Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

12 FILM BUYER SECTION November 15, 1930 THEME: Tlie story of a girl who has too much money, a fast roadster and a selfish viewpoint. •MARRIAGE PLAYGROUND, THE (CD-AT)..66I0 7182 (B) December 21. 1929. (NP) December 21, 1923. With Mary Brian, Frederic March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon. Kay Francis, Wmiam Austin, Seena Owen. Little Mitzi. Billy Seay Phillippe de Lacey. Anita Louise. Ruby Parsley, Donald Smith, Jocelyn Lee, Maude Turner Gordon. David Newell. THEME: The theme deals with one of Cupid s vagaries. Charles SeUon, Clara Blandick Morgan Farley. Helen Chadwick, William B. Davidson. Lugene Palette, George Fawcett. THEME: The sunny side of American family life, presented humorously and humanly. 'M^ErNovImberC?6?Y929:"^ January 11 1930. With George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, Warner Oland. Raymond Hatton. Dorothy Revier. Morgan Farley. O. P. Heggie. Charles Sellon E. H. Calvert. John Cromwell. THEME: A gunman returns from the war a hero, and remains a hero. "°SiE <£££^.<miSot <npT ^eptSnbersnmW97' Jack Buchanan. Jeanette MaeDonald. Zasu Pitts. Tyler Brooks Claud Allister. Edgar Norton. John Roche, Albert Conti. Helen Garden, Donald Novis. David Percy, Erik Bey. . , THEME: The story of a count who poses as a hairdresser to win the love of a countess. MYSTERIOUS DR. FU MANCHU, THE (My-AT) 7663 (S) August 10, 1929. (NP) August 20, 1929. With Warner Oland, Jean Arthur. Neil Hamilton. O P Heggie, William Austin. Claude King. Charles Stevenson, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Selbie. Charles Biblyn, Donald McKenzie, Lawford Davidson. Lask Winters. Charles Stevens, Chapel Dosset. Tully THEME:' A Chinese picture with most of the action taking place in London. ONLY THE BRAVE (D-AT) ._...-. --• ~ -■■--■• 60M (R) March 8. 1930. With Gary Cooper. Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, James Neill. Morgan Farley. Guy Oliver Virginia Bruce. William Le Maire. Freeman S. Wood. John H. Elliott. THEME A young Union cavalry man who. disappointed In love, volunteers to go as a spy into the Confederate lines. PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (R) »-• -• 9I2S (NP) May 10, 1930. With Richard Arien. Jean Arthur William Austin. George Bancroft, Clara Bow. Evelyn' Brent, Mary Brian. Clive Brook. Virginia Bruce Nancy Carroll. Ruth Chattertou. Maurice Chevalier. Gary Cooper. Leon Errol, Stuart Erwin. Kay Francis. Skeets Gallagher, Harry Green. Mitzi Green, James Hall. Phillips Holmes. Helen Kane. Dennis King. Abe Lyman and Band. Frederic March, Nino Martini. Mitzi Mayfair, David Newell. Jack Oakie, Warner Oland. William Powell. Charles THEME: This picture Is described as a talking, singing and dancing festival of the stars. POINTED HEELS (D-AT) 5689 (R) December 21. 1929. ""with William Powell. Fay Wray Helen Kane, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Phillips Holmes. Adrienne Dore. Eugene Palette. THEME: A Etory of the stage. aUE|)N Aug^t" ^uk'^SST^SSSTSTv^mSx^ Charles Ruggles. Frank Morgan. Stanley Smith. Ginger Rogers. Helen Carrington, Theresa Maxwell Conover. Betty Garde. Nina Ollivette, Rudy Cameron. THEME: The eternal bickering of two partners in the feminine garter business over which one is responsible for their success. RETURN OF DR. FU MANCHU. THE (My-AT). ... 6576 B) May 17. 1930. (NP) May 10. 1930. With Warner Oland. Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur 0. P. Heggie, William Austin, Evelyn Hall. David Dunbar. Tetsu Komai. Toyo Ita. Ambrose Barker. THEME: .More and stranger adventure of the Insidious one. •RIVER OF ROMANCE, THE (CD-AT). .7028 7009 (B> July 29. 1929. (NP) August 3. 1929 With Charles (Buddy) Rogers. Mary Brian. June Coilyer, Henrv B Walthall. Wallace Beery. Fred Kohler. Natalie Kingston, Mrs. George Fawcett. Anderson Lawler, George Reed. ROADHOUSE NIGHTS (CD-AT) ^ .................... 7202 (B) February 22, 1930. (NP) March 1. 1930. Sound-on-film. With Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles. Fred Kohler. Jimmy Durante. Fuller Mellish. Jr. Leon Donnelly. Tammany Young. Joe King, Lou Clayton. Eddie Jackson. THEME: A story of a newspaper reporter breaking into a madhouse for a story. SAFETY IN NUMBERS (CD-AT. S)..-. — --7074 (B) June 21, 1930. (NP) May 3. 1930. With Charles Rogers, Josephine Dunn, Roscoe Karris. Virginia Bruce, Carol Lombard. Katherine Crawford. THEME: Three beauties of the Broadway stage try to mother Buddy Rogers. SANTA FE TRAIL. THE (W-AT) ...-. 5839 (NP) August 30, 1930. With Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno. Eugene Pallette. Mitzi Green Junior nurlrin. Hooper Atchley, Luis Alberni. Lee Shumway. THEME The story of a land poor Senor. a mortgage grabbing cafe proprietor and a near massacre by Indians. SAP FROM SYRACUSE. THE (C-AT. S> 6108 (B) July 26. 1930. With Jack Oakie. Ginger Rogers, Granville Bates. George Barbier. Sidney Riggs. Betty Starbuck. Veree Teasdale. J. Malcolm Dunn, Bernard Jukes. Walter Fenner. Jaok Daley. THEME: It is a story of a sap, a group of practical jokers, a pair of crooks, a girl and a mine. •SARAH AND SON (D-AT) -__....-__—..--. ^it;;,6868 (B) March 2, 1930. (NP) March 2. 1930. With Ruth Chatterton, Frederic March. Fuller Mellish. Jr., Phillip de Lacy. THEME: A story of mother love. SEA GOD, THE (CD-AT) ....... ...6534 (B) September 13, 1930. (NP) August 23. 1930. With Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette, Ivan Simpson, Robert Gleckler. THEME: A tale of rivalry to the d«ith between an old-fashioned villain and a new-fashioned hero, both adventurers and both skippers of South Sea trading vessels. •SEVEN DAYS LEAVE (D-AT) — 6507 7300 (B) January 25, 1929. (NP) February 1. 1930. With Garv Cooper. Beryl Mercer. Dalsey Belmore. Nora Cecil, Temple Plgett, Arthur Hoyt, Arthur Metcalfe. SHADOW OF THE LAW (D-AT) ...6120 (B) June 14, 1930. (NP) June 28. 1930. With William Powell, Marion Schilling. THEME: William Powell tries to go straight after a spectacular jail break. •SILENT ENEMY, THE (D) 7551 (R) August 2. 1930. THEME: The story of the enemy that has long confronted the red skinned natives of the Hudson Bay country. •SLIGHTLY SCARLET (D-AT) 5234 6204 (B) February 22. 1930. (NP) March 8, 1930. Sound-on-fllm. With Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas Eugene Palette. Helen Ware. Virginia Bruce. Henry Wadsworth, Claud Allister, Christiane Yves. ' Morgan Farley. THEME: A charming American girl and a debonair Englishman flirt in Paris. SOCIAL LION, THE (C-AT) ... -.-.-.--5403 (B) June 7. 1930. (NP) June 21. 1930. (With Jack Oakie. Mary Brian. Skeets Gallagher. Olive Borden. THEME: Smart cracking Jack Oakie in a story or an amateur pugilist trying to go society. •STREET OF CHANCE (D-AT). 5962 7023 (R) February 8. 1930. Sound-on-fllm. With William Powell. Jean Arthur. Kay Francis. Regis Toomey Stanley Fields, Brooks Benedict, Betty Francisco, John Bisso. Joan Standing, Maurice Black, Irving Bacon. , THEME: The story of the all-absorbing power In a man's life — gambling. •SWEETIE (CD-AT) ....6303 8459 (R) November 2. 1929. (NP) December 7, 1929. With Nancy Carroll. Stanley Smith. Helen Kane, Joseph Depew Jack Oakie. William Austin. Stuart Erwin Wallace MaeDonald, Alleen Manning. THEME: A high school picture In which football plays a big part. TrYAN THF (D.AT) 7142 (R) May 10, 1930' (NP) May 24, 1930. With Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn. THEME: Touching story of boy who cannot deceive another's mother. TRUE TO THE NAVY (CD-AT, S )......... -•••• 639» (B) May 31. 1930. (NP) May 31. 1930. With Clara Bow. Harry Green. Frederlo March. Sam Hardy. THEME: The gobs have a swell time trying to keep up with Clara Bow. VAGABOND KING. THE (D-PT, ME) ...__ — — »~-**<3 (B) April 19. 1930. (NP) March 1. 1930. With Dennis King. Jeanette MaeDonald. O. P. Heggie. Lillian Both, Warner Oland, Arthur Stone, Thomas TWckctts THEME: Based on the life of Francois Villon, a Parisian poet who lived in the 15th century. •VIRGINIAN, THE (D-AT).......-..-..-...... 7404 8717 (B) November ». 1929. (NP) January 18, 1930. With Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Bichard Arlen, Mary Brian. Chester Conklln. Eugene Palette, E. H. Calvert. Helen Ware. Victor Potel. Tex Young. Charles St6V6DS THEME A rustler type of western, with Texas as the setting. A tyrfcal story of the cattle ranches in the latter half of the nineteenth century. WHY BRING THAT UP (CD-AT) 6124 7982 (B) October 12. 1929. Sound on disc. (NP) November 2, 1929. With Moran and Mack. Evelyn Brent, Harry Green. Bert Swor. Freeman S. Wood, Lawrence Leslie. Helene Lynch, Selmer Jackson, Jack Luden. Monte Collins, Jr.. George Thompson, Eddie Kane, Charles Hall. •WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH POLE (Jrav-PT. M).-.74ll (B) June 28, 1930. (NP) June 28. 1930 THEME: The complete pictorial record of the famous Byrd expedition. •YOUNG EAGLES (D-AT).. ...........6710 64°* (B) April 5. 1930. (NP) March 22, 1930. With Charles (Buddy) Rogers. Jean Arthur Paul Lukas. Stuart Erwin. Frank Ross. Jack Luden. Freeman Wood. Gordon De Main, George Irving. Stanley Blystone. THEME: An air epic. YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN (CD-AT) ... .----.7306 (R) May 17. 1930. With Claudette Colbert Norman Foster. Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles, Leslie Austin, Four Aalbv Sisters, H. Dudley Hawley. THEME: The story of a young sports writer ana nis motion picture columnist wife, whose aggressiveness keeps the family in funds. A drink of poison liquor and temporary blindness afford the climax or the story. i Pathe Silent Disc Film AWFUL TRUTH. THE (CD-AT) -6229 6124 (B) August 16. 1929. (NP) September 7. October 19 1929 With Ina Claire. Henry Daniels^ Theodore Von Eltz, Paul Harvey. Blanche Frederic!. Judith Vosselli. John Roche. . THEME: Quarrels and jealousy result in divorce, with neither the wife nor the husband desiring It. Amends are made, they remarry and sail for Pans on their second honeymoon. BEYOND VICTORY (D-AT) —~-~ ■"■•■■•• (R) November 30, 1930. William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees. James Gleason. Fred Scott, Russel Gleason. Lew Cody, Zasu Pitts, Dorothy Burgess, June THEME Five men facing death on the battlefield go back home on the wings of remembrance. •BIG NEWS (My-AT) —.6950 6130 6028 (B i September 7. 1929. With Robert Armstrong. Carol Lombard, Tom Kennedy. Warner Richmond Wade Boteler, Sam Hardy, Charles Sellon. Robert THEME: A newspaperman Is discharged for alleged drunkenness. Is threatened with divorce and is framed by a gang. He is ultimately vindicated of any wrong doing. BIG M 0 N EY (C-AT) .-»• --•••• ■■■ rvr.-74 ' 5 (B) October 26. 1930. (NP) October 25. 1930. Sound on film. With Eddie Quillan. Robert Armstrong. James Gleason. Miriam Seegar. Margaret Livingston. THEME: A Wall Street messenger boy with a fondness for gambling becomes involved with underwona racketeers and nearly wrecks a tender love romance. GRAND PARADE. THE (D-AT. S)-..~ -.7650 7450 (B) February J. 1930. (NP) February 8. 1930. With Helen Twelvetrees. Fred Scott. Richard Carle, Marie Astaire, Bussell Powell. Bud Jamleson. Jimmy THEME: A minstrel, who has surrendered to drink stages a comeback after his marriage and Is the hit of the show. HER MAN (D-AT) -. --. -7508 (R) September 21. 1930. (NP) Sept. 13-Oct. 4. 1930. Helen Twfclvetrees. Marjorie Bambeau. Bicardo Cortez. Phillips Holmes. James Gleason. THEME: She was his girl and he forced her to bow to his will until love for another blossomed within her heart, to purify and transform her nature. •HIS FIRST COMMAND (D-AT).._ 5577 5995 5850 (R) January 19. 1930. With William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian. Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish, Alphonz Ethier. Howard Hickman, Paul Hurst, Jules Cowles, Rose Tapley, Mabel Van Buren, Charles Moore. HOLIDAY (CD-AT) .._ ..——.8870 (R) July 13, 1930. (NP) June 14. 1930. With Ann Harding. Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames. Hedda Hopper. Monroe Owsley, Wm. Holden and others. . . THEME: A boy. who would rather enjoy life in his youth than settle down to providing for old age. breaks his engagement to a girl who doesn't agTee with him. and goes off with her sister who does. LUCKY IN LOVE (AT, S) 6987 6670 (R) August 17. 1929. With Morton Downey. Betty Lawford, Colin KeithJohnson, Halliwell Hobbs. J. M. Kerrigan, Richard Tabor. Edward O'Connor, Mary Murray. Mackenzie Ward. Louis Sorin, Sonia Karlov. Tyrel) Davis. Elizabeth Murray. THEME: A musical romance. A young American singer of Irish descent, wins the hand of the daughter of an impoverished earl, who is on the verge of losing his castle. NIGHT WORK (C-AT) _ s-T.™5: 75M (R) August 3, 1930. Eddie Quillan, Sally Starr, Frances TJpton, John T. Murray. George Duryea. Ben Bard, Robert McWade, Douglas Scott, Addle McPhail Kit Guard, Georgia Caine, George Billings, Charles Clary. Tom Dugan, Arthur Hoyt, Billie Bennett, Tempe Pigott, Ruth Lyons, Nora Lane, Babe Kane, Jack Mack, Arthur Lovejoy, Marian Ballou. Martha Mattox, James Donlin, Harry Bowen, Ruth Hiatt, Vincent Barnett. THEME: A young man of moderate circumstances unwittingly agrees to support an orphan, but he doesn't mind when he meets the baby's nurse. •OFFICER O'BRIEN (D-AT) ...5440 677( i 6740 (R) February 16. 1930. (NP) March 8, 1930. With William Bovd, Ernest Torrence. Dorothy Sebastian. Clyde Cook, Russell Gleason. Paul Hurst. Arthur Houseman, Ralf Harolde. PAINTED DESERT. THE (WD-AT)-... — --..---... (R) November 20. 1930. With William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees. William Farnum, J. Farrell Macdonald, Clark Gable THEME Two pioneers become enemies after a quarrel over an infant boy found in the desert. This boy. grown to manhood, and the daughter of one of the pioneers bring about a reconciliation of the two after a series of dramatic happenings. PARDON MY GUN (WC-AT, M) 5650 With Sally Starr, George Duryea, Mona Ray, Lee Moran. Robert Edeson. Hank MacFarlane, Tom MacFarlane. Harry Woods, Stompie. Lew Meehan, Ethan Laidlay, Harry Watson, Ida May Chadwick. Al "Rubber Legs" Norman, Abe Lyman's Band. THEME: The intense rivalry between two ranches brings treachery into the annual rodeo contest which is won by the hard riding hero who is rewarded by romance. Featuring music by Abe Lyman's Band. •PARIS BOUND (D-AT)— -.._. -:--668410„06783w.f>,66M (B) August 3, 1929. (NP) August 10. 1929. With Ann Harding, Frederlo March, George Irving, Leslie Fenton, Hallam Cooley, Juliette Crosby, Charlotte Walker, Carmelita Geraghty, Ikla Chase. THEME: A husband and wife, their marriage resented by former sweethearts, become estranged, only to leam that their love is too great to permit of divorce. •RACKETEER. THE (D-AT)... _ 6035 6118 6119 (B) November 9, 1929. With Robert Armstrong. Carol Lombard, Roland Drew. Jeanette Loff, Paul Hurst, John Loder. ,_■__ THEME: The killing of a gangster by police brings love into the life of a young violinist who had been befriended by the gangster. •RED HOT RHYTHM (MC)_ — 5783 6981 6981 (R) November 23. 1929. With Alan Hale. Walter O'Keefe. Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Anita Garvin. Ilka Chase. •RICH PEOPLE (CD-AT) -. -.-6306 ,7122 7074 (B) January 5, 1930. (NP) October 19. 1929. With Constance Bennett. Eegis Toomey. Bobert Ames, Mahlon Hamilton, Hka Chase, John Loder. Polly Ann Young. THEME: A story of a sailor's off day. SIN TAKES A HOLIDAY (D-AT) _ — (R) November 10. 1930. With Constance Bennett. Kenneth MacKenna. Basil Rathbone. Rita LaRoy. Louis Battels. THEME: A young girl, secretary to a lawyer mames her employer In order to foil a designing woman. She blossoms into a society woman of great allure and thereby wins the love of her husband. SWING HIGH (CD-AT, S) ....-.— -...--— .....8 1 00 IB) May 18, 1930. (NP) May 24. 1930. With Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin, Dorothy Burgess, Nick Stuart, Bobert Edeson, Stepin Fetchit, Daphne Pollard, Sally Starr, John Sheehan, Mickey Bennett. George Fawcett. Bryant Washburn, Little Billy and William Langan. THEME: Life and love under the Big Top with all the glamour of the circus as a background. •THIS THING CALLED LOVE (CD-AT)..6687 6875 6697 (B) December 15, 1929. With Constance Bennett, Edmund Lowe, Roscoe Kams. ZaSu Pitts. Carmelita Geraghtv, John Roche. Stuart Erwin, Ruth Taylor. THEME: A girl who would not believe that marriages were made in heaven finds that after all real happiness is in the arms of her husband, rather than in the arms of other men. Radio Pictures (RKO) Silent Sound ALIAS FRENCH GERTIE (Mel-AT) ——••16 (A) April 20. 1930. (NP) April 19. 1930. With Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon. • BEAU BANDIT (C DAT) ..... -....._. .-.-----.----61 69 (B) March 2. 1930. (NP) June 21. 1930. With Conrad Nagel, Doris Kenyon. •CASE OF SERGEANT GRISCHA (D-AT) ----- — -8191 (B) February 23. 1930. (NP) March 8. 1930. With Chester Morris, Betty Compson. CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK (C-AT, S) — — (B) October 25. 1930. (NP) October 4. 1930. With Amos 'n' Andv. Sue Carol. Charles Morton. Rolf Harolde, Edward Martindel. Irene Rich, Rita LaRoy, Russell Powell. „ .. _ . THEME: The story about two Negroes, the Fresh Air Taxi Cab Company, Incorpulated, and Madam Queen.