Cummings Moves to Halt Telephone Wires for Horse Betting
Attorney General Cummings eyes a hands off policy on using telephone lines for horse race betting. DOJ anti trust experts reportedly find no federal law blocking leasing wires for betting. AT and T officials argue no statute forbids such use. FCC may tighten rules pending formal report.
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Washington
Cummings
Anti-Trust Division
Department of Justice
Paul A. Walker
Federal Communications Commission
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Department
Walker
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Department of Advice
Walter S. Gifford
Commission
Walter Huston In Story Of Rhodes At State Saturday
Walter Huston stars in a Rhodes portrait envisioned as a grand biopic marking the famed diamond markets explorer and civilization builder. Also on screen, Gloria Stuart Brian Donlevy Isabel Jewell and Stepin Fetchit headline 36 Hours To Kill with a covert ace pursuing public enemies and romance.
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Walter Huston
Rhodes
South Africa
Gloria Stuart
Brian Donlevy
Isabel Jewell
Stepin Fetchit
Two Film Features In Iowa Agenda At Tuesday Showing
A program includes Give Her A Ring featuring a pairing mix up at a meeting place and a predestined romance with the boss. Legong Dance of the Virgins is a technicolor romance filmed with a native cast and music set in the south seas.
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Ist
Karen
South Sea Islands
Al Sky and Orchestra Return to Cedar Park Ballroom
One of Iowa’s favored dance orchestras returns tonight at Cedar Park ballroom with Al Sky and the boys offering new specialties and swing hits. Singer Ann Gaye from the Radisson Inn Minneapolis appears. Freddie Mauck and his WOL orchestra play Tuesday with free admission for women.
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Iowa
Cedar Park
al Sky
Ann Gaye
Raddison Inn
Minneapolis
Freddie Mauck
WOL
the Park
Miniature Elephants Hit American Stage in Congo Tale
The Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey show brings tiny Nuba Buli and Loka elephants from Javoon Congo to Cedar Rapids on Aug 12. Howard Bary spent three years persuading natives to emigrate and three weeks guiding the herd by foot and boat to New York for Madison Square Garden.
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Belgian Congo
Africa
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey
Cedar Rapids
America
Congo
Ttiny
Javoon
Howard Bary
Bary
Alexandria
New York
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Madison Square Garden
Fire on the Circle V Ranch Sparks a Night of Rescue
Lee Hollister returns to the Circle ranch as signs of neglect loom. A wild fire threatens the property, and Virginia, Stanley, and the Circle V volunteers race to save the homestead. Lee suspects foul play while Joey hints at a hidden motive as wind shifts and the blaze is finally contained.
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Lee
Joey
Stanley
Lee Hollister
Virginia
Circle Ranch
Matt Blair
Matt
The
Archers
New York
Milton Bradish
Circle V
Curly
Darrell
Years of Broadway Promise Finally Near Production
A theater column notes many plays announced years ago still awaiting Broadway production. The writer cites eight long-promised works including Decameron Nights The White Horse Inn and Wild Violets with London origins dating 1922 to 1932. He highlights efforts by Lanson Raphaelson and others as shows inch toward the professional stage.
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New York
London
White Horse Inn
England
Center Theater
Lanson Raphaelson
Harlem
Man’ Sg
Mr. Raphaelson
Magnificent Heel
Booke
Broadway
Playboy
Robert Turney
Theater Guild
Mr. Chappell
Alan Scott
Chatterton
Tovarich
Paris
America
Ward Morehouse
Quis
Dodie Smith
Keithe Winter
Ringmaster
Frantisek Langer
Bruno Frank
William Anthony McGuire
J. B. Priestley
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Gilbert W. Gabriel
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Mr. Lembaugh
Cedar Rapids Gas CO
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