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...curtains dropped. The answer obviously enough, is nothing, and if you knew that little item before, you might as well stay away from the University theatre. That is, unless you'd like to watch three stellar comedians in action. Two of them are Laurel and Hardy in a two-reeler. Under the best direction issuing these days from Hollywood and certainly the most intelligent sound synchronization, these two work with pitiful dialogue, antedeluvian gags and no plot...
...response to many requests; the management of the University Theatre is repeating the famous single-reeler, "Killing the Killer", in their showing tonight-advt...
...Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first cinema appearance as an extra in a wild west two-reeler. His face had been smeared with pie in many slapsticks when a director selected it to be a crook-cripple's in The Miracle Man. Alonzo Chaney's present salary, kept secret by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is thought to be about $4,000 per week...
Died. Sam L. Warner, 40, son of a Russian immigrant shoemaker, vice president of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (cinema producers), in Los Angeles; of pneumonia, following a sinus infection. At 16, he and brother Albert Warner, displayed "The Great Train Robbery", famed one-reeler, in lofts and stores of Pennsylvania and Ohio towns. Later they rented a store in Newcastle, Pa., installed 99 chairs, from an undertaker's parlor, conducted one of the first cinema theatres. If there was a funeral, the cinema patrons stood. Last May the Vitaphone Corporation became a subsidiary to Warner Brothers...
...entertainment of the evening will consist of moving pictures, the head-liner being a five-reeler entitled "The Life Line." The comic picture will be a Mack Sennett production, "A Lady's Taylor." There will be music during the picture supplied by an eight-piece orchestra headed by H. DeC. Ward '20 and J. V. Spaulding. '20. In addition to this F. Trainer '19 will entertain the class, and there will be singing by entertainers from Waterson, Berlin and Snyder...