Pla-Mor Reopens With Larry Huston Band For Spring Season
The Pla-Mor ballroom reopened with Larry Huston and his Missourians nine-piece band. The ensemble will play through spring with plans to extend into summer, offering sweet and jazz numbers and frequent requests. The venue adds Thursday to Sunday dancing 9 to 1 and hosts benefit dances by the Daughters of Isabella and Musketters with Revelers on separate nights. Also notes large counts of horses and mules in the country.
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Paramount Double Feature Delivers Gossipy Reckless and Car 99
In a three hour program Paramount presents Reckless with William Powell Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone mixing wit and melodrama as Tone pursues Harlow amid a fatal finish. Car 99 follows, showcasing Michigan State police methods led by Fred MacMurray to outsmart criminals and rescue a kidnapped girl. The March of Time rounds out the bill.
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Barbara Stanwyck Stars In The Secret Bride At Palace
Barbara Stanwyck leads The Secret Bride at the Palace with Warren William as her partner in a political intrigue tale involving two murders and a governor's bribery impeachment. Glenda Farrell Grant Mitchell Arthur Byron and Douglass Dumbrille co star as the cast. The second feature Red Head follows, starring Bruce Cabot and Grace Bradley in a youth drama tied to a murder and a suicide.
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Paramount Books Big Pictures For Early Showing Here
Paramount Books flags a strong early slate at the Paramount Theater with Sequoia praised as a premier outdoors and wildlife film. Other attractions include Les Miserables with Charles Laughton and Fredric March, Naughty Marietta with Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy, Shirley Temple in Our Little Girl, and more wide releases starring Will Rogers, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, and Maurice Chevalier in Folies Bergere Along with Wedding Night and Gain to Town.
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A Dog of Flanders at Iowa on Wednesday double feature
The feature showcases A Dog of Flanders with Franke n Thomas in the lead. The classic novel adaptation promises broad appeal for both adults and children and remains a long standing household favorite.
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Four Unit Program Opens At The State Today
A four unit program opens at the State theater today and runs through Wednesday. First runs include Harold Bell Wright’s When a Man’s a Man Laurel and Hardy Tit For Tat Betty Boop cartoon Betty Boop’s Prize Show and a Fox News A dramatic western tale adapted from Harold Bell Wright’s novel features a conflict between east and west with a refined western hero who bridges drawing room and saddle.
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Fields Crosby In Mississippi At Paramount Soon
W. C. Fields Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett star in Mississippi at the Paramount theater next Saturday as the first feature of a double bill. Queenie Smith Gail Patrick and Claude Gillingwater provide strong support in the popular cast.
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Iowa theater program features stars and a mystery film
The Iowa theater bills William Hall leading vaudeville with Star of Midnight starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers. A Saar Basin short and a lively variety lineup including Harrison and Elmo blackface comedy, Paul Nolan juggling, Ross Continentals, and Frank Melino’s act complete the program.
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Aristotle’s Teeth Count Sparks Historical Belief Gap
The ancient philosopher Aristotle reportedly counted teeth in a housekeeper and a male servant, claiming four extra teeth in men. This claim persisted for centuries as a supposed gender difference in dental count.
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