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November 15. 1930
EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD
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•SONS OF THE SADDLE (W-AT) ... ...... .6872
(R) August 3. 1930. With Ken Maynard, Dons Hill. Joe Girard, Francis Ford. Harry Todd.
SPURS ..._ 5303
<R) July 20. 1930. (NP) September 6. 1930. With Hoot Gibson and Helen Wright.
THEME: Conflict of two men for love of the same girl whose choice Is not made until the storm reveals It to her.
STORM. THE (D-AT) _ ... 7203
(R) August 18. 1930. (NP) August 30. 1930. With Lupe Yelez, Paul Cavanagh. William Boyd. Alphonz Ethier. Ernie S. Adams.
THEME: The story of two men and a girl marooned by storms in a lonely cabin in the Northwest.
•TRAILING TROUBLE (W-AT) 5336 5354 5198
(R) March 23. 1930. Hoot Gibson. Margaret Quinby, Pete Morrison. Olive Young, William McCaU. THEME: Adventures of cowboy in city, where he saves Chinese girl from gang of ruffians and returns to ranch, where plot against him Is exposed.
TRIGGER TRICKS (W-AT) 5123 5481
(R) June 1. 1930. With Hoot Gibson. Sally Ellers Walter Perry, Max Asher. Monte Montague.
•UNDERTOW (D-AT) .6233 5132 5025
IB) February 23. 1930. (NP) March 8. 1930. Marv Nolan. Robert Ellis. John Mack Brown. THEME: The wife of a lighthouse keeper thinks she wants to run away when her husband becomes blind, but she realizes at the end that she was wrong.
•WHAT MEN WANT (D-AT) 6041
(R) July 13. 1930. With Pauline Starke, Ben Lyon. Hallam Cooley. Robert Ellis, Barbara Kent, Carmelita Geraghty.
THEME: Sister gives up the man she loves so that the younger sister may wed him.
WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU (D-AT) 7549
(R) June 1, 1930. (NP) June 14. 1930. With Lenl Rlefenstahl. B. Spring. Ernst Peterson.
•WHITE OUTLAW (WC-ME) 4541
(R) May 25. 1930. Re-issue. Jack Hoxie. Marcellne Day William Welsh, Duke Lee. Floyd Shackleford. Charlie Brinley.
THEME: A cowboy befriends a wild horse, and breaks up a gang of horse rustlers.
•YOUNG DESIRE (D-AT) 6110 6529
(R) June 15. 1930. With Mary Nolan. William Janney, Mae Busch, Ralph Harrold, Claire McDowell. George Irving.
THEME: Dancing girl in carnival show gives up marriage with college youth rather than ruin his career, and dies In spectacular leap from balloon, freeing the man she loves.
GOLDEN DAWN ( MC) ■••• 7447
(R) June 14. 1930. With Walter Woolf. Vivienne
Gentle, Lupino Lane, Nigel de Brulier, Otto Nina Quartero, Sojin,
Warner Brothers
Silent Sound
AVIATOR. THE (CD-AT) 6743
(NP) January 18, 1930. With Edward Everett Horton. Patsy Ruth Miller. Armand Kallz. Johnny Arthur. Lee Moran, Edward Martindel. Phillips Smalley, William Norton Bailey.
BARBER JOHN'S BOY (CD-AT)
(NP) October 4. 1930. Phillips Holmes. Lucille Powers. George Marion, Grant Mitchell. Dwitrht Frye. Barbara Weeks. Russell Simpson. Paul Nicholson, Otis Harlan. Robert Emmett O'Connor. Charles Sellon. James Neil, Johnny Larkin. THEME: The story of a sensitive boy and his stubborn refusal to accept his father, a prison barber, on the latter's pardon from the big house after 18 years.
BIG BOY (MC)..._ _ 6275
(R) September 6, 1930. (NP) September 20. 1030. With Al Jolson. Claudia Dell. Louise Closser Hale. T,lovd Hughes, Eddie Phillips. Lew Harvey. Franklin Batle, John Harron, Tom Wilson, Carl White, Colin Campbell, Noah Beery. THEME: Al Jolson in the role of a lovable Jockey.
CAPTAI N THUNDER (CD-AT) ..._ _.._
(NP) September 27, 1930. With Victor Varconi, Fay Wray. Charles Judels, Natalie Moorhead, Don Alvarado. Robert Elliott, Bert Roach, Frank Campeau, John St. Polis. Robert Emmett Keane. THEME: The exploits of a Robin Hood who breaks prison doors and feminine hearts.
CO U RAG E (D-AT) 6639
(NP) May 31. 1930. With Belle Bennett, Marian Nixon. Richard Tucker, Leon Janney. THEME: A drama of mother love and the struggle of a woman whose children are taken from her.
DANCING SWEETIES (CD-AT) — 5656
(R) Julv 19, 1930. (NP) August 23. 1930. With Grant Withers. Sue Carol, Edna Murphy, Kate Price.
THEME: Romanoe revolving around a dancing contest
•DISRAELI (D-AT) ._ __ _ ..-.8044
(R) November 1. 1929. (NP) December 14, 1929. With George Arllss, Joan Bennett, Anthony Bushnell, Doris Lloyd.
THEME: Historical drama of the life of the. onetime prime minister of England and author.
DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS (D-AT) — ..
(R) October 25, 1930. (NP) October 4, 1930. With James Hall. Irene Delroy, Lew Cody, Natalie Moorhead^ Edward Martindel, Margaret Seddon. THEME: Drama 15 minutes before the final edition, while New York is asleep, with the newspaper the clearing house for the triumphs and tragedies of the world.
DOORWAY TO HELL (D-AT) ..
(R) October 18, 1930. (NP) Sept. 13-Nov. 8, 1930. With Lewis Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews, Leon Janney, James Cagney.
THEME: A story of hijackers in the beer running racket dominated by an underworld king with a Napoleonic complex.
•DUMBBELLS IN ERMINE (CD-AT) _ — 5200
(R) May 10, 1930. With Robert Armstrong. Barbara Kent, Beryl Mercer, James Gleason, Clayde Gilllngwater, Julia Swayne Gordon. Arthur Hoyt, Mary Foy. THEME: Comedy-drama adapted from the stage play. "Weak Sisters." by Lynn Starling.
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•EVIDENCE (D-PT)
(NP) October 26, 1929. With Pauline Frederick, Lowell Sherman, Conway Tearle.
THEME: A lawyer believes the evidence against his wife instead of believing her.
•GENERAL CRACK (D-AT) 9809
(R) January 25, 1930. With John Barrymoe.
Segal, Noah Beery. Alice Marion Byron, Lee Moran. Matieson, Dick Henderson,
Julanne Johnston, Nick de Ruix, Edward Martindel^ All technicolor. THEME: A light story with an African background.
•GREEN GODDESS. THE (Mel-AT) 6653
(R) March 8. 1930. (NP) February 22. 1930. With George Arliss. Alice Joyce, H B. Warner. Ralph Forbes, David Tearle, Betty Boyd, Reginald Sheffield. Nigel de Brulier, Ivan Simpson.
THEME: A suave and graceful Indian rajah plots a charming end for three English travelers In a plane crash — death for one, tortures for the second, and life in his castle with him for the third — a woman. From William Archer's stage play.
•HEARTS IN EXILE (D-AT) 7877
(R) August 14. 1929. (NP) December 7. 1929. With Dolores Costello, Grant Withers, James Kirkwood. THEME: Exiled to Siberia, the picture portraying the march through the snowy wastes, the life of political exiles, the domestic side of existence in the frozen north.
■HOLD EVERYTHING ( M C) 75 1 3
(R) May 1, 1930. (NP) March 29, 1930, May 3. 1930. With Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown. Sally O'Neil. Dorothy Revler. Georger Carpentier. Bert Roach. Edmund Breese.
THEME: All-Technicolor production from the musical comedy of the same name, with additional music by Henderson and Brown,
•IS EVERYBODY HAPPY? (D-AT. M)..._ 7371
(NP) December 21. 1929. Ted Lewis and his band. Also Ann Pennington and her dances.
LIFE OF THE PARTY. THE (C-AT). „ ._
Technicolor. (R) October 25, 1930. With Winnie Lightner. Irene Delroy. Jack Whiting. Charles Butterworth. Charles Judels.
THEME: Two girls decide to go In for professional gold digging.
•MAMMY (CD AT) _ 7570
(R) May 31, 1930. (NP) April 5. 1930. With Al Jolson, Louise Dresser. Lois Moran. Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth. Tully Marshall. Mitchell Lewis. THEME. Tale of a minstrel troupe and Its end man, from the story by Irving Berlin. Songs also by Berlin.
•MAN FROM BLANKLEY'S. THE (F-AT) _ 6167
(R) December 15. 1929. With Fannie Brice. Gulnn Williams. Andre de Segurola. Ann Brody, Richard Tucker, Billy Sealy. Edna Murphy, Arthur Hoyt. THEME: Drawing room farce based on the play by F. Anstey.
MATRIMONIAL BED. THE (C-AT) _.. 6242
(R) August 2, 1930. (NP) August 30. 1930. With Lllyan Tashman, Florence Eldridge, James Gleason, Beryl Meroer, Frank Fay. Marion Byron. Vivian Oakland. Arthur Edmund Carewe. James Bradbury. THEME: The story of an amnesia victim, and the comical situations developing.
MAYBE IT'S LOVE (CD-AT)
(R) September 20. 1930. With Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, James Hall, and All-Amerlcan Football Team.
THEME: Girl, to save her father's position as college president, flirts with eleven glrdiron stars, and brings them to a Jerkwater college town, with sensational results.
MOBY DICK (D-AT)..._ _ 7220
(R) September 20, 1930. (NP) August 23. 1930. With John Barrymore, Joan Bennett. Lloyd Hughes. May Boley, Walter Long. Tom O'Brien Nigel, de Brulier. Nobel Johnson, William Walling, Virginia Sale. Jack Curtis, John Ince.
THEME: It is the story of a man who. revengeful because of the loss of a leg In a whaling expedition, sets to capture Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for his loss.
•MY MAN (CD-AT) _ 6136 9247
(R) December 15, 1929. With Fannlo Brice. Gulnn Williams. Andre de Segurola. Ann Brody. Richard Tucker. Billy Sealy. Edna Murphy, Arthur Hoyt. THEMB: "Big Boy" Is Just a demonstrator but Fannie's big sister steals her from him anyway. When Fannie gets her big chance to sing In a show, "Big Boy" realizes his mistake as Fanny sings "My Man" to him.
•NOAH'S ARK (D-PT. ME) .7752 M78
With Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda. Gulnn Williams, Paul McAllister, Anders Randolf. Nigel de Brulier, Armand Kallz, Mvrna Loy. William Mong, Malcolm White. THEME: The Flood and the Ark, paralleled with the story of modern life heading into the World War.
OFFICE WIFE. THE (D-AT) 5220
(R) August 23, 1930. With Dorothy Maokaill and
Lewis Stone.
THEME: The problem that confronts a man devoted
to his private secretary and not realizing he Is In
love.
OH. SAILOR BEHAVE! (C-AT) 5850
(R) August 16. 1930. With Olsen & Johnson, Irene
Delroy. Charles King. Lowell Sherman. Lottl Loder,
Vivien Oakland.
THEME: Escapades of two American sailors In
Naples.
OLD ENGLISH (D-AT) 7926
(R) September 27. 1930. (NP) August 30, 1930. With George Arllss. Leon Janney. Doris Lloyd. Betty Lawford. Ivan Simpson. Harrington Reynolds, Reginald Sheffield, Murray Kennell. Ethel Griffles. Henrietta Goodwin.
THEME: A grand old sinner gets Into difficulties and debt.
OUTWARD BOUND (D-AT) 7568
(NP) September 27. 1930. With Leslie Howard. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Helen Chandler, Beryl Mercer, Alec B. Francis, Alison Skipworth, Lyonel Watts, Montagu Love, Dudley Digges. THEME: The story of a group of persons on a boat bound for no one knows where. Because of the unusual circumstances one of the men investigates and discovers all are dead and bound for "the other world."
PENNY ARCADE (Mel-AT) (Temporary Title)...
(R) September 6, 1930. With Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp. James Cagney, Joan BlondelL THEME: Weak-willed lad. Influenced by liquor, let* himself in for underworld career ending In a killing.
•RECAPTURED LOVE (D-AT) _ _ 5993
(R) June 14, 1930. With Belle Bennett. John Halllday. Junior Durkin.
THEME: Drama of modern marriage with a novel triangle twist.
RIVER'S END (D-AT) _
(R) November 8, 1930. (NP) September 27. 1930. With Charles Bickford, Evelyn Knapp, J. Farrell MacDonald, SaZu Pitts, Walter MoGrail, David Torrence. Junior Coughlin, Tom Santschi.
SACRED FLAME, THE (D-PT. ME) 6011
(It) November 30. 1929. With Pauline Frederick. THEME: She loves one of two brothers, and when he's crippled and urges her to go about with the other she comes to love him Instead. The cripple's death casts suspicion upon them, but the mother explains she innocently was the cause.
•SAP, THE (CD-AT) 7310
(R) November 9, 1929. With Edward Everett Horton. Patsy Ruth Miller. Franklin Pangborn, Edna Murphy, Alan Hale, Russell Simpson, Louise Carver. Jerry Mandy.
THEME: When the struggling Inventor finds that his brother-in-law has embezzled from the bank of which he is a clerk, and that the cashier has done ditto, the inventor frames a fake holdup, gets his share. succeeds in speculations, and buys out the bank.
•SECOND FLOOR MYSTERY, THE (My-AT) 5268
(R) April 26. With Grant Withers. Loretta Young, H. B. Warner, Claire McDowell, Sidney Bracy, Craufurd Kent.
THEME: Mystery-drama based on the novel. "The Agony Column," by Earl Derr BIggers.
•SECOND CHOICE (D-AT) 6 1 50
(R) January 4, 1930. With Dolores Costello.
•SHE COULDN'T SAY NO (MC) 6413
(R) February 15. 1930. (NP) February 22. 1930. With Winnie Lightner. Chester Morris, Johnny Arthur, Sally Eilers, Tully Marshal. Louise Veavers.
SINNERS HOLIDAY (Mel-AT) 5536
(R) October 11, 1930. (NP) October 25, 1930. With Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp, James Cagney. Joan Blondell, Lucille La Verne. Noel Madison, Otto Hoffman, Warren Hymer, PurneU B. Pratt, Ray Gallagher. Hank Mann.
THEME: A story set against the background of an amusement park and picturing the lives of concessionnaires and centering about the machinations of an undercover beer racket.
SOLDIER'S PLAYTHING. A (CD-AT) _
(R) November 1. 1930. (NP) _
With Lotti Loder. Harry Langdon, Ben Lyon, Jean Hersholt, Noah Beery, Fred Kohler. Otto Matieson. Lee Moran, Marie Astaire, Frank Campeau. THEME: When the business of malting fun and love becomes entangled with army discipline — comedy and romance just after the Armistice.
•SO LONG LETTY (D-AT) 5885
(R) November 18, 1929. (NP) January 11 and February 8. 1930. With Charlotte Greenwood. Bert Roach. Grant Withers. Claude Gillingwater, Patsy Ruth Miller, Helen Foster. Marlon Byron.
SONG OF SONGS (MC) 11692
(R) December 28, 1929. With 77 stars. Including John Barrymore. Monte Blue, Ted Lewis, Richard Barthelmess, Sally Blane, Irene Bordonl. Dolores Costello, Frances Lee, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner. Nick Lucas, Jack Mulhall. Rin-TinTin, Ben Turpin. Grant Withers.
SONG OF THE WEST (O) ...._ _ 7185
(R) March 15. 1930. With John Boles, Vivienne Segal, Joe E. Brown. Edward Martindel. Harry Gribbon, Marie Wells. Sam Hardy. Marlon Byron. Rudolph Cameron.
THEME: The story of a man, discharged from the army, who becomes an Indian scout, kills his enemy by accident, masquerades as a parson, marries a colonel's daughter becomes a gambler, goes to the dogs after estrangement from his wife and finally stages a comeback and Is reinstated in the army.
STEEL HIGHWAY, THE (D-AT)
(NP) October 4. 1930. With Grant Withers, Regis Toomey. Mary Astor, James Cagney, J. Farrell MacDonald, Joan Blondell, Lillian Worth, Walter Long, Fred Kohler.
THEME: A powerful domestic drama with the climax a suicide leap from a train during a flood.
SWEET KITTY BELLAIRS (CD-AT) 5772
(R) August 9, 1930. (NP) September 13, 1930. With Claudia Dell and Perry Askam. THEME: An over-flirtatious girl or Merry Old England over-reaches herself by coquetry.
•THOSE WHO DANCE (Mel-AT) 6878
(R) April 19. With Monte Blue. Lila Lee. Betty Compson, William Boyd, DeWitt Jennings, William Janney. Wilfred Lucas.
THEME: Underworld melodrama based on the story by George Klbbe Turner.
THREE FACES EAST (D-AT) 6120
(R) July 26, 1930. (NP) September 13. 1930. With Constance Bennett and Eric von Stroheim. THEME: The European spy system against the background of the World war.
•TIGER ROSE (DAT) _ -.5509
(R) December 21. 1929. With Lupe Velez, Monte Blue.
•UNDER A TEXAS MOON (F-AT. 8) 74M
(R) April 1. 1930. (NP) April 6, 1930. With Frank Fay, Raquel Torres. Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, FTed Kohler. Armlda. Tully Marshall. THEME: Musical farce all In Technicolor, based on the story by Stewart Edward White.
VIENNESE NIGHTS (O) „ _ 9007
(NP) May 24, 1930. With Alexander Gray, Vivienne Segal, Jean Hersholt, Bert Roach, Louise Fazenda, Walter Pidgeon, June Purcell, Alice Day, Milton Douglas.
• W I DEO PEN (CD-AT) —.634 1
THEME: Comedy farce presenting complications In the life of a mild mannered bridegroom.
Windsor Pictures
HER UNBORN CHILD (D-AT) 8000
(R) December 26, 1929. With Adele Romson, Paul Clare, Pauline Drake, Doris Rankin, Frances Underwood.
THEME: A boy and a girl In love, forgetting everything else.
Miscellaneous
Silent Sound
WHITE CARGO (D-AT)
Produced by W. P. Film Company. Ltd., London. (NP) May 24, 1930. With Alexander Gray, Vivienne (R) February 21, 1930. (NP) July 12, 1930. With Leslie Faber, John Hamilton, Maurloe Evans, Sebastian Smith, Humberston Wright, Henri De Vrlca, George Turner, Tom Hermore, Gypsy Rhouma. THEME: The struggle of white men to become acclimatized In the horrible oven which is West Africa. A forerunner of the South Sea stories.