King of Kings at Strand to Run Seven Days
Strand to show The King of Kings tomorrow for seven days. A Biblical love story of Christ’s life from his ministry to the resurrection with an all star cast including Werner Logan Schildkraut and Dorothy Cummings. Movietone music and a 110 piece orchestra accompany the feature. Regular admission prices apply.
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Strand Theatre
Christ
Werner
Jacqueline Logan
Mary Magdalene
Joseph Schildkraut
Dudes
Rudolph Schildkraut
Cainsphas
Ernest Torrence
Preier
Victor Varconi
Pontius Pilate
Dorothy Cummings
Madonna
John
Joseph Striker
Theodore Kosloff
Caiaphas
Robert Edeson
Mathe Levi
Bryant
Washburn
Mark
Mickey Moore
Julia Faye
Martha
Kenneth “Thomson
Lazarus
Grthsamane
Morietone Music
Masons
Federated Woman's Clubs
Grand Opera
Theatrical and Picture Gossip of Early Film Industry
A report covers a new music publishing outfit named Famous Music Company sharing ownership between Paramount and Harms Inc to publish theme songs and music for Paramount synchronized pictures. The item also notes Variety on tears over The Singing Fool, Sheridan theatre earnings drop, Fox Movietone Follies plans, Kiddie Movietone subjects, Herb Grove's Omaha trip for Publix talks, Marie Prevost's freelance shift to College Coquettes, Anita Page and Bessie Love seeking reading for Broadway Melody, and Show Folks dialog recording at Pathe while talkers shift to Broadway actors to fill Hollywood roles.
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Famous ‘Music Company
Paramount
Harms, Inc
Paramount Synchronized’ Pictures
Hollywood Talkies and Stage Stars of the Era
The piece surveys the rush of stage and screen entrants, noting 100000 annual college applicants for show business. It cites National studios in Los Angeles refining television tech, Lita Gray Chaplin’s stage debut, and Fiske O Hara's Molly and Me tour changes. It also mentions Jolson fans, a stunt fatality, Universal fashion chatter, and MGM renewing Ramon Navarro.
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Lita Gray Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
Los Angeles
Tim McCoy in The Adventurer at Palace Theatre
Tim McCoy stars as an American mining engineer drawn into a Latin American revolution in The Adventurer at the Palace today and Sunday. Dorothy Sebastian and Charles Delaney co star with Gayne Whitman as the villain. director Vishetslav Tourjansky brings European flair to the thriller. Also showing Her Mother's Back and the Fox News. FIND ALLEGED ALCOHOL Morrison Oct 13 David Smith Cedar Rapids arrested for 75 gallons of alleged alcohol found in his car.
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Sebastian
Tim McCoy
Charles Delaney
the Adventurer
Palace Theatre
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
McCoy
Dorothy Sebastian
Sally Levy
Gayne Whitman
Villian
Alex Melesh
George Cowl
Vischetslav Tourjansky
Michael Strogoff
America
Leon Abrams
Sarah Bernhardt
Paris
Fox News
Morrison
David Smith
Cedar Rapids
Divorce Granted for Selma Paley Mitchell from Oliver Morosco Mitchell
Selma Paley Mitchell has been granted a divorce from Oliver Morosco Mitchell, the nationally prominent theatrical producer known as Oliver Morosco. The couple had a sensational finish story line and the film version will screen at the Strand in November after synchronization on Movietone.
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Selma Paley Mitchell
Oliver MoTosco Mitchell
Oliver Morosco
Dolores Costello stars in A Million Bid at Crystal theater
Dolores Costello appears today and Sunday in A Million Bid at the Crystal with Warner Oland Betty Blythe William Demarest and Douglas Greer in supporting roles. The program also features a no part comedy Crazy to Fly and a single reel spot. Young women soon become eligible for l yceum scholarships in Ports and provincial colleges, ending a boys only policy in Paris.
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Crystal Theatre
Warner Oland
Betty Blythe
William Demarest
Douglas Grerhard
the Crystal
Lyceums
Ports
Untiil
Paris
Sunrise story of Temptress O at Riviera theater
A four day Riviera engagement of Sunrise a Fox feature stars Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien with a wife and husband plot amid temptation and vengeance. The film boasts a mile long city scene with 7 500 extras and 1 500 cars and 25 cameras. The Riviera stage show includes Jack Bain the Riviera band a comedy feature Don't Cry Baby and acts by Walter Dwyer Robin Hoad and others.
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Fox
Riviera Theatre
Janet Gaynor
George O'Brien
Badil Rosing
Margaret Livingston
Farrell MacDonald
Ralph Sipperly
Jane Winton
Arthur Housman
Eddie Boland
Paramount News
Jack Bain
Riviera
Skadatin-Dee
Ralph Jones
Little Bluebird
Walter & Dwyer
Robin & Hoad
Pictures Here Before Hollywood Reach Waterloo Patrons
A Waterloo reader reports that films seen weeks earlier in California theatres are arriving in Waterloo first. Harold Schulte, studying at UC Southern Branch, notes The Singing Fool played legally in Waterloo before its Hollywood release and observes price differences with California venues.
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Waterloo
California
Harry W. Schultz
Harold
University of California
Hollywood
Harald Schulte
Los Angeles
200 Million Dollar Merger for Talkies in New York
In New York on October 13 a $200,000,000 motion picture combination was announced by Warner Brothers Pictures Vitaphone the Stanley Company and First National Pictures. Contracts are signed and await stockholder ratification. Each company will retain its organization and personnel while all producers will enter the talkie business.
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New York
Warner Brothers Pictures
Vitaphone
Stanley Company
First National Pictures
Howard Paden in Toby ale for Plaza Show at Levy
Howard Paden and the Paden Players bring Toby style humor to the Plaza Theatre for a four day run capped by Sonny Boy a romancing tale of a timber country girl and a packwoodman. The bill includes None But Brave La dy of the Night Club Ladies of the Night Club and Other People's Business with vaudeville and song.
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Toby
Paden
Leza Theatre
Great Northwest
Sonny Boy
Dunseith
Timber Country
Plct
Paden Peaches
Plaza
Sally Phipps
Cherles Morton
Dam Tootin
Tiffany-Stehl
Ricardo Cortez
Barbara Leonard
Soepery
Charles Chase
Paden Players
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Molly and
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Joyce Coad
Ruth Chattertion
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Clement K. Phillips
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Betty Compson
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Roof
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Crystal
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George O’brien
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Jack Osterman
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