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

April 5, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 15 MADAME MARIA KURENKO (87). Number,: a. "The Jewel Song/' from Faust, b. “II Bacio"; c. “The Last Rose of Summer." 840 feet. For release September 28, 1920. KELLER SISTERS AND LYNCH (88). Numbers: a. “How D'Ya Do"; b. “Ka Krazy for You"; c. “If I Had You." 727 feet. For release October 5, 1929. YVETTE RUG EL (89). Numbers: a. “Paradise Lost"; b. “Marie"; c. “The Parting." 713 feet. For release October 12 1929. SONG WRITERS REVUE, THE: Gus Edwards, Dave Dreyer, Fred A. Ahlert, Roy Turk, Roy Heindorf, xNacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, Roy Egan, Fred Fisher and Jack Benny. Directed by Sammy Lee. BILTMORE TRIO (90). Number: “Jail Birds." 860 feet. For release October 19, 1929. CLYDE DOERR (91). Saxophone act. Numbers: a. “Saxophone March"; b. “Sunny South"; c. “Technicalities"; d. “Bye, Bye, Sweetheart." 795 feet. For release October 26. 1929 JIMMY HUSSEY (97). Number: “Unea»y Street." 841 feet. For release December 7. 1929. ROY EVANS (assisted by A1 Belasco) (98) in comedy sketch. Exclusive Columbia artist. 795 feet. For release December 14, 1929. THE REVELLERS (99). Numbers: a. “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”; b. "Rose of Waikiki"; c. “Breezing Along With the Breeze." 607 feet. For release December 21 1929 MADAME MARIA KURENKO (100). Numbers: a. “Shadow Song" from “Dinorrah"; b. “Song of India." 714 feet. For release December 2 1929. WALTER C. KELLY (101), in “The Virginia Judge." 803 feet. For release January 4, 1930. VAN AND SCHENCK (102). Numbers: a. “Everything’s Going to Be Ail Right"; b. “Ain't Got Nothin’ Now"; c. “St. Louis Blues." 799 feet. For release January 11, 1930. CLYDE DOERR (103). Saxophone act. Numbers: a. “Wedding of the Painted Doll"; b. “If I Had You"; c. “Original Music." 572 feet. For release January 18. 1930. BILTMORE TRIO (104) in “College Romeos." 853 feet. For release January 25. 1930. PARAMOUNT Christie Talking Plays LET ME EXPLAIN. Starring Taylor Holmes, with John T. Murray and Vivienne Oakland. Adapted from Kenyon Nicholson's domestic sketch, “The Anonymous Letter." Released January 25. 1930. Two reels. THE DUKE OF DUBLIN. Starring Charlie Murray. Comedy sketch of Irish ditch digger who suddenly gets a million and runs a wild apartment house. Released February 1, 1030. Two reels. DON’T BELIEVE IT. Starring James Gleason with Lucille Gleason and John Litel. A husband becomes invisible when he returns from a bust in Florida in a rented taxicab. Gleason's sketch which was played on stage. Released February 8. 1930. Two reels. SCRAPPILY MARRIED: With Johnny Arthur. Bert Roach, Ruth Taylor and Mabel Forrest. Two warring couples across the hall from each other in an apartment house. From playlet by Wilson Collison. Released February 22, 1930. Two reels. THE BEARDED LADY. Louise Fazenda in a sideshow burlesque with all typical characters of a dime museum. Released March 1, 1930. Two reels. DOWN WITH HUSBANDS: With Johnny Arthur, Bert Roach and Frances Lee. Based on Howard Green and Milton Hocky's sketch, ‘ Wives on Strike." Men importing fair strikebreakers to Paducah to break their wives walkout. Released March 8, 1930. Two reels. THE STRONGER SEX: Carmel Myers, Bert Roach, George Stone and Frances Lee, in comedy sketch by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements of a free-love author and her real life and home longings. Released March 15, 1930. Two reels. HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR: Charlie Murray in a politician campaign comedy sketch. Released March 22, 1930. Two reels. THE MELANCHOLY DAME. All colored cast from Octavus Roy Cohen story, staged in colored cabaret. 1909 feet. Released Feb. 2, 1929. A BIRD IN THE HAND. Lois Wilson. Jason Robards, Roy D’Arcy and Dot Farley, farcical sketch between husband and wife over love and money. 1833 feet. Released Feb. 16. 1929. POST MORTEMS. Raymond Griffith, Tom Kennedy, Mabel Forrest, comedy playlet with gentleman burglar sitting in a bridge game with couple he came to rob. 2017 feet. Released Mar. 2, 1929. MUSIC HATH HARMS. All colored cast in Octavus Roy Cohen story about saxophone player who couldn't play the sax and had a double. 1892 feet. Released Mar. 16, 1929. MEET THE MISSUS. James and Lucille Gleason In Kenyon Nicholson pla>, about vaudeville husband and wife, former coming home a little inebriated with a blonde. 1808 feet. Released Mar. 30, 1929. lED’S VACATION. Charley Grapewin, Anna Chance, in their own vaudeville sketch about adopting a baby. Introduction on musical comedy stage. 1909 feet. Released Apr. 13. 1929. WHEN CAESAR RAN A NEWSPAPER. Raymond Hatton. Sam Hardy in Waldemar Young's travesty of Caesar as an editor, Marc Antony as a press agent for Cleopatra. 1821 feet. Released May 11, 1929. HOT LEMONADE. Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur and Walter Hiers, in a triangular comedy on board a steamer bound for Honolulu. 1850 feet. Released May 25. 1929. DEAR VIVIEN. Raymond Hatton and Sam Hardy In a clever comedy skit about a business man who wrote letters, with which a blackmailing blonde is holding him up. 1891 feet. Released June 22, 1929. THE SLEEPING PORCH. Raymond Griffith, Barbara Leonard and John Litel in sketch about a husband who is sleeping out in the snow to cure a cold and his scheme with a convict to get him out of it. 1550 feet. Released Sept. 7, 1929. FARO NELL, or In Old Californy. Louise Fazenda, Jack Luden and Frank Rice in a travesty revival of an old western melodrama. Laid on the desert and in an old fashioned movie western saloon. 1819 feet. Released Oct. 5, 1929. ADAM’S EVE. Johnny Arthur. Frances Lee, in a comedy sketch starting with a bridegroom's pre-marriage celebration and ending in a mixup in the apartment of two chorus ladies. 1618 feet. Released Oct. 12, 1929. HE DID HIS BEST. Taylor Holmes, Carmel Myers and Kathryn McGuire, in farce comedy playlet of Holmes entertaining a friend’s wife for the evening, ending in a comedy sword duel. 1616 feet. Released Oct. 19. 1929. THE FATAL FORCEPS. Ford Sterling, Bert Roach and Will King, in comedy of a dentist on trial for nearly murdering a saxophone player whose music had driven him crazy. 1664 feet. Released Nov. 2, 1929. THE DANCING GOB. Buster and John West, in combination of West's stage dancing and comedy taking place at a naval training station where the actors are mistaken for sailors. 1823 feet. Released Nov. 9, 1929. DANGEROUS FEMALES. Marie Dressier and Polly Moran in a comedy of two old spinsters about to entertain either the evangelist or a dangerous criminal, with Dressier getting a little intoxicated with the visitor. 1873 feet. Released Nov. 16. 1929. BROWN GRAVY. All colored cast in Octavus Roy Cohen story about a fake medium swindling the gullible patrons, novel feature Is inclusion of Georgia Jubilee Singers in spirituals. 1627 feet. Released Nov. 23, 1929. HE LOVED THE LADIES. Taylor Holmes. Helene Millard and Albert Conti, in farce comedy sketch of a near elopement of a wife and how Holmes, the husband, cleverly handles the situation. 1764 feet. Released Nov. 30, 1929. WEAK BUT WILLING. Will King, Billy Bevan and Dot Farley in a comedy in a cabaret, with the Hebrew comedian in a role of a husband being given a birthday party and not being able to get any food. 1627 feet. Released Dec. 14, 1929. MARCHING TO GEORGIE. Buster and John West and Frances Lee in a comedy starting on a battleship, with Buster as a sailor and John as comic captain, and ending in a mixup in a girl's boarding school. 1850 feet. Released Dec. 21. 1929. THAT RED HEADED HUSSY. Charley Grapewin and Anna Chance as a couple of old time vaudevillians in a martial sketch staging a fake quarrel in front of their fighting daughter and son-in-law. 1521 feet. Released Dec. 28. 1929. FOR LOVE OR MONEY. Lois Wilson. Bert Roach and Ernest Wood, in a comedy at the race track, with horse race atmosphere and Bert Roach proving his friend’s wife’s love. 1827 feet. Released Jan. 4, 1930. SO THIS IS PARIS GREEN. Louise Fazenda, Bert Roach and George Stone, in a burlesque of the Parasian Apache theme, laid in the cabarets and Latin quarter of Paris. Released Jan. 18. 1930. Service talks, Feb. 15. 1930. • • • PATHE George LeMaire Comedies AT THE DENTIST’S (0501). George LeMaire and Louia Simon. Scene: Dentist's office. Louis Simon, suffering from a toothache goes to George LeMaire for treatment. For release March 24, 1929. 2 reels. DANCING AROUND (0502). George LeMaire and Joe Phillips. Scents: Exterior and cabaret. George LeMaire and Joe Phillips take girls out for big time. Ivan Brunnell's Montrealers play “My Album of Dreams" and Vivienne Johnson sings "Mane." For release April 21, 1929. Two reels. GO EASY, DOCTOR (0503). George LeMaire. Louis Simon. George LeMaire as the bone-breaker — Louis Simon as the nut — and huwl For release July 14. 1929. THE PLUMBERS ARE COMING (0504). George LeMaire. Louis Simon. LeMaire and Simon, two burglars, trying to act like plumbers. For release August 18. 1929. 2 reels. GENTLEMEN OF THE EVENING (0505). George LeMaire. Lew Hearn, Evalyn Knapp. George LeMaire as the house detective. Lew Hearn as a delegate in Association of Inventors of America convention and Evalyn Knapp as the girl in the case. For release Oct. 20, 1929. 2 reels. BARBER’S COLLEGE (0506). George LeMaire. Lew Hearn, Sam Raynor. Gladys Hart. Lew Hearn as “Good Time Charlie," graduate of a barbers' college, creates havoc in a barber shop. For release Dec. 15, 1929. 2 reels. TIGHT SQUEEZE, A (0507). George LeMaire, Jimmy Conlin. Evalyn Knapp. The adventures of a pair of impecunious young men who borrow dress suits to call upon their best girls. For release Feb. 2. 1930. 2 reels. A PERFECT MATCH (0516). Paul Baron. Ann Butler, Clara Langsner, George Mayo. Release April 6. 1930. Manhattan Comedies HER NEW CHAUFFEUR (0511). Louis Simon. Veree Teasdale, Averill Harris. Veree Teasdale thinks Louis Simon is her new chauffeur, while he thinks Veree is his bride to-be. For release May 19, 1929. 2 reels. WHAT A DAY (0512). Louis Simon, Kay Mallory. What a picnic he had when he started to take his family on a picnic. For release June 16, 1929. 2 reels. HARD BOILED HAMPTON (0513). Harry Holman. Evalyn Knapp, Doris McMahon, Alice Bunn, Andy Jochim. Holman is a hard boiled lawyer with a fast line. For release July 28. 1929. 2 reels. BIG TIME CHARLIE (0514). Lew Hearn, Dick Lancaster, Evalyn Knapp. A hick comes to New York to make whoopee on New Year's Eve. Eddie Elkins' Orchestra plays in night club sequence. For release October 6, 1929. 2 reels. LOVE, HONOR AND OH. BABY (0515). Herbert Yost. Franklyn Ardell, Evalyn Knapp, Kay Mallory. A very modern version of “the worm that turned" theme. For release December 15. 1929. 2 reels. DANCE. MAN DANCE (0516). Special Cast. Releasing April 13. 1930. Checker Comedies THE SALESMAN (0531). Frank T. Davis, Helyn Ebys-Rock. Frank T. Davis sells a car to Helyn Eby-Roek. For release July 21. 1929. 2 reels. TURKEY FOR TWO (0532). Frank T. Davis. William Frawley, Noel Francis. Two escaped convicts with a fondness for turkey come to a Westchester inn at Thanksgiving. Jack LeMaire’s Golden Rooster Orchestra features “I’ll Say She’s Pretty." For release August 25. 1929. 2 reels. SMOOTH GUY, THE (0533). Frank T. Davis and Evalyn Knapp. A bean salesman with a grand spiel tries his line on a small town girl. For release Oct. 27, 1929. 2 reels. ALL STUCK UP (0534). Harry McNaughton, Olyn Landick, Charles Howard. Evalyn Knapp, Lester Dorr, Joe B. Stanley. How paper hangers go on strike and guests at newlyweds' housewarming try to finish the job with mirthful results. Release Jan. 19. 1930. 2 reels. Melody Comedies SYNCOPATED TRIAL (0571). Morgan Morley. Lew Seymore. A musical mock trial. Eddie Elkins’ Orchestra and Ed Prinz Dancers feature. For release September 8, 1929. 2 reels. AFTER THE SHOW (0572). Jack Pepper, Morgan Morley. Paul Gamer. Jack Wolf. Numbers: “Can't Find a Girl." “A-Hunting We Will Go." “Here We Are," “Jig-A-BooJig," “Ain’t That Too Bad." “Mississippi Mud." For release Nov. 10, 1929. 2 reels. NIGHT IN A DORMITORY, A (0573). Ginger Rogers, Ruth Hamilton. Thelma White, Morgan Morley, Eddie Elkins and Orchestra. Miniature musical comedy. Numbers: “Stay With It," “Song of the Volga." “I Love a Man in a Uniform." “Where the Sweet Forget-Me-Nots Remember." “Why Can't You Love That Way." “Dormitory Number." For release Jan. 5. 1929. 2 reels. CHILLS AND FEVER (0545). A1 Shean. Mary Clark. Evalyn Knapp. Release April 27. 1930. Two reels. Variety Comedies BEACH BABIES. Charles Kemper, Evalyn Knapp, Naomi Casey. Charles Kemper tries to shine in the eyes of Evalyn Knapp while Naomi Casey makes him appear ridiculous. For release August 4, 1929. 2 reels. HAUNTED (0552). Bob Millikin, Evalyn Knapp. Charles Kemper. Mystery comedy embodying all the thrills of The Cat and the Canary, The Gorilla, The Bat and others. For release September 1, 1929. 2 reels. END OF THE WORLD (0553). Alexander Carr, Lorin Raker. Marcia Manning. A wealthy Hebrew, believing the world is about to end. gives his son thousands and his consent to the latter’s marriage to an Irish maid. For release September 29, 1929. 2 reels. HIS OPERATION (0544). Charles Kemper, Sally Noble. He must have quiet, but what a racket they raise. For release Nov. 24, 1929. 2 reels. WEDNESDAY AT THE RITZ (0555). Charles Kemper, Evalyn Knapp. The almost-married young man and some girl and they meet “Wednesday at the Ritz." Release Dec. 22, 1929. 2 reels. DOING PHIL A FAVOR (0557). Mackenzie Ward and VaA Lester. A British society man is Jealous of his wife and uses his friend Phil to test her fidelity. Release Feb. 16, 1930. 2 reeis. HIS BIRHDAY SUIT (0558). Dr. Carl Herman. Steve Mills, Billy M. Green, Cliff Bragdon. What happens at a vaudeville show when two little boys attempt to aid the Great Honey in his mystery act. For release May 4, 1930. 2 reels. Folly Comedies HER HIRED HUSBAND: Released January 12. 1930. Two reels. FANCY THAT (0541). William Frawley, Earle Dewey. What a party would look like if two hobos suddenly became millionaires. Frawley sings “Dearest One." For release September 22. 1929. 2 reels. SO THIS IS MARRIAGE (0542). Guy Voyer, Norma Pallat. Earle Dewey. Miniature musical comedy of marriage and) its problems. Theme song: “After You Say ‘I Lovo You.' " For release Nov. 17, 1929. 2 reels. BEAUTY SPOT, THE (0543). Special Cast. Releasing April) 6. 1930. RIDE ’EM COWBOY (0544). Thelma White. Bob Carney, Lester Door, Ormar Glover. Eddie Elkins and orchestra. Release April 13. 1930. Two reels. SIXTEEN SWEETIES (0574). Thelma White, Bob Carney, Si Wills, Harry McNaughton, George McKay, Eddie Elkins and orchestra. A miniature revue. Release April 20, 1930. Two reels. Golden Rooster Comedies GARDEN OF EATIN’ (0561). James Gleason. Lucille Webster Gleason. The story of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie’s beanery that tried to become ritzy — and what happened when!? Orchestra plays “Pouring Down Rain.” For release August 11. 1929. 2 reels. RUBEVILLE (0563). Harry B. Watson. Reg. Merville. Jere* Delaney, Josephine Fontaine. Miniature musical comedy. Numbers: “Sally," “Maggie,” “Sweet Long Ago." "Ragging the Scale." “She May Have Seen Better Days," “Sweet Sixteen.” “Wabash," “Bedelia," “Yaka Hool* Hicky Doola," “Over the Waves." For release Dec. 8, 1929. 2 reels. FIFTY MILES FROM BROADWAY (0566). Harry B. Watson, Reg Merville. Olga Woods. Miniature musical comedy. Numbers: “How Is Everything Back Home." “Trail) to Yesterday," “Carolina Moon," “Oh, Tillie," “Schooldays," “Summer Time.” “Rosie, You Are My Posie." “Stars and Stripes," “Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie." "Give My Regards to Broadway." Release March 10. 1930 2 reels RUBEVILLE NiGHT CLUB (0564). Harry B. Watson. Reg Merville. Josephine Fontaine, Olga Woods. Miniature musical comedy. Numbers: “I'm Just a Vagabond Lover," “It's Always Fair Weather." “Sunrise to Sunset," “Maggie," “Harmonists,” “Nola," “Doin’ the Raccoon," “Under ♦he Double Eagle," “Turkey in the Straw.” “Mocking: Bird." Release Jan. 26, 1930. 2 reels. CROSBY’S CORNERS (0565). Reg Merville. Felix Rush. Josephine Fontaine, George Patten. Miniature musical) comedies. Numbers: "Down On the Farm," “I'll Do Anything or You," “Every Day Away From You," “What a. Day." “I Ain’t Got Nothing for Nobody But You," “Sweet 16," “Here We Are," “Ragging the Scale." “Good Night. Ladies." “Merrily We Roll Along.” “Jingle Bells," "Auld Lang Syne." Release Feb. 23, 1930. 2 reels. FAIRWAYS AND FOUL (0502). James and Lucille Webster Gleason. The Gleason’s on a golf course. Release* October 19, 1929. Buck & Bubbles Comedies FOWL PLAY (0523). Buck and Bubbles. The boys have, to deliver an ostrich. On the way they become entangled) with a yaller-skinned vamp. What happens is plenty. Numbers: “Suwanee River." “Oh, You Beautiful Doll," “When I Get You Alone Tonight." “Give Me a Little Kist. Will You Hun," “Coal Black Mammy of Mine," “Chicken Reel " For release Dec. 29. 1929. 2 reels. HIGH TONED (0524). Buck and Bubbles. When his dusky rival not only grabs his job of butler, but also his lady friend. Wildcat brings in Denny and Lilly the goat to start something. Numbers: “My Old Kentucky Home.” “Home, Sweet Home." "12th Street Rag." “Clarins* Marmalade." “Lonely Me." Release Feb. 9. 1930. 2 reels. DARKTOWN FOLLIES (0525). Buck and Bubbles. Broke* and hungry. Wildcat and Denny show their samples of song, dance and joke and stumble onto the rehearsal of a DarktowD Follies and get the job. Numbers: “St. LouieBlues.” “I'm Grazy For You." “Rachmaninoff’s Prelude," “Mean To Me," "Some Rainy Day." Release March 2. 1930 2 reels HONEST CROOKS (0526). Buck and Bubbles. A mysterious black bag, buried in a haystack by a couple of crooks, is found by the boys, full of money. When they try t©> return it, things happen — and howl Numbers: “Turkey ini the Straw." “Old Black Joe.” Release March 23. 1930. Pathe Audio Review No. I. ELEPHANT. It’s climate songs of the steppes. No. 2 MAMMY, Notes from Paris the street that Jack Built fences. No. 3. SAFARI. Winter white, blow the man down. No. 4. BORNEO. High life in Borneo. Paris sprees. New York, Cossack. No. 5. TIVOLI. Gats and guns, hills of homes. Machine. No. 6. SPOOKS. He-styles (Pathecrome) on with the* ISSUE NO. 7. We Knew Them When — The Land of Yesterday— Whiskey Johnnie. ISSUE NO. 8. Fancy Steppers — Red Hot Hollywood — Nocturne. ISSUE NO. 9. Things We Live With — Indian — Lauder and Funnier — ‘Gator.’ ISSUE NO. 10. Imported Noise — ’Way Up There — Scoring: the Picture. (Produced by the Van Beuren Corporation) Aesop’s Fables Dinner Time. Stage Struck, Presto Chango, Skating Hounds, Faithful Pups, Custard Pies. Woodchoppers, Concentrate. Jail Breakers, Bug House College Days. House Cleaning Time, A Stone Age Romance, The Big Scare, Jungle Fool, Fly's Bride. Summer Time, Mill Pond. Tuning In, Barnyard Melody, Night Club, Close Call. Skip Ahoy. Grantland Rice Sportlight Winning Patterns, Three Aces, Crystal Champions, Clowning the Game, Sport Almanac. Modern Rhythm, Hoot, Line* and Melody. Duffers and Champs, Boyhood Memories, Gridiron Glory, Body Building, Stamina. Feminine Fitness, Sport A-La-Carte. Carolina Capers, Interesting Tails, Happy Golf.