Green Pastures film review praises reverent, humane adaptation
The Paramount screen version of The Green Pastures stars Rex Ingram as De Lawd and Oscar Polk as Gabriel. Hall Johnson’s choir performs twenty five Negro spirituals while the story blends Old Testament episodes with humor and pathos, elevating the stage drama to cinematic glory.
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Green Pastures
de Lawd
Rex Ingram
Northwestern University
de Land
Richard B. Harrison
Ingram
Earth
Egypt
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Hall Johnson Choir
Oscar Polk
Gabriel
Moses
Frank Wilson
Eddie Anderson
Noah
Aaron
Pharaoh
Grantland Rice
Paramount News
F.C.H
Crecipe fragments for omelet and custard base mix
The text lists steps for an omelet with creamed filling and a creamy sauce, plus a fruit ice cream custard base. It includes ingredients like salt paprika celery salt egg whites yolks milk butter flour and mushrooms or meat, and instructions to fold whites, cook slowly, and glaze with creamed mixture. It also cites a custard base with butter flour milk and eggs, and a frozen dessert method with peaches bananas lemon vanilla and sugar.
Gary Cooper to star in What Ho a Paramount film
Hollywood chatter notes Gary Cooper will star in What Ho a Richard Connell story set for serial magazine run and Paramount release with Rosalie Stewart securing rights for Manny and Gary. Dick Powell eyes a new musical comeback in The Singing Marine. Sam Briskin predicts stardom for Gertrude Michael, and Frank Shields turns down Wimbledon for Come and Get It roles.
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Lotella O. Parsons
Universal Service
Los Angeles
Gary Cooper
Adolph Zukor
Paramount
Emanuel Cohen
Richard Connell
Rosalie Stewart
Manny
Gary
Mr. Deeds
Merrie England
Dick Powell
Gay Caballero
Debonair
Hal Wallis
Delmar Daves
Marine
Frank Shields
Sam Goldwyn
Frank
Sam
Tony
Theaters Show Multiple Films in Iowa and Nearby
At the theaters in Iowa listings note Paramount presenting The Green Pastures and Mark Connelly’s Pu litzer prize play. State shows And Sudden Death and Absolute Quiet. Palace features It Had to Happen and Woman Trap. Rialto screens Roaming Wild and Man Hunt.
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Iowa
Fred Stone
Louise Latimer
Owen Davis, Jr
Tom Tyler
Ricardo Cortez
Margaret Churchill
Rain,Politics and the Farmer in 1936 Debate
Alice Longworth critiques the rain politics surrounding Landon and Roosevelt in 1936. She ridicules the notion that politicians can control weather and warns droughts reveal the limits of political bread and circuses. The piece likens officials to medicine men and notes the public’s skepticism of such claims.
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Albuquerque
N. M
West
Mr. Landon
Mr. Roosevelt
New Mexico
Pueblo
Tugwell
Wallace
Alice Longworth
Surrenders Driver's License After Guilty Plea
Cleo Larkin was fined $25 and costs for reckless driving by speeding with license suspension for sixty days. Virginia Tanner paid $10 and costs for speeding. C. W. Becker paid $2 and costs for driving without a muffler. Charles Jadrnicek fined $2 for blocking an alley. Others listed paid $1 and costs for various parking violations.
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Cleo Larkin
Larkin
Virginia Tanner
Tenth Street
C. W. Becker
Fourteenth Street
Charles Jadrnicek
Seventeenth Street
R. C. McKilwain
H Avenue
Ann Bradley
St. Luke’s Hospital
E. D. Bartosh
Second Street
Texaco Oil Company
George O Sharp Accepts Elmhurst College Post
George O Sharp, a chemistry teacher at McKinley senior high school last year, accepts a post at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst Illinois. He attended the University of Iowa this summer and will begin duties around September 9.
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George O. Sharp
McKinley Senior High
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst
Ill
University of Iowa
Iowa Films Praise and Stars Shine in Local Theater
Review hails Anne Shirley in M liss at the Iowa theater as unusually good entertainment with strong leads. Fred Stone in Grand Jury shows energy and humor, delivering a lively cops and robbers romp. W Murray reports the colored cartoon and Iowa News Flashes as solid adds to the program.
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Bret Harte
Gene Stratton Porter
Harold Bell Wright
M’liss
Anne Shirley
John Beal
Guy Kibbee
Moroni Olsen
Douglas Dumbrille
Miss Shirley
Hollywood
Heaven
Will Rogers
Fred Stone
Grand Jury
Iowa
W. M
Progress of Mutual Insurance Discussed at Cedar Rapids Dinner
E L Poor, managing editor of the Journal of American Insurance, traced the history of mutual insurance in America in a talk to the 1752 club at the Cedar Rapids Country club. About 100 people attended the dinner and a golf tournament preceded the event with Iowa mutual and allied associations represented by several executives.
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Mutual Insurance
America
E. L. Poor
Journal of American Insurance
Mutual Fire and Casualty Insurance
Poor
Cedar Rapids
DeWitt
Iowa Mutual Insurance Company
A. L. Pascal, Jr
Iowa Insurance Companies
John W. Gunn
Employers Mutual Casualty Company of
Des Moines
C. N. Rogers
Farmers Union Automobile Insurance Association of
R. W. Swanson
Ace Mutual Casualty Company of
Robert Good
Allied Mutual Automobile Insurance Association of
Notice of Fairfax Incorporation Election in Linn County Iowa
Notice to voters in the proposed Town of Fairfax Linn County Iowa of an election to elect a mayor treasurer assessor and five council members to be held August 24 1936 at Fairfax schoolhouse The election will decide officials for the incorporated town of Fairfax and those elected will serve until the next regular election The undersigned court appointees will conduct the election.
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District Court of
Iowa
Linn County
Fairfax
Fairfax, Lowe
5Th
State of
District Court
J. Knickerbocker
Wm. Behle
Chas
E. Anes
John Wavra
Frank Moynihan
Wayne Boland
Circle V ranch turmoil deepens as owners clash
Lee Hollister returns to Circle V to find neglect and a failing ranch under manager Lawler. Virginia Blair resists the burden of inheritance while old rivals Milton and Stanley Bradish circle for control. A tense bond grows between Lee and Virginia as threats to the ranch mount.
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Lee Hollister
Circle V Ranch
Joey
Matt Blair
Lee
Matt
Lawler
Virginia
The
Archers
New York
Milton Bradish
Miss Blair
Stanley Bradish
Mr. Bradish
Circle V
Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Pocket-Picking Charge
Walter Swan 22 of Holt Minnesota pleads guilty in justice court to pocket picking at Preston's street carnival Thursday night. He claims someone urged him to commit the theft and awaits district court action in Jackson county jail. The offense carries a maximum 15 year sentence.
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Maquoketa
Walter Swan
Holt, Minn
Jackson County
Justice Court
Leonard Brammelos
Preston
Three Killed Six Hurt In Auto Crash Near Alta Iowa
A Friday night crash three miles north of Alta Iowa killed Albert Bennett 84 of Lincoln Neb and Maude Bennett Sawyer 55 of Lincoln and Mrs F W Ellis of Alta. Six others were injured including Duane Breeding 17 of Alta who drove the youths racing to a farm fire. The dead were Bennett and his daughter. Ellis died later.
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Alta
Here
Albert Bennett
Lincoln
Neb
Maude Bennett Sawyer
Bennett
F. W. Ellis
Ellis
Nine Scouts Set Two Week Canoe Expedition in North Woods
Nine Cedar Rapids area scouts led by Robert L. Dill begin a two week canoe journey in the Superior National Forest with base at Hibbard's Lodge near Ely Minnesota on Moose Lake. They plan to reach Duluth tonight and travel north to Ely then 22 miles to base Camp. They will cross into Canada for a week of Canadian canoeing and return via Birch Lake and a portage route through Emerald Knife and Carp lakes before finishing near Ely. The trip covers about 200 miles with daylight travel and fishing as a major activity. The guide is a Region 10 Boy Scout. the group uses two autos. Participants include Carl Spencer John Ely Robert Rummell Donald Ross George Ross William Holmes George Prastka James Ralston and George Fagen Jr of Anamosa.
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Robert L. Dill
Boy Scouts
Cedar Rapids
Birch Lake
Emerald
Knife
Carp Lakes
Ely
Carl Spencer
John Ely
Robert Rummell
Donald Ross
George Ross
William Holmes
George Prastka
James Ralston
George Fagen, Jr
Anamosa
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Gertrude Michael
RKO
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Mr. Briskin
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Mary Astor
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Songster
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Anthony Adverse
Jack Warners
Europe
Marion Davies
Bunny Deep
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Pola Negri
Ann Warner
Margaret Roach
Mervyn Leroy
Doris
Norma Shearer
Irving Thalberg
Freddie Bartholomew
Aunt Cissie
Claire Windsor
John Warburton
Norma Krasna
Ann Sothern
Sonja Henie
Mark Hellinger
Darryl Zanuck
Jack Chertok
Atlanta
L. C. Roughlin
Ginger Rogers
Bret Story
Anne Shirley and
John Seal
Iowa Theater
Hills OF Destiny
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Gano
Ett Wilew
Stuart Erwin
Lionel Atwili
Ann Loring
Perens
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North Woods
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