Pot O Gold and a Night of Film at State and Iowa
A slate of new offerings fills this week at the State and Iowa theaters. Pot O Gold stars James Stewart and Paulette Goddard with Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, featuring 16 rhumba couples and a 12 piece band. The program also includes Dead Men Tell, Nice Girl, The Road to Zanzibar, The Devil and Miss Jones, Wagons Roll at Night, Men of Boys Town, Sleepers West, and Melody for Three with a 75 piece concert orchestra. Disney’s Golden Eggs is added as a cartoon attraction.
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State Theater
James Stewart
Paulette Goddard
Horace Heidt
Knights
Stewart
Charles Winninger
Jimmy
Larry Ceballos
Johnny
Charlie Chan
Sidney Toler
Chan
Sheila Ryan
Robert Weldon
Sen Yung
Katharine Aldridge
Deanna Durbin
New England
Deanna
Ann Gillis
Anne Gwynne
Robert Benchley
Franchot Tone
Benchley
Tone
Walter Brennan
Robert Stack
Helen Broderick
Michael Shayne
Lower Center
Miss Arthur
Robert Cummings
Charles Coburn
Dr Christian
Jean Hersholt
Constantin Bakaleinikaiff
Foscha Seidel
You're In The Army on Iowa Stage April 22
A stage adaptation titled You're In The Army Now heads to Iowa on April 22 for a three hour show. Johnny Burke leads the cast with a group of rookie characters, dancers, and comic routines, interspersed with Lum n Abner in Dreaming Out Loud and a star lineup including Frances Langford and Frank Craven.
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Iowa
Johnny Burke
Joe “Ronkie’ Besser
Bill Burt
Lum 'N Abner
Pine Ridge
Ark
Frances Langford
Frank Craven
Phil Harris
Bob Waton
Great Dictator to Show in Cedar Rapids Next Month
The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin may play at the Paramount or State in May as local theater owners consider release timing. Other current films include Citizen Kane at the Iowa theater and That Night in Rio at the Paramount with Fantasia’s Cedar Rapids showing uncertain due to equipment needs.
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Cedar Rapids
Charlie Chaplin
Paramount
State
Chaplin
Adolf Hitler
New York
Orson Welles
Iowa Theater
Los Angeles
Pastor Hall
James Roosevelt
Marlin Niemoeller
Rio
Carmen Miranda
Don Ameche
South America
the Paramount
Melvyn Douglas
Merle Oberon
The
Irene Dunne
Cary Grant
Iowa
John Doe
Gary Cooper
Hamilton
Vivien Leigh
Laurence Olivier
Walt Disney
Eddie Garr to Headline Hellzapoppin Impersonations at Iowa Theater
Eddie Garr, billed as the happiest performer in the madcap revue Hellzapoppin, brings his impersonation act to the Iowa theater Monday night April 28. Born Edward Gonnaud in Philadelphia, Garr imitates a dozen people using mirrors and mime, with Hilly House as his foil.
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Iowa
Eddie Garr
Hilly House
Eddie
Edward Gonnaud
Philadelphia
Harry Lauder
Simple Simon
St. Francis’ High School
Atlantic City
Anatole Friedland
Louise
la Chevalier
Paris
Harold Lloyd
Rudy Vallee
Jimmy Durante
Third Finger Left Hand at the Palace
Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas star in Third Finger Left Hand a romantic comedy showing today through Wednesday at the Palace. Douglas impersonates Loys fictitious husband while supporting cast includes Raymond Walburn Bonita Granville and Lee Bowman. The companion feature is Three Men From Texas from the Hopalong Cassidy series with William Boyd Russell Hayden and Andy Clyde.
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Myrna Loy
Melvyn Douglas
Palace Theater
Myrna
Douglas
Raymond Walburn
Bonita Granville
Lee Bowman
Texas
William Boyd
Russell Hayden
Andy Clyde
Wagons Roll At Night Opens At Iowa Theater
Four star cast heads the action drama Wagons Roll at Night with Humphrey Bogart Joan Leslie Eddie Albert and Sylvia Sidney. Bogart plays a carnival owner trying to shield his sister from the troupe while romance blooms. Co feature Footlight Fever with Alan Mowbray Donald MacBride and Elizabeth Risdon follows. Also showing The Devil and Miss Jones and a Jean Arthur comedy about a department store plot twist.
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Iowa
Humphrey Bogart
Joan Leslie
Eddie Albert
Sylvia Sidney
Bogart
Florina
Silvia Sidney
Matt
Liontamer
Alan Mowbray
Donald MacBride
Elizabeth Risdon
New York
the Devil
Miss Jones
Jean Arthur
Daltons Ride At Rialto Theater Amid Western Adventure
The Rialto opens a three day run of When the Daltons Rode on a double bill with Tugboat Annie. Kay Francis stars opposite Randolph Scott in a frontier tale of the Daltons reprisals with Scott as a young attorney and deputy marshal.
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Frontier
Kansas
Vaileys
Daltons
Rialto
Kay Francis
Randolph Scott
Brian Donlevy
George Bancroft
Broderick Crawford
Stuart Erwin
Andy Devine
Scott
Miss Francis
Marc Dressler
Annie
Marjorie Rambeau
Shrimp Tagged in South Turns Up in Chicago
A shrimp tagged in Louisiana by the Bureau of Fisheries was found in a railroad diving car in Chicago. Another shrimp tagged in the South was discovered by a Hawaii housewife.
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Chicago
Washington
Louisiana
Bureau of Fisheries
Hawai
Men Of Boys Town and Road to Zanzibar at Paramount
Paramount advertises a repeat story Men Of Boys Town featuring Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan and Mickey Rooney as Whitey Marsh with juveniles Bobs Watson Larry Dunn Ted Martley and Darryl Hickman. Also promoted Road to Zanzibar starring Bing Crosby Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in Africa caper comedic adventures with gags and a cannon scene.
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Dorothy Lamour
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Zanzibar
The
Paramount
Hollywood
Paramount Theater
MGM
Father Edward J. Flanagan
Spencer Tracy
Father Flanagan
Mickey Rooney
Whitey Marsh
Bobs Watson
Larry Dunn
Ted Martley
Darryl Hickman
Singapore
Crosby
Hope
Gaga
Bing
Bob
Africa
Nin
Datty
Cannie Hale
Skippy Anderson Leads Danceland Easter Ball Night
Skippy Anderson with music in the Kay Kyser style will headline Danceland’s Easter Ball. Tre big name band Art Kassel and his Kassels in the A.r will perform post Lent. The management urges immediate reservations by calling 3-1227 for table bookings.
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Skippy Anderson
Wail
Danceland
Art Kassel
Kassels
A.r
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