Exhibitors Herald World (Jul-Sep 1929)

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September 21, 1929 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 51 seen and heard talking in the same scenes — in fact, two characters engage in dialog. First National Vitaphone talking production. THE ARGYLE CASE : Trailer < 3059 ) . Thomas Meighan speaks and sells the public Warner Bros. Vitaphone talking picture. HON KY TON K : Trailer (3049). Sophie Tucker croons a few bars from several of the "Honky Tonk" song hita. Sophie and entire cast shown in night club scene. Warner Bros. Vitaphone talking picture. THE HOTTENTOT: Trailer (2269). Comedy sketch in itself with Edward Everett Horton in extremely funny struggles with an electric horse and Patsy Ruth Miller opposite him. Warner Bros. Vitaphone talking picture. SYMPATHY (803). Five scenes. Hen-pecked husband out on a spree despite orders of the "ball and chain." A night of wine, women and whoopee ends with hubby in a hospital cot as his wife and his sweetheart wreak their vengeance. Succession of hilarious situations. Cast headed by Hobart Cava na ugh. Begina Wallace, Harry Shannon and Wynne Gibson, who played with Richard Dix in "Nothing but the Truth." HARRY TATE (778-779) in "SeHing a Car." Scene: Garage exterior. Harry Tate gives an exhibition of his comedy power in this two reeler. with an equally talented supporting cast. HARRY TATE '754-755) in "Motoring." Scene: Country road. Harry Tate, assisted by his company of boisterious clowns in a burlesque on motoring. Two reel comedy sketch. WILLIE AND EUGENE HOWARD (750-751) in "My People." Five scenes. Two reels of songs and dances worked into a powerful human interest story of an actor who has to choose between his Ghetto friends and Broadway stardom. Numbers: a. "The Volga Boatman"; b. "Blue Grass"; c. "My People." WILLIE AND EUGENE HOWARD (722-723) in "The Music Makers." Scene: Music salon. Former musical comedy stars in their first two reel comedy. Willie gives his famous imitation? of Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Gallagher and Shean. Numbers: a. "Gallagher and Sheas"; b "It's Bay Ray Raining"; c "Baby Curls." CARELESS AGE: Trailer ( 307 9 ) . Holmes Herbert, as master of ceremonies, introduces Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Loretta Young and Carmel Myers. Miss Myers sings "Melody Divine" the theme song. HARD TO G ET : Trailer (3078) . An introductory playlet followed by a scene in a night club with vocal and orchestral renditions of the theme song. Dorothy Mackaill. Louise Fazenda. Charles Delaney, Jack Oakie and Edmund Burns head the cist of this all-star trailer. THE MAN AND THE MOMENT: Trailer (3069). Billle Dove and Rod LaRocque tell about this picture with the theme song "Just a Lucky Moment" sung as a musical background. HARRY FOX AND BEE CURTIS (829), in "The Fox and the Bee." Scene: Drawing room. Of musical comedy stage. Harry Fox has an excellent foil for his lightninglike chatter in Beatrice Curtis, beautiful songstress. Dance interlude bv Miss Curtis. Numbers: a. "Underneath the Wabash Moon." b. "Love Baby." HARRY FOX AND HIS SIX AMERICAN BEAUTIES (828). Scene: Drawing room. Star funster of musical comedv with his six ludicrous chamber maids in a piece of travesty on the modern chorus girL Musical numbers and breezy monologue by Fox. Numbers: a. "Half Way to Heaven": b. "Belles of Hotels." NORMAN THOMAS QUINTETTE (827), in "Harlem Mania-" Scene : Drawing room. Colored entertainers singing and dancing. Also acrobatic drummer. Numbers : a . Sleep. Baby. Sleep"; b. "Listen to the Mocking Bird": a. "Melody in F." SEGAR ELLIS AND HIS EMBASSY CLUB ORCHESTRA (823). Scene: Band set Night club entertainer and record "name" is the star of this combination of vocal and instrumental numbers, supported by orchestra. Each player contributes a snappy solo bit in novel arrangement of "Am I Blue" the song hit from "On With the Show." Numbers: a. "How Can I Love Again"; b. "Am I Blue": c "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling." GUY ROBERTSON (813), in "High Water." Scene: Drawing room. Known as Broadway's "hit maker." Offering a rendition of a song poem of the floods that devastate the southland. Flood scenes have been double exposed over the artist's figure. THE GAY NINETIES or "The Unfaithful Husband" (811). Scene: Living room and cafe. Burlesque of the plays of the "gay nineties." Numbers: a. "McSorley's Twins"; b"We Never Speak as We Pass By"; c. "Up in a Balloon." THE FAMILIAR FACE with Hugh 0 Connell (807). Scene: Newspaper office and speakeasy. Atmosphere of metropolitan newspaper office, with disgraced reporter winning fame and fortune through the accidental capture of a notorious bank robber. Story from the pen of Rusael Crouse. national known columnist and players picked from casts of current Broadway shows. ALBERT SPALDING (798). Scene: Drawing room. Two performances from this master of the violin. Numbers: a. "Minuet in D" — Mozart, b. "Liebesfreud" — Kreisler. THE OUT-LAW IN-LAW f"82). Comedy of mother-in-law. Hubby having a hectic time with "mother" staying at the house, until he hires a circus strong woman to act as an antidote. Speedy farce with a cast of featured players and directed by Bryan Foy. BROADWAY BABIES: Score (3351-3359). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3351 to 3359 inclusive. Reels 1 to 9. First National Vitaphone talking productions. ON WITH THE SHOW: Score (3321-3332). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3321-3332 inclusive. Reels 1 to 12. Warner Bros. Vitaphone talking picture. CAREERS: Score (3311-3320). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3311 to 3320 inclusive. Reel* 1 to 10. First National Vitaphone talking productions. GIRL IN THE GLASS CAGE. THE: Score (3301-3308). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3301 to 3308 inclusive. Reels 1 to 8. First National Vitaphone talking productions. DRAG: Trailer (308). Scene from the musical show featured in the picture and cast sings "My Song of the Nile" the theme song. Richard Barthelmess then appears to introduce the cast. First National Vitaphone talking production. DOOLEY AND SALES (824) in "Dooley's the Name." Scene: Drawing room. Winter Garden stars in gay presentation of mirth and melody, deliver rollicking repartee and laughable songs, plus a dance interlude. Numbers: a. "Oh. Mr. Dooley"; b. "Polly-Molly-O." FRANK X. SILK (819) in "The Man About Town " Scene: Drawing room. Tramp comedian of burlesque and vaudeville. Clever monologue with droll songs put over in excellent tenor voice. Numbers: a. "The Millionaire Song"; b. "Oh! Oh! OH! What a Night" ALL GIRL REVUE, THE (818). Scene: Band set. All singing and all dancing show. Cast includes Betty Lou Webb, a Paul Ash discovery; Lillian Price, the comedienne; Ellen Bunting with DePaco and Kazviki. acrobatic dancers; and Jean Rankin's Bluebell's orchestra. Numbers: a. "That's Her Now*;; b. "I'm an Indian"; c ' Chrysanthemums"; d. "My Pet." KATE SMITH (817). Scene: Drawing room. Offers red hot songs with a red hot voice. Known as "The Songbird of the South." Numbers: a. "Carolina Moon"; b. "Bless You, Sister." RAY AND DOT DEAN (816) in "He's a DeviL" Scene: Exterior of cottage. Well known vaudeville team. Bay doing rube characterizations. OKLAHOMA BOB ALBRIGHT and His Rodeo Do Flappers. Scene: Drawing room. Bob Albright, baritone, assisted by Rodeo Do Flappers who sing and dance with him. Numbers: a. "My Pony Boy"; b. "Chloe"; c. "Lodel"; d. "Salter Dog." HARRY TATE (767) in "The Patent Office." Scene: Office. England's laughing fool. Harry Tate and his troupe of fun makers in comedy riot. BABY ROSE MARIE (809). Scene: Drawing room. Four year old child singing these numbers: a. "Heigh Ho"; b. "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You"; c "Don't Be Like That." THE BLUE RID6ERS with Cordelia Mayberry (795 ) . Scene: Interior of mountain cabin. Four mountaineers an 3 '"gal from th* feud county" sing, dance and play syncopation as it exists in the mountain country of the South. Numbers: a. "Trail of the Lonesome Pine"; b. "Oh Susanna"; c "Medley." EL BRENDEL AND FLO BERT (789). in 'Beau Night" Scene: Living room. Comedian of "Wings," "The Campus Flirt" and other stage and screen successes in short sketch. TWIN BEDS: Trailer (3020). Jack MulhalL Patsy Ruth Miller and Zasu Pitts introduce picture in novel bedroom scene. A First NationalVitaphone talking production. SQUALU THE: Score (3251-3261). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3251 to 3261 inclusive. Reels 1 to 11. First National-Yitaphone talking production. THE TIME. THE PLACE AND THE GIRL: Score (32083214). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3208 to 3214 inclusive. Reels 1 te 7. Warner Bros. -Vitaphone talking picture. ON WITH THE SHOW: Trailer (3060). Initial all-color, all-singing, all-talking, all-dancing trailer. Sam Hardy introducing stars of picture. Warner Bros. -Vitaphone talking picture. BROADWAY BABIES: Trailer (3008). Alice White sinking a number from the picture. Also Broadway Babies strutting their stuff. First NationalVitaphone talking production. CAREERS: Trailer (2980). Entire cast discusses whether a woman is Justified in ruining her reputation to aid her husband's career. Billie Dove speaks from the screen. First National -Vitaphone talking production. GAMBLERS, THE: Trailer (2970). Entire cast talks is this advance agent. Warner Bros. -Vitaphone talking picture. THE VARSITY THREE (804) in "Blue Streaks of Rhythm." Scene: Drawing room. Phonograph and vaudeville stars. Babe, Bob and Jack Hauser singing and dancing. Numbers: a. ' That's What I Call Sweet Music*': b. "i Used to Love Her in the Moonlight"; c ' •Baltimore." ALBERT SPALDING (801). Scene: Drawing room. Concert hall violinist playing his own composition "Alabama" first time on screen, also "Valse in G Flat" by Chopin. BUD HARRIS ANO FRANK RADCLIFFE (783) in "At the Party." Scene: Street. Negro melodies and comlca. Numbers: a. "St. Louis Blues"; b. "She's Mine," GIRL IN THE GLASS CAGE. THE (2989). Trailer. Loretta Toting plays the girl in a motion picture box office and Carroll Nye Is her chatty boy friend. ROY SEOLEY AND HIS NIGHT CLUB REVUE (796). with Boy Sedl<=y as master of ceremonies, assisted by Beth Miller, blues singer, and Billy Smith, eccentric dancer. Scene: Night club. Numbers: a. "Blue Grass"; b. "I Ain't Takin' Orders from No One": c "Sonny Boy-" MR. AND MRS. JACK NORWORTH (787) In "Odds and Ends. * ' Scene : Drawing room. Norworth of musical comedy fame and Dorothy A del phi. his wife, in patter and songs of Northworth's own composition. Numbers: a. "Honey Boy"; b. "The Man and the Monkey"; c. "My Boy." IRENE FRANKLIN (777). "The American Comedienne.' Two comedy characterizations. Scenes : Restaurant and nursery. Numbers: a. "The Waitress"; b. "The Flapper Mammy's Lullaby." NINETYNINTH AMENDMENT... THE (776): Comedy. Three Broadway stars. Charles Richman. Veree Teasdale and Hugh McConnell appear as supporters of an antigambling amendment. Scene: Living room. LEO REISMAN AND HOTEL BRUNSWICK ORCHESTRA (770) in "Rhythms." Scene: Band set. Shadowgraph silhouettes synchronized with music. Numbers : a. "Mooche"; b. "Waters of Perkiomen"; c. "If I Had You": d. "Hyo Mio"; e. "Milenberg Blues"; f. "Lonely"; g. "Some of These Days." MACK AND PURDY (2795) in "An Everyday Occurrence" Scene : Parkway. A smart guy gets himself entangled after a few words with a smart lady. CECILIA (CISSIE) LOFTUS (792) in 'Famous Impersonations." Scene : Drawing room. Imitation of Sophie Tucker and others. Numbers : a. "Gonna Get a Girl" ; b. "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes"; c. Yiddish version of "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes." FRED ARDATH (785) in "The Singing Bee." rustic comedy. Scene: Rustic home. Was rube comedian of the Follies. Numbers: a. "I Pagliaeci"; b. "Finiculi-Finicula" ; c. "Bring Back My Bonnie to Me." PALM BEACH FOUR. THE: (794). night club quarteL Scene : Garden. Stars of Helen Morgan Club. Club Deauville. and European clubs. Numbers: a. "Some Sweet Day"; b. "Poo-Poo-Paroop"; c "Nobody's Fault But Your Own." JACK WHITE AND HIS MONTREALERS '7?1) in a number from bis own act at the Frivolity Club. Scene: Night club. His own orchestra and two pretty accompanists. Numbers: a. "I'm Karazy for You"; b. "Mean to Me"; c. "Good by Broadway; Hello Montreal"; d. '•Finiculi-Finicula"; e. "Laugh. Clown Laugh"; f. "I Pagliaeci"; g. "Over There"; h. "Anvil Chorus"; L "Rose of No Man's Land." BOBBY FOLSOM (788). in "Typical Types." Scene: Drawing room. Zlegfeld beauty and leading lady of variety stage, doing imitations. Numbers: a. "Two Little Girls"; b. "Tess"; c "I Lost My Stockings." TINY TOWN REVUE (74). Scene: Stage set. A pageant of the Lilliputians. Dane in and singing by midgets. Numbers: a. "Tiny Town Opening": b. "The Only One to Be"; c Miss Ann a belle Lee"; d. "I Scream. You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream." GEORGE BROAD H U RST AND COMPANY (780). in "Three o'Clock in the Morning." Scene: Cabaret. Drunken sailor in night ulub. Numbers: a. "Anvil Chorus"; b. ' Wobbly Walk." DESERT SONG OVERTURE (2930). Played by Yltaphoaa Symphony Orchestra, HOT STUFF: Score (3181-88). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3181 to 3188. inclusive. Reels 1 to 8. A First NationalVitaphone talking production. HOUSE OF HORRORS: Score <31Ri-*7V Syi-hroniw* hr Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3151 to II If, inclusive. Reels 1 to 7. First National -Vita phons talking production. DESERT SONG, THE: Score (3141-54). Synchronized far Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra, including exit march. Numbers 3141 to 3154. inclusive. Reels 1 to 13. 3154 Is exit march. HOUSE OF HORRORS: Trailer (2990). Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin at ouija table in spooky looking house. First NationalVitaphone talking produc;ion. DIVINE LADY: THE: Score f3031-40). Synchronized score played by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3031 to 3040 inclusive. Reels 1 to 10. First NationalVitaphone production. SONNY BOY: Trailer (3000). Presents Davey Lee, juvenile star. SATURDAY'S CHILDREN: Trailer (2998). Grant Withers, male lead, discourses on this Maxwell Anderson picture. Flashbacks show some scenes. First National -Vitaphone production. HOT STUFF: Trailer (2977). Billy BakeweU. Juvenile lead, and Alice White and Louise Fazenda tell about thi3 picture. First National -Vitaphone production. WHY BE GOOD: Trailer (2960). Jack Mulhall give* glimpses of this Colleen Moore picture. Flashback shown. First National-Vitaphone production. FROM HEADQUARTERS: Trailer (2867). Henry B. Walthall, in jungle hut and wearing TT. S. Marine uniform, explains situation and introduces Monte Blue. star. ROBERT EMMETT KEANE (2849-50) in "Gossip." Scene: Hotel parlor. Star of legitimate stage is supported by John Miljan. Warner Brothers player, and Claire Whitney, screen and stage player. DAVE BERNIE AND ORCHESTRA (2796) in "Here Cornea the Showboat" Scene: Showboat Numbers : a. "Here Comes th* Showboat"; b. "Oh. You Have No Idea": c "High. High. High Cp on a Hilltop"; d. "Constantrnoide." MADONNA OF AVENUE A: Trailer (2718). Gran; Withers, male lead, as master of ceremonies introduces Dolores Costello, Louise Dresser and other featured players. Shows one of the sets in reproduction. RUDY VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES '7711. Band set. Vallee's radio band. Numbers: a. ' Down the Field"; b. "Deep Night"; c "Cutside." CLARENCE TISDALE (766). Scene: Southern plantation. Tisdale. negro singer, presents these numbers: a. "The Sweetness of Tour Song": b. "Bye and Bye"; c "Ofc. Didn't It Bain." HARRY HORLICK AND GYPSIES '753). Scene: Band set. Horllck and his A. A P. Gypsies, are on a national radio hook-up weekly. Numbers : a. ' 'Two Guitars" ; b. "Black Eyes"; c "Chiquita"; d. "March of the Toys": e. "Gypsy Love Song." RAYMOND HITCHCOCK (760) In "An Evening at Home with Hitchy." Scene: Living room. Number: a. "Hera Comes the Groom." BERNIE CUMMINS AND ORCHESTRA (752). Scene: Band set. Cummins and his Biltmore orchestra present modern soDgs. Numbers: a. "Come On Baby"; b. "I! I Had Ton"; c. "Here Comes the Ball and Chain." MAX SCHMELING (745). Scene: Gymnasium. Heavyweight champion of Germany skips rope, shadow boxes and engages in one-round bout. PAUL TREMAINE AND ARISTOCRATS (T4». Scene: Band set. Jazz band of variety stage. Numbers : a. "I've Been Working on the Railroad"; b. "On the Read to Mandalay"; c. "Chinese Dream"; d. "Fanfare"; e. "Here Comes the Showboat"; f. "Medley." FANNIE WARD '721). Scene: Living room. Sixty-two year old flapper in two numbers: a. "Flapper Fannie" ; b. "Radio Widow." THREE BROX SISTERS, THE (2888) in "Headin' South." Scene: Pullman drawing room. Harmonizing of Southern songs. Numbers: a. "Do in' the Raccoon"; b. "Imagination" : c. "Way Down South." ELEANOR PAINTER (746). Scene: Salon. Lyric soprano of musical comedy and opera. Presents these numbers: a. "Love Is Best of All": b. "Habanera"; c. "How About Me." WHITING AND BURT (741), in "Song Sayings.' Scene: Drawing room. Vaudeville and Ziegfeld's Follies players. Assited at the piano by Edmund J. Weber, composer, who arranged act. Numbers: a. "What Did Ton Say"; b. "The Frog Song": c "That's My Idea of Heaven." HOPE HAMPTON (740) in the Fourth Act of Massenet's Opera . ' "Manon. ' ' Scene : Salon. Former motion picture star is assisted by four principals, chorus and the Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. MISS MARCELLE '716). Scene: Drawing room set VaudevUle comedienne, in brown-face mafeeup, renders syncopated songs in southern dialect. Numbers: a. "Shine": b. "If I Never See You Again"; c. "My Troubles Are Over." LOVE AND THE DEVIL: Score (3111-17). Synchronized by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3111 to 3117 inclusive. Reels 1 to 7. First National-Vitaphone production. DAVE BERNE (2797). Scene: Drawing room set. Directs own orchestra. Numbers: a. "Happy-Go -Lucky Lane"; b. ■Down Where the Sun Goes Down"; c "St. Louis Blues", d. "San." HOLLI NGS WORTH AND CRAWFORD (2753), in "Bedtime." Scene: The family boudoir. Short sketch of sleepy husband and nagging, jealous wife. TAL HENRY *732l. Scene: Band set. With His North Carolinians Orchestra. Has played at college proms and over the radio. Benders these numbers: a. "Come On Baby": b. ' Shame On You"; c "Milenberg Joys." MAL HALLETT (730). Scene: Band set. Furnishes Jazs program with his "Way Down East OrchesTra." Numbers: a. "Lots of Mama"; b. "Mother Machree"; c. "War Medley." GREEN'S FAYDETTS (710). Scene: Band set. "Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts" from vaudeville. Numbers: a. "Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now"; b. "Sweet Mystery of Life": c. "Changes." CHILDREN OF THE RITZ: Score (3071-77). Synchronised score by Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra. Numbers 3071 to 3077, inclusive. Reels 1 to 7. First National-Vitaphone production. GUIDDO DEIR0 (2968). Scene: Living room. Pianoaccordionist in these numbers: a. "Romeo and Juliet"; b. "Drigo's Serenade." DIVINE LADY. THE: Trailer (2967). Milton Sills makes introductory remarks and shots from the picture are shown, Co ruin e Griffith, the star, also speaks. First NationalVitaphone production.