The motion picture almanac (1931)

264 The MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1931 "A With Helen Twelvetrees. Charles Eaton, Carmel Myers. Earle Foxe, Stepin Fechit. THF.ME: Correspondence school detective solves mystery and marries girl. •GIRL FROM HAVANA (D-AT) 6545 6060 5986 FOX. (R) September 22. 1929. With Paul Page. Lola Lane. Natalie Moorhead. Kenneth Thompson. Warner Hymer, Joseph Girard, Adele Windsor. THEME: Girl solves jewelry murder mystery, and hnally married the sou of the murdered man. who was also looking tor the crooks. GIRL FROM WOOLWORTH S (D-AT) 6171 FIRST NATIONAL, tit) October 27. 1929. With Alice White. Charles Delaney, Wheeler Oakman, Ben Hall. Kita Flynn. Gladdon James, Bert -Moorehead. Patricia Caron. William Olmond. Milla l)a\enpon. THEME: Pat is separated from her first love. Bill Harrigan. and goes into a night club as an entertainer. Alter a bit of trouble Bill succeeds in winning Pat back. •GIRL IN THE GLASS CAGE (D-TME) ...6705 7159 FIRST NATIONAL (Bj Juue 22. 1929. With Loretta Young. Carroll Nye. Matthew Betz. Lucien Littlefield, Ralph Lewis, George Stone. Julia Swayne Gordon. Major Coleman. Charles Sellon. Robert Haines. THEME: Story of a college boy who saves a poor girl from the insults of town bums and after several meetings he marries her. •GIRL IN THE SHOW. THE (CD-AT) 5163 7574 METRO-GOLDWlN-JiAYEll. (Rl August 31. 1929. (NP) August 31. 1929. Sound on film and disc. With Bessie Love and Charles King. THEME: A girl who gets jealous because she is taken from the star role and marries the manager to get revenge on him. GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST (W-AT) 7276 FIRST NATIONAL. (R) October 12. 1930. (MP) November 1. 1930. Sound on disc. With Ann Harding. James Rennie. Harrv Bannister. G«orge 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. •GIRL OF THE PORT (Mel-AT) 6174 RADIO PICTURES. (R) February 2. 1930. With Sally O'Neil. M. Lewis. •GIRL OVERBOARD (D-TME) 7531 7391 UNIVERSAL (R) June 28. 1929. With Marv Philbin. Fred Mackaye. Otis Harlan. Edmund Breese. Francis McDonald. THEME: In which a girl is rescued from drowning, marrying the man who saves her. •GIRL SAID NO. THE (CD-AT) 5722 8382 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) March 15 1930. (NP) AprU 12. 1930. Sound on disc'. With William Haines. Leila Hyams. Phvllis Crane. WUlard Mack. THEME: Misadventures of a young college graduate seeking to establish himself in the business world, and to win the girl of his choice. •GIRL WITH THE BAND BOX. THE... 6000 AMKINO. (R) September. 1929. With Anna Stenn. GIRLS DEMAND EXCITEMENT (R-AT) 6060 FOX. (R) February 8. 1931. (NP) February 14. 1931. With Virginia Cherrill. John Wavne Marguerite Churchill. Helen Jerome Eddy Ralph Welles. George Irving, William Janney. Eddie Nugent. Winter Hall. Terrance Rav. Marion Byron. Emerson Treacy. Martha Sleeper. Addie Mcl'hail. Jerry Mandy. Ray Cooke. THEME: If he won his point and banished the co-eds from Bradbury it meant that SHE had to go too. so he lost the struggle and won bis girl. •GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL (MC) 6780 7727 PARAMOUNT. (R) December 7. 1929. With Mary Eaton. Edward Crandall. Olive Shea. Dan Healy. Kaye Renard. Sarah Edwards. In revue scenes. Eddie Cantor. Helen Morgan. Rudy Vallee. THEME: A girl's ambitions carry her to the pinnacle in Broadway shows. •GODLESS GIRD. THE (D-AT) 9019 9328 PATHE. (Rl March 31. 1929. With Lina Basquette. Marie Prevost. George Duryea. Noah Beery. Eddie (Juillan. Mary Jane Irving. Julia Faye. Viola Louie. Emily Barrve. Clarence Burton. Dick Alexander. Kate Price. Hedwig Reicher. THEMES: Inmates of a reformatory win their freedom through their heroism during a fire. GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN (C-AT) 6708 WARNER BROS. (R) April 18. 1931. (NP) March 14. 1931. With Frank Fay. Laura La Plante. Arthur Edmund Car ewe. Charles Winninger. Tyrrell Davis. Louise Brooks. Joan Blondell. Billy House. Tola D'Avril Margaret Livingston. Charles Judels. The "G" Sisters. Nena Quartaro. Hazel Howell. Ethlyne Claire. THEME: Frank Fay. who has many feminine admirers, finally falls In love with a young American girl. In order to win her he has to prove to her father that he will sacrifice anything, which he does. GOING WILD (C-AT. S) • 6486 FIRST NATIONAL (R) December 21. 1930. (NP) August 23. 1930. With Joe E. Brown. Lawrence Gray. Ona Munson. Walter Pldgeon. I-aura Lee. Frank McHuch May Bolev. Anders Randolf. Arthur Hoyt. Johnny Arthur. Fred Kelscv. Harvey Clark. THEME: Baaed on "The Aviator." with original situations, gags and dialog. •GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY (MC) 9009 WARNER BROS. (R) October 5. 1929. (NP) November 2.1 1029. With Nick Lucas. Ann Pennington. Winnie I.tghlner. Conwav Tearle. Nancy Welford. GOLDEN CALF. THE (MC) 6552 FOX. (Hi March 10. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Jack Mulhall. Sue Carol. Walter Catlett. El Rrcndcl Marlorle White. Richard Keene. 7'aul Page. Ilka Chase. THEME : An artist's secretary, secretly In love with her employer, revert* from her puritanical way« to become a dashing model and by so doing become* the artist'? favorite. GOLDEN DAWN (MC) _ 7447 WARNER BROS. (R) June 14, 193U. (OP) June 21, 193u. With Walter Woolf, Vivienne " Segal. Noah Beery, Alice Gentle. Lupino Lane, Marion Byron. Lee Moran, Nigel de Brulier, Otto Matieson, Dick Henderson, Nina Quartero, Sojin, Julanne Johnston, Nick de Ruix, Edward Martindel. All technicolor. THEME: A light story with an African background. GOOD INTENTIONS (Mel-AT) 6340 FOX. (R) June 29. 193U. (NP) August 2. 1930. With Edmund Lowe. Marguerite Churchill. Regis Toomey. Eddie Gribbon. Owen Davie. Jr.. Earle Fox. Robert McWade, Henry Kolker, Pat Somerset, J. Carrol Naish. Georgie Caine. Hale Hamilton. THEME: A gangster falls in love with his victim and sacrifices himself. GOOD NEWS (MC) 8100 METRO-GOLD WY'N-MAYER. (R) August 23. 1930. (NP) September 20. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Mary Lawlor. Stanley Smith. Bessie Love, Gus Shy. Cliff Edwards, Delmer Daves. THEME: A fast musical comedy adapted from the stage hit of the same name. GORILLA, THE (MyC-AT) 5911 FIRST NATIONAL. (R) November 2, 1930. (NP) August 23. 1930. With Lila Lee. Joe Frisco, Harry Gribbon. Walter Pidgeon. Purnell Pratt. Edwin Maxwell. Roscoe Karns. William H. Philbrick. Landers Stevens. GRAND PARADE, THE (D-AT. S) 7650 7450 ItKO PATHE. (R) February 2. 1930. (NP) February 8. 1930. With Helen Twelvetrees. Fred Scott, Richard Carle. Marie Astaire. Russell Powell, Bud Jamieson. Jimmy Adams. THEME: A minstrel, who has surrendered to drink, stages a comeback after his marriage and is the hit of the show. •GREAT DIVIDE. THE (Mel-AT) 6722 FIRST NATIONAL. (TOS) November 16. 1929. (NP) March 1, 1930. With Dorothy Mackaill. Ian Keith. Lucien Littlefield. Ben Hendricks. Myrna Loy, Frank Tang. Creighton Hale, George Fawcett, Jean Laverty. Claude Gillingwater. Roy Stewart, James Ford. THEME: A boy steals a girl to make her love him. His plot proves successful after three days. GREAT GABBO (D-AT) 9950 SONO ART-WORLD WIDE. (R) October. 1929. Sound on disc and film. (NP) December 21. 1929. With Erich von Stroheim. Betty Compson. Margie Kane. THEME: The rise and fall of a great ventriloquist. GREAT MEADOW. THE (D-AT) 7243 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) January 24. 1931. (NP) December 6. 1930. With John Mack Brown. Eleanor Boardman. Gavin Gordon. Lucille LaVerne. Lillian Leighton. THEME: Heroic exploits, adventure and romance among the early Kentucky pioneers to the era of Daniel Boone. •GREAT POWER. THE (D-PT) 8 reels SY'NDICATE. With Minna Gombel. •GREEN GODDESS. THE (Mel-AT) 6653 WARNER BROS. (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. •GREENE MURDER CASE. THE (My-AT) 6389— PARAMOUNT. (R) August 31. 1929. With William Powell. Florence Eldridge. Ulrich Haupt. Jean Arthur. Eugene Pallette, E. H. Calvert. Gertrude Norman. Lowell Drew. Morgan Farley. Brandon Hurst. Augusta Burmester. Marcia Harriss. Mildred Golden. Mrs. Wilfred Buckland. Helena Phillips. Shep Camp. Charles E. Evans. THEME: Several members of a family are killed and — Well. Philo Vance ferrets out the murderer. •GRIT WINS (W-ME) 4596 UNIVERSAL. (R) February 27. 1930. With Ted Wells. Kathleen Collins. Al Ferguson. Buck Connors. Nelson McDowell. Edwin Moulton. THEME: Oil is discovered, and things begin to happen. GRUMPY (C-AT) 6647 PARAMOUNT. (R) August 23. 1930. (OP) .Inly 12. 1930. With Cyril Maude. Phillips Holmes, Francis Dade. Paul Lukas. Halliwell TTobhes. Paul Cavanagh. Doris Luray. Olaf Hytton. Robert Bolder. Colin Kenny. THEME: The story of a stolen jewel and the successful efforts of a retired London criminal lawyer in apprehending the thief. •GUILTY? (D-AT) 6371 COLUMBIA. (R) March 3. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Virginia Villi. John Holland. John St. Polls. Lydia Knott. Erville Alderson. Richard Carlvle. Clarence Muse. Eddie Clayton Robert T. Haines. Frank Fanning. Ed Cecil. Gertrude Howard. THEME: A drama of social contrasts and adapted from "Black Sheep." GUN SMOKE (D-AT) 5815 PARAMOUNT. (R) April 11. 1931. (NP) March 14. 1931. With Richard Arlen. Marv Brian. Eugene Pallette. Wm. Boyd. Louise Fazenda. H HALF SHOT AT SUNRISE (C-AT) 7059 RADIO PICTURES. (It) October 4. 1930. (NP) September 27-Octoher 18. 1930. With Bert Wheeler. Rolwrt Woolsev. Porothv T,ec. Edna Mav Oliver. Hugh Trevor. E n. Calvert. Alan Roscnr. Roberta Robinson. I.enl Stengel. George MarFarlanc. Eddie DeLinge. John Rutherford. •HALF WAY TO HEAVEN (D-AT) .6254 PARAMOUNT. (R) December 14, 1929. With Charles (Buddy) Rogers. Jean Arthur. Paul Lucas, Helen Ware. Oscar Apgel. Edna West. Irvin Bacon, Al Hill. Lucille Williams. Richard French, Freddy Anderson, Nestor Alber, Ford West, Guy Oliver. THEME: A circus story in which a conniving aerialist loses, not only his job, but the girl he is trying to win. •HALLELUJAH (D-AT. S) 6570 9555 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (It) November 30. 1929. (NP) January 18, 1930. Sound on disc. With Mae McKinney. William Fountaine. Daniel L. Haynes. Harry Gray. Fannie Bell De Knight. Everett McGarrity. Victoria Spivey. Milton Dickerson. THEME: A singer, accused of murder, turns evangelist and preaches against the type of girl he once loved. HAPPY DAYS (MC) 7650 7514 FOX. (It) March 2. 1930. (NP) February 22. 1930. Grandeur (wide film) version. 7514 feet. With Charles Farrell. Janet Gaynor. Will Rogers. El Brendel, Victor McLaglen. Edmund Lowe. J. Harold Murray. Jack Smith. David Bollins, Ann Pennington, George Jessel. Sharon Lynn. William Collier. James Corbett. •HARD TO GET (CD-AT) 5981 7324 FIRST NATIONAL (R) September 28. 1929. With Dorothy Mackaill. Jimmie Finlayson. Louise Fazenda. Jack Oakie. Edmund Burns. Clarissa Selwynne. Charles Delaney. THEME: A girl meets two boys, one's rich, tile other poor. The poor proves to be her man. HARMONY AT HOME (CD-AT) 6550 6395 FOX. (R) February 19. 1930. With Marguerite Churchill. Charles Eaton. Charlotte Henry. William Collier. Sr.. Rex Bell. Dixie Lee. Dot Farlev. Elizabeth Patterson. Clare Kummer. Edwin Burke. Elliott Lester, Charles J. McGuirk. THEME: Father's promotion makes family want to put on the ritz. which they do for a while, but finally decide that the old way of living is best. •HARVEST OF HATE (W-ME) 4719 UNIVERSAL. (R) August 4. 1929. With Jack Perrin. Helen Foster. Tom London. Rex. HE KNEW WOMEN (Mel-AT) 6342 RADIO PICTURES. (R) May 18. 1930. (NP) April 26, 1930. With Lowell Sherman. Alice Joyce. HEADIN' NORTH (W-AT) 5346 TIFFANY. (It I November 10. 1930. (OP) November 8. 1930. With Bob Steele. Barbara Luddy. Perry Murdock. Walter Shurnay. Eddie Dunn. S. S. Simons. Jim Welsh, Jack Henderson. Fred Burns. Gordon DeMain. Harry Allen. Gunnis Davis. THEME: Two cowboys imitate actors in order to get a card shark who is also a swindler. HEADS UP (MC) 6785 PARAMOUNT. (R) October 11. 1930. (OP) September 27, 1930. With Charles Rogers. Helen Kane. Margaret Breen, Victor Moore, Gene Gowing. Helen Garrington. Billy Taylor. Harry Shannon. G. Anthony Hughes. John Hamilton. •HEARTS IN DIXIE (D-AT) 6444 7463 FOX. (R) March 10. 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) May 25. 1929. With Stepin Fechit. Clarence Muse. Eugene Jackson. Dorothy Morrison. Bernice Pilot. Clifford Ingram. Mildred Washington. Zach Williams. Gertrude Howard. Vivian Smith. Robert Brooks. A. C. H. Billdrew. Richard Carlysle. THEME: Story of the negro, trials, tribulations and ambitions. •HEARTS IN EXILE (D-AT) 7877 WARNER BROS. (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. HELL BOUND (D-AT) TIFFANY. (R) March 7. 1931. (NP) February 7. 1931. With Leo Carrillo. Lola Lane. Lloyd Hughes. Gertrude Astor. Richard Tucker. THEME: A gangster falls in love with a girl he saves and then sacrifices his life for her. HELL HARBOR (D-AT) 8354 UNITED ARTISTS. (R) March 22. 1930. (NP) March 15. 1930. Sound on film. With Lupe Velez. Jean Hersholt. John Holland. A. St. John. HELLO SISTER (CD-AT) 6500 SONO ART-WORLD WIDE. (R) January. 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Lloyd Hughes. Olive Borden. George Fawcett. HELL'S ANGELS (D-AT) 103*0 UNITED ARTISTS (Rl November 15. 1930. (NP) May 21. 1930. With Ben Lyon. James Hall. Jean Harlow. Jane Wnton. John Darrow. THEME: The airman and his part in the world war. •HELL'S HEROES (D-AT) 5836 6289 6148 UNIVERSAL. (R) January 5. 1930. With Charles Bickford. Raymond Hatton. Fred Kohler. Fritzi Ridgeway. THEME: Three bandits and i baby girl. HELL'S ISLAND (D-AT) 7462 COLUMBIA. (Rl J"lv lfi. 1930 Wi"' Tack Holt. Ralph Graves. Dorothy Sebistlin. Richard Cramer. Harry Allen. Lionel Belmore. Otto Lang. Carl Stockdale. HER MAN (D-AT) 7421 RKO PATHE. (R) September 21. 1930. (NP) September 13-Octoher 4. 1930. Helen Twelvetrees. Marjorie Ramheau. Ricardo Cortez. Philips Holmes. James Gleason. THEME: She was his girl md he forced her to how to his will until love for another blossomed within her heart, to purify and transform her nature. •HER OWN DESIRE (D AT) 5850 METRO -GOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) December 27. 1929. (TOS) January 4. 1930. With Norma Shearer. Robert Montgomery. I^ewis Stone. Belle Bennctte. Ernest Torrence. •HER PRIVATE AFFAIR (D AT) 568 2 654 3 6440 PATHE. (R) October 5. 1929. (NP) Novem