Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

FILM BUYER SECTION November 15., 1930 •PRINCE OF DIAMONDS (AT) _ 6418 (B) March 26, 1930. Sound on diso and film. With Aileen Pringle. Ian Keith. Fritzi Ridgeway, Tyrrell Davis, Claude King, Tom Ricketts. E. Alyn Warren. Gilbert Emery, Frederick Sullivan, Sybil Grove. Colonel McDonnell. Joyzelle. THEME: A romance of adventure. RAIN OR SHINE (C-AT) 8228 (R) August 15, 1930. (NP) August 1(5, 1930. With Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers. William Collier, Jr., Tom Howard, David Chasen, Alan Roscoe. Adolph Milar. Clarence Muse. Ed Martindale, Nora Lane. Tyrrell Davis. THEME: A story of the circus, with Joe Cook the whole show. •ROYAL ROMANCE, A (F-AT) _ -...6359 (R) March 17. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With William Collier. Jr., Pauline Starke, Clarence Muse, Ann Brody. Eugenie Besserer, Walter P. Lewis, Betty Boyd. Ullrich Haupt. Bert Sprotte. Dorothy De Borda. THEME: A farce based on "Private Property." SOLDIERS AND WOMEN (D-AT) _...667l (R) April 30. 1930. With Aileen Pringle, Grant Withers, Helen Johnson, Walter McGrail, Emmett Corrigan. Blanche Friderlci, Wade Boteler, Ray Largay. William Colvin, Sam Nelson. THEME: A story of the D. S. Marines in Haiti. •SONG OF LOVE <D-AT)..._ 7720 (R) November 25, 1929. With Belle Walker, Ralph Graves, David Durand. Eunice Quedens, Arthur Houseman, Charles Wilson. •VENGEANCE (D-AT) _...6I«0 (R) February 22, 1930. (NP) March 8, 1930. Sound on diso and film. With Jack Holt. Dorothy Revier. Phillip Strange. George Pearce, Hayden Stevenson, Irma A. Harrison, Ernest A. Conly. THEME: A drama of revenge in the Congo. "WALL STREET (D-AT)... (R) December 1. 1929. Pringle. With Ralph Ince and Aileen .6336 First National (Sound pictures are on disc only) Silent Sound ADIOS (D-AT) (R) December 28. 1930. Sound on disc. With Richr ard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, Marian Nixon, James Rennie. Robert Edeson, Fred Kohler, Barbara Bedford. Arthur Stone, Erville Alderson and Mathilde Comont. THEME: The Spanish colony in California in the days of the Gold Rush is forced to bid "adios" to its country through being forced out. BAC K PAY ( D-AT) 5672 (R) June 1. 1930. Sound on disc. With Corinne Griffith, Grant Withers, Montagu Love. Hallam Cooley. Geneva Mitchell, Vivian Oakland. BAD MAN, THE (WCD-AT) 7124 (R) September 14. 1930. With Walter Huston. Dorothy Revier, O. P. Heggie. Marion Byron, Sidney Blackmer, James Rennie, Guinn Williams, Arthur Stone, Edward Lynch, Harry Semels, Erville Alderson. THEME: A Mexican bandit tries to act as matchmaker. The humorous way he goes about it forms the basis of the story. BRIDE OF THE REGIMENT (O) 7418 (R) June 22. 1930. (NP) June 14, 1930. Sound on disc. With Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidceon, Ford Sterling, Louise Fazenda. Lupino Lane, Myrna Loy, Alan Prior, Harry Cording. BRIGHT LIGHTS (CD-AT) _ 64 1 6 (R) September 21. 1930. With Dorothy Mackill. Frank Fay, Noah Beery. Eddie Nugent. Inez Courtney, Tom Dugan, James Murray, Frank McHugh. Daphne Pollard, Jean Bary. Virginia Sale. Edmund Breese. Philip Strange. THEME: A chorus girl's rise to fame — from the chorus, to a dancing role In a dive in Africa, to hula dancing back in New York and finally to stardom on Broadway. COLLEGE LOVERS (CD-AT) 5633 (R) October 5, 1930. (NP) August 30. 1930. With Marion Nixon, Jack Whiting, Frank McHugh, Guinn Williams. Richard Tucker. Wade Boteler, Phvllis Crane, Russell Hopkins. THEME: A story of the love of two college football players for one girl, and the near loss of a game because of their tense rivalry. DAWN PATROL. THE (D-AT) 9500 (NP) July 19. 1930. (R) August 10. 1930. With Richard Barthelmess. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr.. Neil Hamilton, William Janney. James Finlayson. Clyde Cook, Gardner James, Edmund Breon, Frank McHugh., Jack Ackroyd. Harry Allen. THEME: A Squadron of youthful aviators risk their lives with the British Air Forces. Barthelmess goes up in place of young Fairbanks and sacrifices himself for love of his comrade. •DARK STREETS (D-AT) 5514 5416 (R) August 11, 1929. With Jack Mulhall. Lila Lee. Aggie Herring, Earl Pingree. Will Walling, B. H. Calvert. Maurice Black. THEME: Two brothers, one Is a cop and the other a crook. The cop lives and the crook is killed. •DRAG (D-AT) 5633 7642 (R) July 21. 1929. Sound on disc. (NP) August 10. 1929. With Richard Barthelmess. Lucien Littlefield, Katherine Ward, Alice Day, Tom Dugan. Lila Lee. Margaret Fielding. THEME: An ambitious young newspaper man and writer finds living with his wife's family intolerable, and flees to a foreign country to seek freedom. FATHER'S SON (CD-AT) '.. Sound on disc. With Leon Janney, Lewis Stone. Irene Rich, John Halliday, Robert Dandridge and Mickey Bennett. THEME: A father misunderstands his son, which leads to a serious circumstance. However, the situation is clarified to everyone's satisfaction. •FLIRTING WIDOW. THE (D-AT) 6664 (R) May 11, 1930. Sound on disc. With Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone. William Austin. Leila Hyams, Claude Gilllngwater, Emily Fitzroy. Anthony Bushell. Flora Bramley. THEME: The amusing complications caused when a spinster announces the death of a phantom husband in order that her younger sister may marry. •FOOTLIGHTS AND FOOLS (D-AT) 6950 I 111 November 10, 1929. Sound on disc. (NP) January 4. 1930. With Colleen Moore. Frederio March . Raymond Hackett. THEME: The story of an Irish girl posing as a French actress, who finds her sweetheart Is a crook, and later weds a rich admirer. •FORWARD PASS (CD-AT, S) 4920 7246 (R) November 10, 1929. Sound on disc. With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Guinn Williams, Peanuts Byron. Phyllis Crane, Bert Rome, Lane Chandler, Allen Lane, Floyd Shackleford. THEME: The story of a boy who resolves to Quit football but, urged on by the girl of his dreams, wins the honors for his college. FURIES (D-AT) _ 6606 (R) March 16, 1930. Sound on disc. With H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson. Jane Winton, Purnell Pratt, Natalie Moorhead. GIRL FROM WOOLWORTH'S (D-AT) 6171 (R) October 27, 1929. With Alice White, Charles Delaney, Wheeler Oakman, Ben Hall, Rita Flynn, Gladdon James. Bert Moorehead. Patricia Caron, William Olmond. Milla Davenport. THEME: Pat is separated from her first love. Bill Harrigan, and goes in a night club as an entertainer. After a bit of trouble Bill succeeds in winning Pat back. GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST (W-AT) 7276 (R) October 12, 1930. (NP) November 1, 1930. Sound on disc. With Ann Harding. James Rennie. Harry Bannister, George Cooper, Arthur Stone, Johnny Walker, J. Farrell Macdonald, E. H. Calvert and Arthur Housman. THEME: A western girl plays cards for the life of her lover — and wins. GOING WILD (C-AT, S) 6436 (NP) December 21, 1930. With Joe E. Brown, Lawrence Gray, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Laura Lee, Frank McHugh, May Boley, Anders Randolf, Arthur Hoyt, Johnny Arthur, Fred Kelsey, Harvey Clark. THEME: Based on "The Aviator," with original situations, gags and dialog. GORILLA, THE (MyC-AT) 5911 (R) November 2, 1930. With Lila Lee. Joe Frisco, Harry Gribbon. Walter Pidgeon, Purnell Pratt. Edwin Marwell, Roscoe Karns, William H. Philbrick, Landers Stevens. •HER PRIVATE LIFE (D-AT) 6488 (R) August 25. 1929. With Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon. Holmes Herbert, Montagu Love, Roland West, Thelma Todd, Mary Forbes, Brandon Hurst, ZaSu Pitts. THEME: Lady Helen attempts to kill herself when she catches the man she loves cheating in a card game. He explains later that he did it to shield his sister. HOT HEIRESS, THE (CD-AT) Sound on disc. With Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Tom Dugan, Walter Pidgeon. Thelma Todd, Holmes Herbert, Inez Courtney and Elsie Bartlett. THEME: An heiress sets out to get her man and the interesting methods she uses form the basis of this story. KISMET (D-AT) 8253 (R) January IS, 1931. (NP) November 8. 1930. Sound on disc. With Otis Skinner. Loretta Young, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer, Mary Duncan, Ford Sterling. Montagu Love and Theodore von Eltz. THEME: The adventures of Hajj, a rascally beggar, whose beautiful daughter marries the Caliph of Bagdad. LADY WHO DARED, THE (D-AT) 5076 Sound on disc. With Billie Dove. Sidney Blackmer, Conway Tearle, Judith Vosselli, Cosmo Kyrrle Bellew, Ivan Simpson and Mathilde Comont. THEME: A beautiful woman is the victim of blackmailers, but through some clever ideas, manages to turn the tables on them. •LILIES OF THE FIELD (D-AT) 5996 (B.) January 5. 1930. (NP) March 1. 1930. With Corinne Griffith. John Loder, Freeman Wood, Patsy Paige, Dve Southern, Rita LeRoy, Jean Barry, Betty Boyd, Mary Boley. Virginia Bruce. THEME: Mildred's husband divorces her and takes their child. Mildred makes a living by working in a cafe. Her child dies and she marries Ted. LITTLE CAESAR (D-AT) 7300 Sound on diso. With Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier, Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Ince, Armand Kaliz and Ben Hendricks, Jr. THEME: Through sheer will and determination, Caesar manages to work his way to the kingship of gangland. •LOOSE ANKLES (CD-AT). _ __ 6 1 90 (R) February 2. 1931. With Loretta Young. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales Otto Harlan, Daphne Pollard, Inez Courtney, Norman Douglas, Eddie Nugent, Raymond Keane. THEME: Story of a girl who is bequeathed a million dollars providing she marries the man her aunt consents to. And what a time she has getting her man. •LOVE RACKET. THE (D-AT) 6118 (R) December 8, 1929. With Dorothy Mackaill. Sidney Blackmer. Edmund Burns, Myrtle Stedman, Alice Day, Edith Yorke, Martha Mattox, Edward Davis, Webster Campbell, Clarence Burton. Tom Mahoney, Jack Curtis. THEME: A story of a girl who reveals her past wrongs in order to save an innocent girl from a man she killed. But her lover asks her to marry him anyway. •MAN AND THE MOMENT (D-PT, ME) 6539 7086 (R) June 23, 1929. (NP) August 3. 1929. With Billie Dove, Rod LaRocque, Gwen Lee, Robert Schable. Charles Sellon, George Bunny. THEME: A boy and a girl marry. They quarrel. He steals her and takes her on his yacht where he teaches her to love him. MISBEHAVING LADIES (CD-AT) 6480 (NP) August 23. 1939. With Lila Lee, Ben Lyon. Lucien Littlefleld, Emily Fitzroy. THEME: It is the story of a fantastic kingdom, which is a reminder of the George Barr McCutcheon themes. MOTHERS CRY ( MelAT) (R) January 4. 1931. Sound on disc. With Dorothy Peterson, David Manners, Helen Chandler. Sidney Blackmer, Edward Woods, Evelyn Knapp, Pat O'Malley and Jean Bary. THEME': A mother's love for her four children, who are all of extremely different characters — one a murderer, one an architect, one a home girl and the other girl a dreamer. MURDER WILL OUT (My-AT) 6200 (R) April 6, 1930. Sound on disc. With Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee. Noah Beery, Malcolm MacGregor, Alec B. Francis. NAUGHTY FLIRT. THE (CD-AT, S) — 5187 (R) January 11, 1931. With Alice White. Paul Page. Robert Agnew. Myrna Loy, Douglas Gilmore. George Irving. THEME: Alice White gets her man, but not before several interesting and exciting events take place to prevent this. _9I00 •NO, NO NANETTE (MO (It) February 16. 1930. (NP) January 11, 1930. With Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Lucien Littlefleld, Louise Fazenda, Liiyan Tashman, Mildred Harris. THEME: Two married men, with strict wives, secretly consent to back a show for a boy and girl who intend to marry. The wives hear of the work, but It ends happily. NOTORIOUS AFFAIR, A (CD-AT) _ 6218 (R) May 4. 1930. (NP) May 3, 1930. Sound on disc. With Billie Dove. Kenneth Thompson. Basil Rathbone, Kay Francis, Montagu Love, Philip Strange, Gino Corrado, Elinor Vandivere. THEME: She was the daughter of luxury, he a musical genius. Though she belonged to him. he belonged to the world. It is a story of how she saved him from himself — for herself. NUMBERED MEN (D-PT) ..._ 5942 (It) August 3, 1930. With Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire. Raymond Hackett, Ralph Ince, Tully Marshall, Maurice Black, William Holden, George Cooper, Frederick Howard, Blanche Frederici, Ivan Linow. THEME: A Jailbreak at prison results in some unpleasant moments for some of the characters involved in the prisoner's lives. ONE NIGHT AT SUSIE'S (CD-AT) 5769 (R) October 19, 1930. With Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Helen Ware. Tully Marshall, James Crane, Claude King. THEME: A young architect, son of a convict. Is kept on the straight road but goes to Jail anyway in defense of his sweetheart who has committed murder. But unknown circumstances bring about his release. •OTHER TO MORROW (D-AT) 5800 (R) January 19, 1930. With Billie Dove, Grant Withers. Kenneth Thomson, Frank Sheridan, Otto Hoffman, William Grainger Scott Seaton. THEME: Story of a girl who marries another man when her sweetheart quarrels with her. But In the end she goes to her former lover and admits her love. RIGHT OF WAY, THE (D-AT) _ 6142 With Conrad Nagel. Loretta Young, Fred Kohler, William Janney, George Pearce, Emmett King, Hairy Cording. Brandon Hurst, HolliweU Hobbes, Olive Tell, Yola D'Avril, Snitz Edwards. THEME: A brilliant lawyer becomes a victim of amnesia as a result of a fight. How his life while In this state affects his real life forms the theme of the story. "ROAD TO PARADISE (D-AT) _ 6926 (R) July 20, 1930. With Loretta Young. Jack Mulhall, George Barraud, Raymond Hatton. Kathlyn Williams. Dot Farley, Winter Hall, Ben Hendricks. Jr., Georgette Rhodes, Purnell Pratt, Fred Kelsey. THEME: Loretta Young, In a dual role. Impersonates a society girl and robs her wall safe. She Is caught but not prosecuted, and thereby hangs the tale. SCARLET PAGES (D-AT) 5937 (R) September 28, 1930. Sound on disc With Elsie Ferguson, Marian Nixon. Grant Withers, John Halliday, Cliarlotte Walker, Daisy Belmore, Neely Edwards. Helen Ferguson, DeWitt Jennings. THEME*: A woman attorney, in defending a case, is confronted with a scarlet page from her past. •SHOW GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD (D-AT) 7213 (R) April 20, 1930. (NP) May 10. 1930. Sound on disc. With Alice White, Jack Mulhall. Ford Sterling. Blanche Sweet, John Miljan. Virginia Sale. Spec O'Donnell, Lee Snumway. Herman Bing. THEME: The story of a girl who, when starred, becomes unbearably temperamental. Shown the stupidity of her attitude by her sweetheart, she goes back to work and becomes a spectacular success. •SON OF THE GODS (D-AT) 8344 (R) March 9. 1930. Sound on disc. With Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Dorothy Mathews, Barbara Leonard. Jimmy Eagles. Frank Albertson. Mildred Von Dorn. King Hoo Chang. Geneva MitchelL THEME: The heartbreaks of a young American who has been reared by a Chinese. •SONG OF THE FLAME (D-AT) _ _ _ 6503 (R) May 25. 1930. (NP) May 17. 1930. Sound on disc. With Bernice Claire. Alexander Gray, Noah Beery. Alice Gentle. Bert Roach, Inez Courtney, Shep Camp, Ivan Linow. THEME: A story of a scheming revolutionist in Russia. SPRING IS HERE (MO 6386 (R) April 13, 1930. Sound on disc. With Lawrence Gray. Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray. Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Inez Courtney. STRICTLY MODERN (CD-AT) _ 5632 (B) March 2, 1930. Sound on disc. With Dorothy Mackaill. Sidney Blackmer, Julanne Johnston, Warner Richmond. SUNNY (D-AT, S) (R) November 23. 1930. Sound on disc. With Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue, O. P. Heggie. Inez Courtney. Barbara Bedford. Judith Vosselli. Ben Hendricks, Jr., Mackenzie Ward and Clyde Cook. THEME An equestrienne flees from the circus to escape a forced marriage. Her adventures form the basis of the story. SWEET MAMA (CD-AT) 5012 (B) July 6. 1930. (NP) July 19. 1930. With Alice White, David Manners. Rita Flynn. Kenneth Thompson, Lee Moran. Lee Shumway, Lou Harvey, Richard Cramer. Robert Elliott. THEME: Alice White rescues her boy friend from the clutches of a gang of crooks. .7008 SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES (D-AT) (R) June 15. 1930. (NP) July 5, 1930. Sound on diso. With Billie Dove, Clive Brook, Sidney Blackmer, Leila Hyams, John Loder, Craufurd Kent. KISS ME AGAIN (D-AT) (R) January 29. 1931. With Bernice Claire. Walter Pidgeon, Edward Everett Horton, Claude Gillingwater. Frank McHugh, Judith Voseli. June Collyer, Albert Gran, "G" Sisters. THEME: A French mannequin becomes an opera singer but loses her sweetheart, but she inadvertently gets him back at a banquet in her honor. TOO YOUNG TO MARRY (CD-AT)..._ 6158 Sound on disc. With Loretta Young. Grant Withers. O. P. Heggie, J. Farrell Macdonald, Richard Tucker, Emma. Dunn and Virginia Sale. THEME: A domineering mother refuses to let her daughter marry, but during her absence the father puts one over on her.