Equity. A dramatic sketch titled Non-Support by Orne Morgan will follow, with a parody radio reveal.
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Jeanne Engels
Werress
Equity
Bury Methtosh
Orne Morgan
Lasky Corp reports 1927 earnings rise of 44 percent
New York March 31. Paramount Famous Lasky corporation yesterday reported a 44 percent rise in earnings for 1927 over 1926. The consolidated statement including subsidiary earnings shows net profits for the last quarter of 1927 at 2,407,579 and for the full year at 8,057,098.
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New York
U.R
Paramount
Famous Lasky Corporation
Coe College Glee Club Delights Cedar Rapids Audience
Coe College Glee Club of Cedar Rapids 25 men presented a varied program of songs and instrumental pieces at First Presbyterian church Social Auditorium under Christian Endeavor auspices. Under Paul Ray the group shifted from glee club to choir and classical male chorus tones. Special numbers included a cornet duet by Stanley Wesley and Lester Staw tenor solos by Harold Reed and a blind Wey baritone solos by Paul Hat and Gerald Pringle with Alvin Keisov Wasplana on accompaniment. The Ark concert opened its spring tour of towns in Minnesota.
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Coe College Glee Club
Cedar Rapids
First Presbyterian Church
Christian Endeavor Society
Paul Ray
C Church
Stanley Wesley
Lester I Staw
Harold Reed
Blind Wey
Paul Hat
Gerald Pringle
Alvin Keisov
Wasplana
Coc College Glee Club
Town
Minnesota
Admission of German Doctors to Former Colonies
Berlin officials hear a unified appeal from the German Colonial society and allied groups urging the government to press the League of Nations to lift the embargo on German physicians in former German colonies now Mandated territories. They argue diseases—malaria sleeping sickness yellow fever tuberculosis—rise while doctor numbers in these regions remain woefully low. Recent German medical advances in tropical diseases bolster their case for humanitarian reasons.
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Berlin
League of Nations
Chaney at Rialto in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Universal shoots Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame with 3,000 cast, 11 reels, and a $1.5 million budget. Quasimodo, Esmerelda, and Phoebus fuel a cathedral siege finale, with elaborate Notre Dame and Paris set reconstructions and four and a half hours of makeup each day.
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Lon Chaney
Universal Studios
Carl Laemmle
Chaney
Rialto Theatre
Quasimodo
Cathedral of
Universal City
Paris
Louis XV
Lfe
Jehan
Esmerelda
Glopia
Underworld
Phoebus
Clopin
Quasimods
Patsy Ruth Miller
Ernest Forrence
Norman Kerry
Raymond Hatton
Tully Marshall
Brandon Hurst
Nigel de Brullier
Harry von Meter
Caesar Gravina
Eulalie K. Jensen
On Your Toes at Plaza Promises Dance Romance and Ring Clash
Reginald Denny stars in On Your Toes at Plaza a romance with Hayden Stevenson and Barbara Worth plus super comedy and news reels. Denny plays a dancing teacher raised by his grandmother who aids a championship bout clash ending in a decisive fight.
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Reginald Denny
VA Eville
Plaza
Denny
Baby Marie Frances Fights For Big Break In Hollywood
Hollywood veteran child star Marie Frances Kiernan once dubbed Baby Marie by Wallace Reid is now an aspiring extra in Hollywood. Once a film darling alongside Reid Farnum and Theda Bara, she left for Seattle at eight for school and now battles for a comeback amid a fickle industry. Her mother and friends remain hopeful she will regain a lasting screen career.
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Hollywood
Cal
Bernhardt
Marie Frances
Marie
Seattle
Wallace Reid
Bebe Marie Frances Kiernan
Reid
David Wark Griffith
Willam Farham
Farnum
Gertrude Astor
Theda Bara
Amid Ring, Vaudeville and Film A Night of 1930s Entertainment
A lively program features Mary Carr as a dramatic grandmother supporting a boxing tale with Barbara Worth and Hayden Stevenson, plus Frank Hagney. The Hickville Follies delivers singing and dancing comedy while Four Pioneer Tap Dancers and Sam Johnson entertain with minstrel numbers. Jack Strause and Ona Crawford close the bill with monologue and music. A film news reel and Memories trumpet solo cap the night as curtain falls.
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Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Riviera
William Haines
Abce Day
Jack Hall
Hobart Bosworth
Mary Carr
Barbara Worth
Hayden Stevenson
Frank Hagney
Denny
Hickville Follies
Buck
Sam Johnson
Eddie Haran
Harry Klein
Lew. Tracy
Jack Strause
Teacher Wins 4500 Verdict in Naughty Story Slander Suit
Indianola Iowa March 31 Attorneys for Onton Crawford and T R M Lawrence school board members prepared an appeal to the supreme court from a 4500 damages award in the case of Mrs Prorence Cochrane Bradshaw. The district court jury after five hours deliberation awarded the sum to Bradshaw who sued for 25000 alleging slander by officials who spread reports she recanted off color stories to pupils. Bradshaw denied the charge and said the stories were used as an excuse to break her contract. She had previously won relief from salary due under her contract in county and state proceedings.
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Indianola
Ounton Crawford
TR. M. Lawrence
Broadhorn
Supreme Court
Prorence Cochrane Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Crawford
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Mary Pickford Receives Bulk of Mother's Million Estate
Mary Pickford is named as the major beneficiary of a one million dollar estate left by her mother Charlotte Pickford. In probate papers filed in superior court, Lottie Pickford Forest, Jack Pickford, and little Mary Pickford each receive 200000 in trust, with Mary to obtain the remainder.
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Los Angeles
Cal
U.p
Charlotte Pickford
Superior Court
Lottie Pickford Forest
Anolf
Jack Pickford
Uttle Mary Pickford
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