Iowa Books Outstanding Fall Features
The Iowa theater opens the 1938-39 season with Joe E Brown in The Gladiator on Aug 19 and Edward G Robinson in I Am The Law on Aug 26. August to October showcases include Carefree with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, plus Room Service, Breaking the Ice, Gunga Din, You Can t Take It With You, Mad Miss Manton, Valley Of The Giants, The Affairs Of Annabelle, and Disney technicolor cartoons as added attractions.
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Iowa Theater
Joe E. Brown
Edward G. Robinson
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Clarence Kalb
Franklin Pangborn
Irving Bern
Goon
Marx Brothers
Valley of the Giants
Jack Oakie
Lucille Ball
Ruth Donnelly
Annabelle
Man From Music Mountain Heads Program At Rialto
Rialto presents one of the season s best shows through Tuesday led by Gene Autry s jubilee feature Man From Music Mountain with Smiley Burnette and Carol Hughes Polly Jenkins and her radio playboys. Joe E Brown stars in Wide Open Faces as Maitre D Squirt. Lyda Roberts Allison Skipworth Jane Wyman appear along with The Fighting Devil Dogs serial third chapter and a Charley McCarthy short.
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Rialto
Gene Autry
Music Mountain
Smiley Burnette
Carol Hughes
Polly Jenkins
Joe E. Brown
Joe
Lyda Roberts
Allison Skipworth
Janet Wyman
Charley McCarthy
Rabbit Foot Luck Boosts Baxter Career
Warner Baxter credits fate and an improbable rabbit incident for his rise in film. A rabbit shattered a windshield during a crash that blinded Raoul Walsh, who later joined the industry and directed. Walsh's success led to racing connections trained by his brother George, once a movie headliner.
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Warner Baxter
Raoul Walsh
Walsh
Baxter
George
The Texans at Paramount Tells Story Of Old South
The Texans shows at the Paramount as a New Year romance set in reconstruction. Joan Bennett plays a Dixie belle and Randolph Scott a returning soldier guiding a conciliatory course. May Robson Walter Brennan Robert Barrat Robert Cummings Harvey Stephens headline the supporting cast.
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Paramount Theater
Joan Bennett
Randolph Scott
May Robson
Walter Brennan
Robert Barratt
Robert Cummings
Harvey Stephens
Walley Beau Returns to Thornwood for Week of Swing
Walley Beau and his orchestra tour the country and arrive in Thornwood for a week of engagements starting today. The band brings distinctive rhythms and vocal specialties that delight swing enthusiasts.
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Walley Beau
Thornwood
Beau
Cowboy From Brooklyn Sweeps State With Hilarious Cast
Dick Powell Pat O'Brien and Priscilla Lane head Warner Brothers star lineup in Cowboy From Brooklyn at New State theater. The musical comedy delivers nonstop laughs with sentimental moments and musical numbers like Ride Tender Foot Ride and I'll Dream Tonight. Johnnie Scat Davis Dick Foran Ann Sheridan Reagan and Emma Dunn also appear. The companion feature Prison Break exposes parole system with Barton MacLane and Glenda Farrell.
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Dick Powell
Pat O’brien
Priscilla Lane
Warner Brothers
Brooklyn
New State Theater
Johnnie “Scat” Davis
Dick Foran
Ann Sheridan
Ronald Reagan
Emma Dunn
Barton MacLane
Glenda Farrell
Submarine D-1 Navy Story Opens at Strand
The Strand presents Submarine D-1 starring Pat O Brien Wayne Morris and George Brent a dramatic look at navy men testing and fighting with submarines as a season highlight. As second feature International Settlement stars Do.
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Strand Theater
Pat O'Brien
Wayne Morris
Orge Brent
Doris Weston
Harmonika Bohemian musical comedy comes to Strand
Lores Del Rio and George Sanders co star in Lander Spy now showing at the Strand. Harmonika a Bohemian language musical comedy features popular Czech screen stars and plays two evenings Tuesday and Wednesday with a Wednesday matinee.
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Lores del Rio
George Sanders
Lander
Hollywood Sees Burst of Film Activity After Slump
After eight months of panic and penury talkietown stabilizes with terms like colossal and terrific. Metro budgets for a $112000 sequence in To Hot to Handle and Warners spends $200000 on a San Francisco quake for The Sisters. An RKO crew films Gunga Din two months on location with 500 carpenters at work. David Selznick and Walter Wanger plan Titanic and Leviathan. Hollywood anticipates about seventy flickers rolling from cameras soon.
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Warners
San Francisco
RKO
David Selznick
Walter Wanger
Hollywood
Hollywood Sellers Learn Lessons From Wylie Portfolio
Hollywood still seeks screenable stories as writers were fired during the panic. An agent sold eighteen I. A. R. Wylie tales for 25000, then 9000 split, leading to Vivacious Lady and three other Wylie works in production. Individual stories now fetch 10000 to 25000 each and sell quickly.
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NEA
I. A. R. Wylie
Miss Wylie
RKO
Pandro Berman
Argentina Declares Independence in 1816
The text notes Argentina proclaimed independence from Spain on July 9 1816 and then endured a civil war lasting thirty six years shaping early national politics.
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Argentina
Spain
Alexander's Ragtime Band at Paramount Friday
Paramount screens Alexander's Ragtime Band this Friday starring Tyrone Power Alice Faye and Don Ameche with Ethel Merman Jack Haley Jean Hersholt and others. The film traces love and history through Irving Berlin songs including two new numbers Now It Can Be Told and My Walking Stick.
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Alexander
New State Theater
Joan Fontaine
Richard DIX
Lowe Theater
Irving Berlin
Darryl F. Zanuck
Paramount Theater
Tyrone Power
Alice Faye
Don Ameche
Ethel Merman
Jack Haley
Jean Hersholt
Helen Westley
John Carradine
Paul Hurst
Ruth Terry
Douglas Fowley
Chick Chandler
Tyrone
Alice
Berlin
Land dispute over 9752 acres stems from 1802 Spain grants
More than 100 claimants pursue title to 9,752 acres along the Mississippi River north of St. Louis in a long running case based on Spanish grants dating to 1802.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Spain
Joe Penner in Iowa Feature Plays Trick Rider Role
Joe Penner stars in I'm From The City arriving in Iowa theaters Tuesday. He appears as a trick equestrian in a circus terrified of horses, hypnotically performing feats under a ringmaster played by Richard Lane. The program shifts to a wild west ranch with rival riders and a love triangle involving Lorraine Kruger. The companion film Come On Leathernecks features Richard Cromwell with Marsha Hunt.
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Joe Penner
City
Iowa Theater
Penner
Richard Lane
Lane
Lorraine Kruger
Paul Guilfoyle
Leathernecks
U. S. Marine Corps
Richard Cromwell
Marsha Hunt
Leon Ames
Edward Brophy
Robert Warwick
Jane Withers Stars In Checkers At Palace Theater
Jane Withers shines in Checkers a comedy drama of gallant hearts playing today through Wednesday at the Palace with Stuart Erwin and Una Merkel as the leads. Marvin Stephens also appears in Borrowing Trouble, while the second feature Tip-Off Girls with Lloyd Nolan and Mary Carlisle features a six man role and highway racketeering plot.
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Palace Theater
Jane Withers
Joe E Brown Stars in The Gladiator at Iowa Theater
Joe E Brown appears as a scientifically created super man in The Gladiator with June Travis Robert Kent and Man Mountain Dean. The film features a spectacular wrestling scene and a supporting cast including Dickie Moore Lucien Littlefield Ethel Wales and Donald Douglas. A co feature Desperate Adventure stars Marian Marsh and Ramon Navarro.
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Joe E. Brown
June Travis
Robert Kent
Man Mountain Dean
Iowa Theater
Philip Wylie
Brown
Webster College
Sliss Travis
Dean
Dickie Moore
Lucien Littlefield
Ethel Wales
Donald Douglas
Marian Marsh
Ramon Navarro
Little Tough Guy Opens at State Theater This Thursday
The Dead End Kids film Little Tough Guy premieres Thursday at the New State theater with Helen Parris Robert Wilcox Jackie Searle and Marjorie Main in support. The drama follows a family torn by tragedy as a father is jailed and a boy joins a street gang amid hardship and resentment.
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New State Theater
Helen Parris
Robert Wilcox
Jackie Searle
Marjorie Main
Billy Halep
Mr. Chump
Johnnie “Scat” Davis
Lola Lane
Penny Singleton
Donald Briggs
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