Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

April 5, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 7 ♦WEARY RIVER (Mel-TME) 7565 7978 (It) February 10, 1929. Sound on disc. (TOS) May 18, 1929. With Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, George Stone, William Holden, Louis Natheaux, Raymond Turner, Robert O'Connor. THEME: A bootlegger is framed by a rival gangster and sent "up the river.” His singing over the radio wins for him the love of the rival's sweetheart. On his release he is protected from gangland by the girl and the police, and becomes a radio star. ♦WEDDING RINGS (D-AT) 6621 (It) December 14, 1929. Sound on disc. With H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Olive Borden, Hallam Cooley, James Ford, Kathleen Williams, Aileen Manning. THEME: The efforts of two girls, one a senseless flapper, the other a sane young woman, to win the love of a wealthy clubman. ♦YOUNG NOWHERES (D-AT) 5256 7850 (It) October 20, 1929. Sound on disc. (TOS) November 23, 1929. With Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon, Bert Roach, Anders Randolf, Raymond Turner. Joselyn Lee. THEME: The romance of an elevator boy, and the troubles encountered when he gives a party for his sweetheart in the apartment of a wealthy tenant Fox Silent Disc Film ♦BEHIND THAT CURTAIN (My-AT) 8300 (It) June 30, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) August 31, 1929. With Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King. Philip Karloff, Jamiel Hassen, Peter Gawthorne. John Rogers, Montague Shaw, Finch Smiles, Mercedes Velasco, E. L. Park. THEME : Girl marries unhappily, flees to old friend in the desert; husband, a criminal, follows, is lulled, and happiness is left for the two. ♦BIG PARTY. THE (CD-AT. M) 6656 6520 (R) Febmary 23, 1930. With Sue Carol, Walter Catlett, Dixie Lee, Frank Albertson, Richard Keene. "Whispering” Jack Smith, Charles Judels, Douglas Gilmore, Ilka Chase, Dorothy Brown, Elizabeth Patterson. BIG TIME (D-AT) 8038 7815 (R) September 29, 1929. Sound on disc and film. With Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Daphne Pollard, Josephine Dunn, Stepin Fechit. THEME: Hoofer teams up with another while wife is ill. Wife goes to Hollywood, becomes star, he drifts in as an extra, and she finds she still loves him. ♦BLACK MAGIC (D-ME) 5855 5835 (It) June 2, 1929. Sound on film. With Josephine Dunn, Earle Fox, John Holland. Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy Jordon, Fritz Feld, Sheldon Lewis, Ivan Lindow, Blue Washington. THEME: Three derelicts on a South Sea island, where girl brings them back to manhood. ♦BLACK WATCH. THE (D-AT) _ 8487 (R) May 2G, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) July 6, 1929. With Victor McLaglen, Myma Loy, David Torrence, David Percy, Joseph Diskay, Joyzelle. David Rollins, Lumsden Hare, Roy D’Arcy, Mitchell Lewis, Cyril Chadwick. Francis Ford, Walter Long, Frederick Sullivan, Richard Travers, Pat Somerset, Claude King. THEME: Military melodrama with most of the scenes laid in India. CAMEO KIRBY (D-AT) 6078 6120 (R) January 12, 1930. (TOS) February 13, 1929. With J. Harold Murray, Norma Terris, Douglas Gilmore, Robert Edeson. Charles Morton. Stepin Fechit, John ITyams, Mme. Daumery, Myrna Loy, Beulah Hall Jones. THEME: The stormy life of a gambler who finally wins the girl of his heart. ♦CAPTAIN LASH (D-ME) 5376 5454 (R) January 6, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) February 10. 1929. With Victor McLaglen, Claire Windsor, Arthur Stone, Albert Conti, Clyde Cook, Jean Laverty, Frank Hagney, Boris Carsky. Jane Wilton. THEME: Boss stoker on ship finds that lovely lady was not all that 6he purported to be. ♦CHASING THROUGH EUROPE (D-TME) 5622 5581 (R) June 9, 1929. Sound on film. With Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Gustav von Seffertitz, Gavin Gordon, E. Alyn Warren. THEME: Hero steps ’in in time to save a beautiful lady from an unhappy marriage, with Europe fur nishing the continental atmosphere. ♦CHRISTIANA (D-PT) 7105 7911 7651 (R) December 15. 1929. With Janet Gaynor, Charles Morton. Rudolph Schildkraut, Lucy Dorraine, Harry Cording. THEME: A bit of a Cinderella story, in which marriage that might have been unhappy is avoided, with a background of Holland and a circus. ♦CITY GIRL (D-AT) .. —.8217 6240 6171 (R) February 16, 1930. With Charles Farrell. Mary Duncan. David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Dawn O’Day, Guinn Williams, Dick Alexander, Tom Maguire, Edward Brady. THEME: A case of bringing the city to the old farm, in the person of the farmer's daughter-in-law, and finally the couple decide to stay and help father. ♦COCKEYED WORLD. THE (CD-AT) 9240 1 1 1 09 10702 (R) October 20, 1929. (TOS) October 5. 1929. With Victor McLaglen. Edmund Lowe. Lily Damita, Lelia Karnelly. Ed Brendel, Bobby Burns. Jeanette Dagna, Joe Brown, Stuart Erwin, Ivan Linow, Jean Bary. THEME: Two marines constantly vieing with each other over some girl. ♦CRAZY THAT WAY (C-AT) .. 5800 (R) March 30, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Joan Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna. Regis Toomey, Jason Robards, Sharon Lynn, Lumsden Hare. Baby Mack. THEME: The story of a young society girl who is much courted but neither loves nor is interested in any man — until the right ones arrives and she is forced to use all her wiles to win him. ♦DOUBLE CROSS ROADS (D-AT) (R) April 20, 1930. Sound on disc and films. With Lila Lee, Robert Ames, Montagu Love, Ned Sparks. George MacFarlane, Edith Chapman, Tom Jackson, Charlotte Walker, William V. Mong, Thomas Jefferson. THEME: The story of an ex-convict, who has determined to go straight, and his sweetheart, a young cabaret singer, who outwit a gang of crooks endeavoring to get the ex-convict “pull” one more safe-cracking job. ♦EXALTED FLAPPER. THE (CD-ME) 6790 5866 (R) May 26, 1929. Sound on film. With Sue Carol, Barry Norton. Irene Rich, Albert Conti, Sylvia Field, Stuart Erwin, Lawrence Grant, Charles Clary, Michael Visaroff, Don Allen, Landers Stevens. THEME: Flapper princess doesn't love prince of neighboring i.ingdom until he woos her incognito. ♦FAR CALL. THE (D-ME) 6282 5313 (R) April 28, 1929. Sound on film. With Charles Morton. Leila Hyams, Ullrich Haupt, Stanley J. Sanford, Warren Hvmer, Arthur Stone, Charles Middleton, Pat Hartigan. Ivan Linow, Dan Wolheim, Randolph Scott, Charles Gorman. Bernard Seigel, Willie Fung, Harry Gripp, Frank Chew, Sam Baker. THEME: Story of the sea, with sea rover planning seal hatchery raid and is prevented with girl who dissuades him. ♦FOUR DEVILS (D-TME) 9496 9298 9295 (R) September 15, 1929. (TOS) November 9, 1929. With Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, Barry Norton, Farrell MacDonald, Nancy Drexel. THEME: Circus acrobats, brought up from childhood together, eventually coming to love each other, and realizing it all the more after vampire steps into picture. FOX MOVIETONE FOLLIES OF 1929 (MC-ATL 8540 8291 (It) May 25, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) June 29, 1929. With Lola Lane, Stepin Fechit, Frank Richardson. David Percy, Sue Carol, Dixie Lee, David Rollins, Sharon Lynn. John Breedon. THEME: Rich plantation owner buys show and marries leading lady, but not right off, of course. ♦FROZEN JUSTICE (D-AT) 6129 7583 7368 (It) October 13, 1929. With Leonare Ulric, Obert Frazer, Louis Wolheim, Ullrich Haupt, Laska Winter, Tom Patricola, Alice Lake, Gertrude Astor, Adele Windsor, Warren Heymer, Neyneen Farrell, Arthur Stone. THEME: Story of the frozen north, unscrupulous trader and an Eskimo. ♦GHOST TALKS. THE (My-TME) 6482 (R) March 30, 1929. Sound on film. With Helen Twelvetrees, Charles Eaton, Carmel Myers, Earle Foxe, Stepin Fechit. THEME: Correspondence school detective solves mystery and marries girl. ♦GIRL FROM HAVANA (D-AT) 6545 6069 5986 (R) September 22. 1929. With Paul Page. Lola Lane, Natalie Moorhead, Kenneth Thompson, Warren Hymer, Joseph Girard. Adele Windsor. THEME: Girl solves jewelry murder mystery, and finally marries the son of the murdered man, who was also looking for the crooks. GOLDEN CALF, THE (MC)... 6552 (R) March 16. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Jack Mulhall, Sue Carol. Walter Catlett. El Brendel. Marjorie White, Richard Keene, Paul Page, Ilka Chase. THEME: An artist's secretary, secretly in love with her employer, reverts from her puritanical ways to becojne a dashing model and by so doing becomes the artist's favorite. HAPPY DAYS (MC) 7650 7514 (R) March 2, 1930. Grandeur wide film version 7514. (TOS) January 22, 1930. With Charles Farrell. Janet Gaynor. Will Rogers. El Brendel, Victor McLaglen. Edmund Lowe, J. Harold Murray, Jack Smith, David Rollins, Ann Pennington, George Jessel, Sharon Lynn, William Collier, James Corbett. HARMONY AT HOME (C-AT) 6550 6395 (R) January 19. 1930. Marguerite Churchill. Charles Eaton, Charlotte Henry, William Collier, Sr., Rex Bell. Dixie Lee, Dot Farley. Elizabeth Patterson. Clare Kummer, Edwin Burke, Elliott Lester, Charles J. McGuirk. THEME: Father’s promotion makes family want to put on the ritz, which they do for a while, but finally decide that the old way of living is best. ♦HEARTS IN DIXIE (D-AT) 6444 7463 (R) March 10, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) May 25, 1929. With Stepin Fechit, Clarence Muse, Eugene Jackson, Dorothy Morrison, Bernice Pilot. Clifford Ingram, Mildred Washington, Zach Williams, Gertrude Howard, Vivian Smith. Robert Brooks. A. C. H. Billdrew, Richard Carlysle. THEME: Story of the negro, trials, tribulations and ambitions. HIGH SOCIETY BLUES (AT. S) 9238 (R) March 23, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier, Sr., Hedcia Hopper, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Fazenda, Joyce Compton, Brandon Hurst. THEME: A musical romance in which the love of a boy and girl reconcile their families, one a family of aristocrats and the other a family of new rich. ♦HOT FOR PARIS (CD-AT, S) 5613 6639 6697 (R) December 22, 1929. (TOS) January 11. 1929. With Victor McLaglen, Fifl Dorsay. El Brendel. Polly Moran, Lennox Pawle, August Tollaire, George Fawcett. Charles Judels, Eddie Dillon, Rosita Marstini, Agostino Borgato, Yola D’Avril, Anita Murray, Dave Valles. THEME: Sailor wins lottery and when they try to find him to give him his prize money, he leads them a merry chase, thinking they want to jail him. ♦IN OLD ARIZONA (W-AT) 8724 (R) January 20, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) March 23, 1929. With Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe. Dorothy Burgess. THEME: Bandit plunders rich to give to poor. When he finds the girl he loves untrue, he takes unique revenge. ♦JOY STREET (CD-ME) 5754 5748 (R) April 7, 1929. Sound on film. With Lois Moran, Nick Stuart. Rex Bell. Jose Crespo, Dorothy Ward, Ada Williams, Maria Alba, Sally Phipps. Florence Allen. Mabel Vail. John Breedon. THEME: Story of the escapades of wealthy youths. LET’S GO PLACES (CD-AT) .. 6745 6620 (R) February 2, 1930. With Joseph Wagstaff, Lola Lane, Sharon Lynn. Frank Richardson, Walter Catlett, Dixie Lee, Charles Judels, Ilka Chase, Larry Steers. THEME: Mistaken identity and changed names causes much misunderstanding but it comes out all right in the end. ♦LONE STAR RANGER (W-AT) 5948 5904 5736 (R) January 5, 1930. With George O’Brien, Sue Carol. Walter McGrail, Warren Hymer, Russell Simpson, Lee Shumway. Roy Syewart, Colin Chase, Richard Alexander, Joel Franz. Joel Rickson. Oliver Eckhardt. Caroline Rankin, Elizabeth Patterson. THEME: Bold, bad bandits brought to time by a fast shootin' he-man. upholder of the law. LOVE, LIVE AND LAUGH (D-AT, S) 8390 8217 (R) November 3, 1929. With George Jessel, Lila Lee, David Rollins, Henry Kolker, Kenneth Mac Kenna, John Reinhart, Dick Winslow Johnson, Henry Armetta. Marcia Manon, Jerry Mandy. THEME: Italian goes to Italy, gets in the war. returns home disabled and finds his wife, who thought him dead, married to another. ♦LUCKY STAR (D-TME) 8824 8940 8644 (R) August 18, 1929. (TOS) September 28. 1929. With Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, Hedwiga Reicher, Guinn (Big Boy) Williams, Paul Fix, Gloria Grey, Hector V. Sarno. THEME: Hero and coward in the war. Hero wounded. Girl falls in love with him, but mother wants her to many coward. Hero gets well, and everything is lovely. MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD (D-AT, S) 10064 9747 (R) October 27. 1929. Sound on disc and film. Part color. (TOS) January 18. 1930. With Harold Murray. Norma Terris, Walter Catlett. Irene Palaska, Tom Patriocola, Lennox Pawle, John Garrick. THEME : Heir to throne wishes to marry American girl. Mother objects and puts things in his way but he finally has his wish, becoming player in picture in which she stars. ♦MASKED EMOTIONS (D-TME) 5389 5419 (R) May 19, 1929. Sound on film. With George O’Brien, Nora Lane, Farrell McDonald, David Sharpe, Edward Pell, Sr., Frank Hagney. THEME: Oriental smugglers and boy and girl in love. ♦MASQUERADE (CD-AT) 5674 (R) July 14. 1929. Sound on film. With Alan Birmingham, Leila Hyams, Clyde Cook, Farrell MacDonald. Arnold Lucy, George Pierce, Rita LeRoy, John Breedon. Jack Pierce, Pat Moriarty, Jack Carlisle, Frank Richardson. THEME: Crook gang finally goes to jail, and man and girl find happiness after much trouble. MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (CD-AT) 7438 7246 (R) February 9, 1930. With Kenneth McKenna, Frank Albertson, Paul Page. Walter McGrail, Warren Hymer, Farrell MacDonald. Stuart Erwin. George La Guere, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Harry Tenbrook. Warner Richmond, Roy Stewart, Charles Gerard. Pat Somerset. THEME: Fourteen men trapped in a disabled submarine. NIX ON DAMES (D-AT, S) „ 6236 6071 (R) November 24, 1929. With Mae Clarke, Robert Ames, William Harrigan. Maude Fulton. George MacFarlane, Camille Rovelle, Grace Wallace, Hugh McCormack, Benny Hall, Gilly Colvin, Frederick Graham, Louise Beaver. THEME: Two-man acrobatic team has differences over same girl, but happiness comes to all in the end. ♦NOT QUITE DECENT (D-TME) 4653 4965 (R) March 24. 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) June 22, 1929. With June Collyer. Louise Dresser, Aiian Lane, Oscar Apfel. Paul Nicholson. Marjorie Beebe, Ben Hewlett, Jack Kenny. THEME: Broadway again attracting small town folks. ♦ON THE LEVEL (CD-AT) 5813 (R) Sound on disc and film. With Victor McLaglen, Lilyan Tashman, William Harrigan, Arthur Stone, Leila McIntyre, Mary McAlister, Ben Hewlett, Harry Tenbrook, R. O. Pennell. THEME: The story of a steel worker who becomes infatuated by a beautiful woman and thereby involved in a real estate racket. ♦ONE WOMAN IDEA, THE (D-ME) 6106 6111 (R) June 2, 1929. Sound on film. With Rod La Rocque, Marceline Day, Sharon Lynn, Sally Phipps, Shirley Dorman. Ivan Lebedoff. Douglas Gilmore. Gino Corrado, Joseph W. Girard. Arnold Lucy, Frances Rosay. Guy Trento, Daniel Hasson, Tom Tamarez, Coy Watson. THEME: Story of a Persian prince who is attracted to the unhappy wife of a cruel English lord. They visit Persia, and events transpire. ♦PLEASURE CRAZED (D-AT) .„ 5460 (R) July, 1929. Sound on film. With Marguerite Churchill. Kenneth McKenna, Dorothy Burgess, Campbell Gullan, Douglas Gilmore, Henry Kolker, Frederick Graham, Rex Bell, Charlotte Merriam. THEME: Husband and wife lease home from crooks. Wife attempts to poison husband, but the girl in the crook gang with whom he has fallen in love saves him. ♦PROTECTION (Mel-ME) .. 5511 5536 (It) May 12, 1929. Sound on film. With Dorothy Burgess, Robert Elliott, Paul Page, Ben Hewitt, Roy Stewart. Dorothy Ward, William it. Tooker, Joe Brown, Arthur Hoyt. THEME: An efficient newspaper seeks to break up a bootlegging ring, despite the protection which it has. ♦RIVER, THE (D-TME) 6536 6807 6597 (R) October 6, 1929. (TOS) November 23, 1929. With Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann, Aldredo Sabato. THEME: The part the river plays in the lives of a man and a maid, including a whirlpool and a murder. ROMANCE OF RIO GRANDE (D-AT, S) 7757 8862 8652 (R) November 17, 1929. With Warner Baxter, Antonio Moreno, Mary Duncan, Mona Maris, Robert Edeson, Agostino Borgato, Albert Roccardi, Mrs. Jiminez, Majel Coleman, Charles Byers, Merril McCormick. THEME: College bred son of a Mexican mothei and American father is attacked by bandits. Taken to grandfather's ranch, where there is a clash between grandson and nephew. ♦SALUTE (D-AT) 6438 7678 7720 (R) September 1. 1929. (TOS) October 26. 1929. With George O'Brien, William Janey, Frank Albertson, Lumsden Hare, Stepin Fechit, David Butler, Rex Bell, John Breedon. THEME: One brother at West Point, the other at Annapolis. ♦SEVEN FACES (D-AT) 8219 7750 (R) December 1. 1929. With Paul Muni, Mar guerite Churchill, Lester Lonergan, Eugenie Besserer, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Russell Gleason, Walter Rogers. SKY HAWK (D-AT) 6966 7100 6925 (It) January 29. 1930. With John Garrick. Helen Chandler. Gilbert Emery, Lennox Pawle. Lumsden Hare, Billy Bevan, Daphne Pollard, Joyce Compton. THEME: Lone pilot in combat with giant dirigible proves his courage. SONG OF KENTUCKY, A (D-AT) 7519 7281 (R) November 10, 1929. With Lois Moran. Joe Wagstaff. Dorothy Burgess, Douglas Gilmore, Hedda