The Film Daily (1929)

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IN The John Boles of "Desert Song" The John Boles of "Rio Rita" The star with the richest singing voice on the screen • . . the star of whom Photoplay says, in the December issue: "Of all the meteors that have flashed across the Hollywood skies, none in history has scooted brighter and faster than John Boles." HEREAFTER you can get John BolesNta Universal Pictures — and only in Universal Pictures. • .Your customers will be asking for him more and more every day . • . and he will give you sensational results such as you have not had for many a day> He is a big star in his own right. He apes no one. He has the youth, the good looks, the acting ability and the magnificent voice which form such a rare combination in this era of talking and singing pictures. He would have been a star in the days of silent pictures, but the talkies gave him another avenue down which to make his march of triumph. . • Practically every producer has wanted to borrow John Boles from Universal. . . While we were looking for proper stories for him, we let one company have his services in "The Desert Song". . • another company in "Rio Rita.". . Then we found the stories . . . and John Boles became strictly a Universal luminary. . • Now you can book him in MOONLIGHT MADNESS . . . and THE SONG OF PASSION . . . Two pictures bound to send him to dizzier star-heights than ever • • . two pictures proving further what we mean by GREATER UNIVERSAL. IN6 SEASON STARTS NOW »