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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1933
Page
11
George Arliss appears as the benevolent monarch in The King's Vacation at the Paramount. He portrays a aging ruler who fights oppression while granting glimpses of distant youth and joy to his people. The performance draws strong audience response.
The synopsis centers on Mr Arliss a courteous monarch who renounces the throne amid a revolt and returns to his former wife as their children grow. The queen relinquishes the other woman and the dragon of royalty moods is softened by a tactful daughter marriage and a happy climax. Three headliners headline the short subjects program with Jack Pearl Burns and Allen and Little Jack Little performing in variety acts.
The two day engagement features Nagana a tropical sickness tale with a distinguished cast including Tala Birell Melvyn Douglas Onslow Stevens and Miki Morita. Bela Lugosi stars in The Whispering Shadow chapter two to accompany the program.
Riverside fire department members met Monday evening to elect officers led by Chief Edward Bushek and Assistant Chief R V Dautremont. Secretary Elmo Knittel and Treasurer Leo Sueppel were also chosen for the new term.
The Iowan hosts a grand program headlined by Rae Samuels the Blue Streak of Vaudeville with Miss B Walker. The bill includes the Nelson family four sisters and a brother tumblers and Risley experts and Freddie Craig Jr the Multi Mentalist. A mystery thriller The Death Kiss features Adrienne Ames David Manners and Bela Lugosi on screen and Joe Hicks plays the organ between features.
The poem envisions a dawn after today where forests beauty and unstarted tasks call for brave action. It speaks of unseen books and crowns of glory awaiting the brave to scale new wisdoms, with a rising sun promising limitless conquests beyond our ken.
Beverly Hills letter praises Admiral Moffett as the propeller of naval aviation and defends the practicality and safety of aviation. Will Rogers notes disarmament talks and urges acceptance of nature's dangers over criticizing aviation.
Impersonating famous literary characters proves tough for actors in The Sign of Four at the Olympic. Jonathan Small and others demand peak performance, while Hoot Gibson stars in Spirit of the West a fast moving western. Added shows include news, comedy and a cartoon.
ESTHERVILLE Iowa AP Joe Berven charged with killing his family at their farm home near here found to be of unsound mind by a district court jury It is expected he will be committed to the Anamosa reformatory ward for the insane by Judge George A Heald. MANCHESTER The Parent teachers association will present a public entertainment at Lincoln school Friday at 8 p m with songs talk Miss Esther Wick county nurse address Supt Co W Bangs violin solo Miss Loretta Maley play Fun in a Country Store presented by Mrs Ida Truak Mrs Ora Sickles Charles Marrs and others
The Anamosa high school junior class under Minnie Stone presents three one-act plays Friday evening at the Niles Theater. The works staged are Neighbors In the Spring a Young Mans Fancy and Elmer.
Dr. Alvin E B Magary, former Cedar Rapids pastor, marks the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church Brooklyn 75th anniversary on Palm Sunday April 9. He has led the church since 1929 and helped author a pageant detailing six key moments in the church life. The Brooklyn church, with about 2000 members, is the largest in its denomination in the area. Magary previously led Woodward Avenue Presbyterian in Detroit 1925 to 1928 and earned an honorary doctor of divinity from Coe College in 1918.
The Chamber of Commerce Young Men's Bureau plans a membership drive with a dinner tonight. The drive splits into two teams aiming for 100 members, a target achieved last Saturday, per Don Hines, the general chairman. The losing team must host a banquet for the winners. The speaker for the evening will be Tobin.
Vinton attorney Hamilton Tobin, a specialist in motor boat racing, will speak in a planned session tied to a boat regatta project for next summer under consideration by the bureau.
In Iowa Eddie South and his orchestra headline a feature False Faces with Lowell Sherman. James Dunn and Boots Mallory in Handle with Care. Palace presents Laughter In Hell with Pat O'Brien and Gloria Stuart. Rialto screens Two Against the World. Olympic shows Sign of the Four Spirit of the West. Tom Kettles, 24, was sentenced to up to five years for malicious injury to a building after pleading guilty in Fort Madison district court following arrest by a night watchman for throwing coal through a coal company office window.
Notice is hereby given that Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company is appointed administrator with the will annexed for the estate of PH Wibaker in Linn County. All persons indebted to the estate are required to make immediate payment and those holding claims must present them duly authenticated in the district court. Jon Stewart, attorney.
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