The motion picture almanac (1931)

274 i The MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1931 TALK OF HOLLYWOOD (CD-AT) 6586 SONO ARTWORLD WIDE. (E) December, 1929. Sound on disc and film. With Nat Carr, Fay Marbe, Hope Sutherland. ♦TAMING OF THE SHREW (C-AT) 6116 UNITED ARTISTS. (R) October 2G. 1929. With Mary Fickford and Douglas Fairbanks. TARNISHED LADY, THE (D-AT) PARAMOUNT. (R) May 2. 1931. With Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook. •TEMPLE TOWER (Mel-AT) 5200 5200 FOX. (R) April 6, 1930. (OP) May 17, 1930. Sound on disc and film. With Kenneth MacKenna, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Cyril Chadwick. Peter Gawthorne, Ivan Linlow, Frank Lanning. THEME: The breaking up of a sinister band of jewel thieves, led by an Apache, the Masked Stranger, by a dauntless young man and operators from Scotland Yard. TEMPTATION (D-AT) 6279 COLUMBIA. (R) June 5, 1930. (OP) June 28, 1930. With Lois Wilson. Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan. Eileen Percy, Gertrude Bennett, Robert T. Haines, Jack Richardson. TEXAN. THE (D-AT) 7142 PARAMOUNT. (It) 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. •TEXAS COWBOY, A (W) 5 reels SYNDICATE. (R) February, 1930. With Bob Steele. •THEIR OWN DESIRE (D-AT) 5850 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) December 27, 1929. (NP) January 4. 1930. With Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Belle Bennett, Ernest Torrence. •THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS (CD-AT) 8602 FOX. (R) September 8, 1929. (NP) December 7, 1929. Sound on diso and film. With Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Marguerite Churchill. Fifi Dorsay, Owen Davis, Ivan Lebedeff, Rei Bell. Christiane Ives, Edgar Kennedy. Marcelle Corday, Marcia Manon. Theodore Lodi, Bob Kerr, Andre Cheron. Gregory Gay. THEME: Oil is discovered, and then the family has to go to Paris. The mother wants the daughter to marry a marquis, but they all see the folly involved and the worth of the old home town. THIRD ALARM. THE (Mel-AT) 5707 TIFFANY. (R) November 17, 1930. (OP) November 8, 1930. With James Hall, Jean Hersholt, Paul Hurst. Anita Louise. Hobart Bosworth. Mary Doran, Dot Farley. Nita Martan. Georgie Billings, Walter Perry, Aileen Manning. THEME: A thrilling fire story that is climaxed by an orphanage fire. •THIRTEENTH CHAIR (Mel-AT). 5543 ,„ 6571 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) October 12. 1929 Sound on film and disc. With Conrad Nagel Leila Hyams. Margaret Wycherly. Helen Milliard. Holmes Herbert. Mary Forbes. Bela Lugosi, John Davidson, Charles Quartermaine. Moon Carol. THEME: A murder trial in which the guilty person is found after a hard battle. •THIS MAD WORLD (D-AT) 5446 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) May 3. 1930 Sound on disc and film. With Basil Rathbone, Kav Johnson. Louise Dresser. THEME: A drama during the world war as seen from the German side. •THIS THING CALLED LOVE (CD-AT) 6687 6875 6697 RKO PATHE. (R) December 15, 1929. With Constance Bennett. Edmund Lowe. Koscoe Karns. ZaSu Pitts. Carmelita Geraghty. 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. THOROUGHBRED (AT) -■ 5425 TIFFANY. (R) August 10. 1930. (OP) August 23. 1930. Garon-Barry. THOSE THREE FRENCH GIRLS (C-AT, S) 6760 METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) October 10. 1930 (NP) Sept. 0, Oct. 24. 1930. With Fifl D'Or'sav, Reginald Denny. Cliff Edwards, Yola D'Avril. Sandra Ravel, George Grossmith. Edward Brophy. Peter Cawthorne. THEME: The escapades of three French girls and a useless scion of an English earl. •THOSE WHO DANCE (Mel-AT) 6870 WARNER BROS. (R) April 19. 1930. (OP) July 12. 1930. With Monte Blue. Lila Lee. Betty Compson. William Boyd. DeWitt Jennings. William Janney. Wilfred Lucas. THEME: Underworld melodrama based on the story by George Kibbe Turner. THREE FACES EAST (D-AT) 6520 WARNER BROS. (R) July 20. 1930. (NP) September 13, 1930. With Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim. THEME: The European spy system against the background of the World war. THREE LIVELY GHOSTS (CD-AT* 7488 UNITED ARTISTS. (R) September 15. 1929. With Robert Montgomery. Claud Allister. Charles McNaughton, Beryl Mercer. Joan Bennett. •THREE OUTCASTS (W) 5 reels SYNDICATE. (It) September. 1929. With Yakima Canutt. •THREE SISTERS (D-AT) 6442 FOX. (R) April fi. 1930. (OP) April 20. 1930. Sound on film. With Juno Collyor. Tom Dresser. Louise Dresser. Kenneth MrKonna. Joyce Compton. Addte McPhall. Clifford Satim Paul Porcasl. John Sainpolis, Sidney DtGrey THEME: Three sisters, two of whom marry and the third studies opera. War breaks out. trouble ensues, but after the armistice, everything is righted and happiness comes. •THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES (D-AT) 5166 FOX. (R) April 7, 1929. Sound on film. (TOS) June 8, 1929. With Warner Baiter. Mary Duncan, Edmund Lowe, Earle Fox. Donald Gallagher, Florence Lake. THEME: Man held for murder Is tried, but girl whom murdered man wronged finally confesses that she killed him. •THUNDERBOLT (D-AT) 7311 8571 PARAMOUNT. (It) June 22, 1929. (TOS) August 3. 1929. With George Bancroft. Richard Arlen, Fay Wray. Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer. James Spottswood, Fred Kohler, Mike Donlin. S.' S. R. S. Stewart, George Irving. Robert William Thorne, E. H. Calvert, King Tut. THEME: An underworld gangster who swears revenge, and finally goes to his death with a great understanding. TIGER MURDER CASE, THE (My-AT) 5554 UFA. (It) September 12. 1930. THEME: German detectives solve a strange murder mystery in an unusual way. •TIGER ROSE (D-AT) 5509 WARNER BROS. (BP) June 22, 1929. With Ltpe Velez, Monte Blue. TIME, PLACE AND THE GIRL, THE (D-AT) . 6339 WARNER BROS. (BP) June 22, 1929. With Grant Withers. Betty Compson, James Kirkwoid, Bert Roach. •TIP OFF, THE (W) .. 4109 UNIVERSAL. (R) June 2. 1929. With William Cody, George Hackathorne, Duane Thompson, L. J. O'Connor, Jack Singleton. Robert Bolder. Monte Montague, Walter Shumway. THEME: A robber finally sacrifices himself for a pal who loves the girl he loves, after trying to double cross them both. •TO THE SOUTH SEAS (Trav-PT. M) 5400 TALKING PICTURE EPICS. (R) September 1. 1930. Sound on film. THEME: Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot and their son, Giffy, in an informal account of their cruise. •TOAST OF THE LEGION (D-AT) FIRST NATIONAL. (R) October 12, 1930. With Berenice 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 and loses her sweetheart, but she inadvertently gets him back at a banquet in her honor. TOL'ABLE DAVID (D-AT) _ 7350 COLUMBIA. (R) November 15. 1930. (NP) November 22, 1930. With Richard Cromwell, Noah Berry. Joan Peers, George Duryea, Henry B. Walthall, Edmund Breese, Barbara Bedford, Helen Ware, Harlan E. Knight, Peter Richmond, James Bradbury, Sr., Richard Carlyle. THEME: A simple story of a mountaineer's feud between two families. All talking version of Joseph Hergesheimer's celebrated story. TOM SAWYER (CD-AT) 7646 PARAMOUNT. (R) November 15. 1930. (NP) October 18. 1930. With Jackie Coogan. Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Clara Blandick. Ethel Wales, Mary Jane Irving. Dick Winslow. Lucien Littlefield. Jackie Searle, James Darwell. Billy Maylor, Billie Butts, Charles Sellon. THEME: Adaptation of Mark Twain's famous story of youth. •TONIGHT AT TWELVE (CD-AT) 5172 7051 6984 3NIVERSAL. (R) September 29, 1929. With adge Bellamy, George Lewis, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds, Norman Trevor, Hallam Cooley, Madeline Seymour, Don Douglas, Josephine Brown. THEME: 'Tonight at twelve" written on a letter, causes some dissension in the Keith family, but explanations straighten out the matter. TOO YOUNG TO MARRY (CD-AT) 6156 FIRST NATIONAL. (R) April 25, 1931. Sound on disc. With Loretta Y'oung, Grant Withers, O. P. Heggie, J. Farrell Macdonald, Richard Tucker. Emma Dunn and Virginia Sale. THEME: A domineering motner refuses to let her daughter marry, but during her absence the father puts one over on her. TOP SPEED (C-AT) 7200 FIRST NATIONAL. (R) August 24. 1930. (NP) September 6. 1930. With Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Frank McHugh, Laura Lee, Rita Flynn, Edmund Breese, Wade Boteler. Cyril Ring. Edwin Maxwell. Billy Bletcher. THEME: The story of two clerks from Wall Street who, on a vacation, decide to spend one night "in the money." TRADER HORN (Mel-AT) 11.252 METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER. (NP) January 24. 1931. With Harry Carey. Duncan Renaldo, Edwina Booth. ~ THEME: An African adventurer witnesses strange tribal rites and the romance of a white girl adopted by a jungle tribe. •TRAIL OF '98. THE (D-ME) 8799 MBTRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) January 5. 1929. (NP) March 23. 1929. With Dolores del Rio. Harry Carey. Tully Marshall. Ralph Forbes. Tenen Holtz. Karl Dane. George Holtz. Russcl Simpson. John Down. George Cooper. THEME: The days of the Gold Rush and the boy who makes good to win his sweetheart. •TRAILING TROUBLE (W-AT) 5336 5354 5198 UNIVERSAL. (R) March 23. 1930. (OP) March 29. 1930. Hoot Gibson. Margaret Quimhv. Pete Morrison. Olive Young. William McCall. THEME: Adventures of a cowboy In a city, where he saves a Chinese girl from a gang of ruffians and returns to the ranch, where the plot against him Is exposed. TRAILS OF DANGER (W-AT) 5400 BIG 4. (R) September 30, 1930. Sound on film and disc. With Wally Wales, Virginia Browne Faire, Jack Perrin, Bobby Dunn, Pete Morrison, Lew Meehan, Joe Rickson, Frank Ellis, Buck Connor. •TRANSPORT OF FIRE (D) AMKINO. TRENT'S LAST CASE (My-PT, ME) .... 580O 5894 FOX. (R) May 31. 1929. Sound on film. With Raymond Griffith. Raymond Hatton. Marceline Day, Donald Crisp, Lawrence Gray. Nicholas Soussanin, Anita Garvin, Ed Kennedy. •TRESPASSER. THE (D-AT) 8223 UNITED ARTISTS. (R) October 5, 1929. With Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Kay Hammond. •TRIAL MARRIAGE (D-TME) 6506 6639 COLUMBIA. (R) March 10, 1929. (TOR) April 20. 1929. With Norman Kerry, Sally Filers, Jason Robards, Thelma Todd, Charles Clary, Naomi Childers, Rosemary Theby, Gertrude Short. THEME: A story of a girl who steals her sister's sweetheart and enters a trial marriage with him. The other sister in return married her sister's boy friend. After the excitement they all realize they're wrong and go back to their former love. •TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN, THE (D-AT) 10,000 METROGOLD WYN-MAYER. (R) June 8. 1929. (NP) July 13. 1929. Lewis Stone, Norma Shearer. H. B. Warner, Raymond Hackett. Lilyan Tashman. Olive Tell. Mary Doran, DeWitt Jennings, Winfleld North. Landers Stevens, Charles Moore, Claud Allister. THEME: A boy attorney saves his sister from jail by proving that she didn't kill, as accused. TRIGGER TRICKS (W-AT) 5123 5461 UNIVERSAL. (R) June 1. 1930. With Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Walter Perry, Max Asher, Monte Montague. •TROOPERS THREE (D-AT) 7239 TIFFANY'. (It) February 15. 1930. Sound on film. (NP) February 22. 1930. With Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver, Slim Summerville, Roscoe Karns. THEME: A story of the U. S. Cavalry. TRUE TO THE NAVY (CD-AT. S) 6396 PARAMOUNT. (R) May 31, 1930. (NP) May 31, 1930. With Clara Bow, Harry Green. Frederic March, Sam Hardy. THEME: The gobs have a swell time trying to keep up with Clara Bow. TRUTH ABOUT YOUTH (D-AT) 6235 FIRST NATIONAL. (R) November 30. 1930. (OP) November 29. 1930. Sound on disc. With Loretta Young, David Manners, Conway Tearle, J. Farrell Macdonald. Myrtle Stedman, Myrna Loy, Ray llallor and Yola d'Avril. THEME: Dick's scandalous affair with a night club hostess wrecks the engagement of Phyllis Ericson. but everything turns out all right in the end. •TWIN BEDS (C-PT, ME) 5902 7266 FIRST NATIONAL. (R) July 14. 1929. Sound on disc. With Jack Mulhall. Patsy Ruth Miller. Armond Kaliz, Gertrude Astor, Knute Erickson. Edythe Chapman. Jocelyn Lee. Nita Martan, ZaSu Pitts, Eddie Gribbon. Ben Hendricks, Jr., Carl Levines, Alice Lake, Bert Roach. THEME: A drunk, entering the wrong apartment at night — the apartment of newlyweds — creates a situation which nearly ends in estrangement of bride and groom. •TWO-GUN MAN. THE (W-AT) TIFFANY. With Ken Maynard. •TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING (My-AT). . 7 reels SYNDICATE. With Edith Roberts. Noah Beery. Margaret Livingston. •TWO WEEKS OFF (CD-ME) 6701 8080 FIRST NATIONAL. (R* May 12. 1929. Sound on disc. (NP) June 8. 1929. With Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Gertrude Astor, Jimmy Finlayson, Kate Price. Jed Prouty. Eddie Gribbon, Dixie Gay. Gertrude Messinger. THEME: A comedy situation created by mistaken Identity in which a plumber is thought , to be a famous film star. u UNDER MONTANA SKIES (CD-AT) 5273 TIFFANY. (R) September 10 1930. (NP) October 25, 1930. With Kenneth Harlan. Dorothv Gulliver. Slim Summerville, Nita Martan, Harry Todd. Ethel Wales, Lafe McKee, Christian Frank. THEME: The troubles of a theatrical troupe stranded in the land of cowboys and horse thieves. •UNDER A TEXAS MOON (F-AT. S) 7498 WARNER BROS. (R) April 1. 1930. (NP) April 6. 1930. With Frank Fay. Raquel Torres, Myrna Loy. Noah Beery, Fred Kohler. Armlda. Tully Marshall. THEME: Musical farce all in Technicolor, based on the story by Stewart Edward White. UNDER TEXAS SKIES (W-AT) _ 5119 SYNDICATE. (R) November 15, 1930. (NP) January 17, 1931. With Bob Custer. Bill Cody. UNDERTOW (D-AT) ...6233 5132 5025 UNIVERSAL. (R) February 23. 1930. (NP) March 8. 1930. Mary 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. UNFAITHFUL (D-AT) 7039 PARAMOUNT. (It) March 14. 1931. (NP) February 28. 1931. With Ruth Chattcrton. Paul Lukas. Juliette Compton. •UNHOLY THREE. THE (Mel-AT) 6300 METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER. (U) July 12.