Plaisance Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA - August 26, 1928

Plaisance Theatre program, August 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois

PLAISANCE
-- THEATRE --
466 PARKSIDE, ½ BLOCK NORTH OF LAKE
Telephone Austin 0441

Matinees Saturday and Sunday
Admission -- Adults 25c - Children 10c

HELEN PAGE AT THE WURLITZER

Program Week of August 26 (1928)

SUNDAY and MONDAY, AUGUST 26 and 27

CLARA BOW
in
"LADIES of the MOB"
with
RICHARD ARLEN

The Women of Hunted Men

GUNMAN'S GAL! Red headed dynamic, absorbing Clara Bow in this flaming drama of dire realities! Revealing, for the first time, the lives of that "other half" of womanhood.

A Paramount Picture

-- ADDED --

COMEDY "LEAPING LUCK" and NEWS

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Plaisance Theatre program, August 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28

Rod LaRocque
in
"HOLD 'EM YALE!

On the day of the big game he lay disabled on a hospital cot --disgrace confronted him.

She showed him how to play the game of life and win.

-- ADDED --

COMEDY "LIMOUSINE LOVE" and NEWS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29

KARL DANE and GEORGE K. ARTHUR
in
DETECTIVES

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

Dane and Arthur have risen like a shot to the top.
This picture will show you just why they're hailed as filmdom's fun-making aces.
Fresh-gags, fast-moving plot -- and our heroes on the trail of an exciting and engaging mystery.

A thrilling, chilling mystery scream

__ ADDED __
COMEDY "NEWLYWEDS FRIENDS" and FABLES

Sept. 2 -- Lloyd Hughes in "Heart to Heart"
Sept 3 - William Haines in "Telling the World"
Sept 4 and 5 -- Dolores del Rio in "Ramona"
Sept. 6 -- Glenn Tryon in "Hot Heels"


Plaisance Theatre program, August 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30

"RANSOM"
with
LOIS WILSON

A fascinating, alluring tale of oriental cunning and a woman's sacrifice.

Destruction hovers over a city while a mother battles with herself playing love and safety of her son against the honor and future of her sweetheart.

- ADDED -
COMEDY "A GALLANT GOB" and SPORTLIGHT

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

Universal Presents

HOOT GIBSON
in
RIDING FOR FAME

Swift action drama with a smashing finish.

A thriller of wild-horse breaking -- horse thieves -- a frame-up and a girl.

Charlie Chaplin in "The Fireman"

Added -- PATHE REVIEW

Sept 7 -- Fred Thomson in "Kit Carson"
Sept 8 -- Matt Moore in "Beware of Blondes"
Soon -- Bebe Daniels in "Hot News"
Richard Barthelmess in "Wheels of Chance"


Plaisance Theatre program, August 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

CHARLIE MURRAY
in
The HEAD MAN

Harry Leon Wilson's thrilling story of a big man in a small town, and his fight to prove how big he really was.

with
Loretta Young
and
Larry Kent

A First National Picture

A tornade of laughter on the plains of politics.

Comical Charlie as a down-and-outer who goes from bad to worse.

Running for mayor was one thing -- and running away from the cops another. But the opposition laughes themselves weak at Charlie's comic capers -- and the rest was easy!

-- ADDED --
COMEDY "HECTIC DAYS" and CRAZY CAT CARTOON

__ Extra Feature at Matinee __

Bob Steele in
"The Trail of Courage"

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