Treasure Island to Headline Cedar Rapids Stage Week
This week offers Treasure Island on screen with Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper touring Cedar Rapids theaters for four days starting Friday. The season opens with World’s Fair Scandals a fast moving revue led by Ralph Cook and Tex Guinan alumni, promising the Living Fountain of Gorgeous Girls as finale. Several other venues plan noteworthy shows, detailed in separate stories.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Wallace Beery
Jackie Cooper
Lewis Stone
Otto Kruger
Charles “Chic* Sale
Nigel Bruce
Paramount
Stevenson
Iowa
Ralph Cook
Texas Guinan's
Stage Shows and Films At Local Theaters This Week
In Ce dar Rapids the first season stage show Stage Show in the Worlds Fair Scandals features the original Texas Guinan gang company of fifty performing at Town theater Tuesday through Thursday with Hat, Coat and Glove on screen starring Ricardo Cortez. Loretta Young leads Born to Be Bad at State theater now showing. Wall ace Beery Jackie Cooper Lionel Barrymore Chic Sale and Lewis Stone star in Treasure Island at Paramount starting next Friday.
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Cedar Rapids
Ricardo Cortez
Loretta Young
Comedy And Drama On Double Bill For Olympic's Patrons
Beginning Sunday for four days the Olympic offers a double bill with all star casts. The Meanest Gal in Town features Zazu Pitts El Brendel Pert Kelton and Skeets Gallagher in lead and supporting roles. Whirlpool stars Jack Holt with Donald Cook Lila Lee and Allen Jenkins in a dramatic tale of a man seeking oblivion to give his wife and child a chance at a new life. A comedy and a Silly Symphony wind up the program.
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Zazu Pitts
el Brendel
Pert Kelton
Skeets
Gallagher
Jack Holt
Donald Cook
Lila Lee
Allen Jenkins
Warren Williams Stars in The Dragon Murder Case in Iowa
Warren Williams appears as Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case, coming to the Iowa theater next Friday. The mystery unfolds at a multimillionaire scientist estate during a weekend party with a missing fiancé and a drained pool bearing clawlike tracks, prompting Philo Vance, Sergeant Heath, and District Attorney Markham to investigate.
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S. S. van Dine
Philo Vance
van Dine
Warren William
Iowa
George Meeker
Heath
Markham
Warren Williams
Czechoslovak Lodge Picnics and Conventions Around State
Local C S A lodges plan picnics and initiation events at East Moline and nearby sites. Delegations include Kubovec, Prokop Vesky lodges, and Theodore B. Hlubacek. Leaders head to Chicago for the Czechoslovak Societies of America convention lasting a week with a 500 member initiation and Sokol pavilion events. Z C B J and Jan Hus groups hold gatherings. Kriz on vacation in Racine and Chicago. next Ian Hus meeting set for Sept 27 with rehearsals ongoing.
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East Moline
Kubovec
Prokop Vesky Lodge
Iowa City
Swisher
Cc. S. A
Theodore B. Hlubacek
Prokop Velky
Charlotte Masaryk
Milo F. Mitralsky
Chicago
Czechoslovak Societies of America
Sokol Slavsky Hall
Century of Progress
Czechoslovak Pavilion
Fidlovačka Play Set For Tuesday And Friday Evenings
The Fidlovacka presentation is scheduled for Tuesday and Friday at 7 p.m. Ustredni Matice Skolska Czech school board to hold its regular meeting on September 6. The night school board plans a later meeting, and Prokop Velky lodge C.8 A will meet on September 2 at 9 a.m. for regular business.
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Fidlovacka
Ustredni Matice Skolska
Czech School Board
Prokop Velky Lodge
Palace Presents Smarty and All Of Me For 3 Days
The Palace screens Smarty a breezy comedy drama with Joan Blondell Warren William and a strong supporting cast through Tuesday. Also shown is All Of Me a dramatic romance starring Frederic March Miriam Hopkins George Raft and Helen Mack with four stars headlining. Short subjects accompany the program.
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Smarty
Palace
Joan Blondell
Warren William
Frank McHugh
Edward Everett Horton
Claire Dodd
Park Avenue
Hell's Kitchen
Fredric March
Miriam Hopkins
George Raft
Helen Mack
Queen Bees Given Air Mail Privileges
Washington AP reports the post office department extended air mail privileges to queen bees. An edict by Harllee Branch states queen bees are mailable in the domestic air mail service, with about fifteen worker bees accompanying the queen to feed and care for her.
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Washington
United States Air Mail
Post Office Department
Harllee Branch
Louis Panico and His Orchestra at Swisher Pavilion
Louis Panico and his orchestra will play Thursday August 23 at the Swisher Paramount pavilion. The engagement is arranged by the Music Corporation of America. Panico, once with Isham Jones, leads his own band for five years and is renowned across Chicago networks and major dance venues in the Midwest.
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Louis Panico
Paramount
Born to Be Bad at State Theatre Warns Against Ambulance Chasers
The film stars Loretta Young and Cary Grant in a state preview about lawyers doctors and insurance adjusters who scheme to claim a fatal wreck against a wealthy man for a boy who is only slightly injured. The young mother and Jackie Kelk drive the plot toward a tearful climax with a noble sacrifice.
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Loretta Young
Cary Grant
Jackie Kelk
New York
Fay Bainter
Madge Kennedy
Lowell Sherman
Ralph Graves
One More River at Paramount Tuesday Three Day Run
England novelist John Galsworthy's last Forsyte Saga work One More River is adapted for the screen and runs at Paramount theater for three days starring Diana Wynyard with Colin Clive Reginald Denny and others. The plot centers on a high society marriage, false suspicions, and a dramatic shipboard friendship amid suspenseful twists. Also showing Popeye Cartoon Sook Abye Baby with Frank Britton and band in a music filled program.
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England
John Galsworthy
Paramount Theater
Diana Wynyard
Colin Clive
Reginald Denny
Patrick Campbell
Lionel Atwill
Galsworthy
London
Ceylon
Frank Lawton
Popeye the Sailor Man
Frank
Milt Britton
Paramount
Sound News
Treasure Island to Shine at Paramount Next Friday
After over two years of work filming is complete and the program will run four days at the Paramount theater starting next Friday. Star cast includes Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper Lewis Stone Chic Sale Otto Kruger and Nigel Bruce delivering a faithful screen adaptation of the Stevenson classic with strong dialogue and realism.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Paramount Theater
Wallace Beery
Jackie Cooper
Lewis Stone
Charles
Chic") Sale
Otto Kruger
Nigel Bruce
Stevenson
World’s Fair Scandals at Iowa Opens New Season
The World’s Fair Scandals revue begins Tuesday at the Iowa for a three day run with a forty piece cast including a fifteen girl chorus. Acts include the three St Johns brothers acrobatics and Lucille Dorman as star singer. The Living Fountain of Gorgeous Girls is a standout scene and Hat Coat and Glove is the screen feature with Ricardo Cortes, Barbara Robbins and John Beal.
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Iowa Theater
Whiting
Iowa
Texas Guinan
Ralph Cook
Floyd Christy
Christy
St. Johns Brothers
Hollywood
Lucille Dorman
Judith
Mae West
Virginia Heavey
Cecil Blair
Dorothy King and Boys
Ricardo Cortes
Barbara Robbins
John Beal
Ricardo Cortez
Treasure Island film cast and appeal noted
Long John Silver is portrayed as the exact personification of the book character with Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins, promising a Stevenson atmosphere of youth. The Treasure Island picture is described as widely appealing to both old and young and packing theaters nationwide.
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Long John Silver
Jackie Cooper
Jim Hawkins
Stevenson
Monday Forecast Promises Sudden Shifts in Life and Work
A Sunday style astrological forecast predicts abrupt changes in employment and business, with new environments, strange associates, and fresh contacts. Those with birthdays enter a nearly new life with prosperous openings and potential high status through remarkable affiliations and new contracts.
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Benjamin Harrison
Beloved musical heads Rialto double bill this week
Beloved, a sweeping musical about a composer’s life spanning a hundred years, stars John Boles and Gloria Stuart with Morgan Farley and others. It anchors a Rialto program opening today for three days, followed by Ken Maynard in Smoking Guns and a comedy plus novelties.
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RIAL
John Boles
Gloria Stuart
Ken Maynard
Rialto
Morgan Farley
Ruth Hal
Dorothy Peterson
Richard Carle
Lucile Gleason
Mae Bush
Jimmy Butler
Mickey Rooney
Vienna
America
Gloria Shea
Walter Miller
Frank Hagney
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