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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1939
Page
5
A reader questions cooking skills and marriage in laws with a smug Georgia 16 year old column voice. Miss Manners reassures with cookbooks and playful titles, then answers a puzzled correspondent about a boy she met at a dance who never called.
Rialto screens feature Ken Murray a giddy swing show with Johnny Downs Kathryn Kene Eddie Quillan Ted Weems and his orchestra in lavish sets. Roy Rogers stars in Billy The Kid Returns with Smiley Burnette in a comedy role. Flaming Frontier shown as 18th chapter with Cats and the Fiddle.
Proposals from contractors to furnish all materials, labor, and equipment for erection of a new chimney at the Training School for Girls in Mitchelville. Plans and specs available with $13.00 deposit, returnable after bids. Bids due by 9:00 am September 7, 1999. Henry J. Liebbe, Architect. By order of Board of Control. Des Moines. August 22.
A Hollywood chatter column recounts Rochelle Hudson family notes denying elopement troubles and confirms planned marriage to Hal Thompson amid Beverly Hills residence changes. Laura Hope Crews praised in The Star Maker, with Bing Crosby highlighted. Capra trimming Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Tiomkin composing. Debutante Cobina Wright Jr tests at MGM for Dr Kildare. Mickey Rooney to return after Labor Day for rest cure. many industry tidbits and namings.
The Times of Tony Pastor will feature veterans like Nat Goodwin Mae Irwin Maggie Cline Ned Harrigan Francis Wilson Weber and Fields and Lilian Russell with songs such as Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay After the Ball and The Belle of Avenue A. Edward G Robinson will play Pastor with Jeanne Cagney joining Paramount’s roster. Rennie Renfro provides many dogs for the movies including Daisy the dog and Zero the poodle with sixty canines trained for film use.
Grapevine notes sweep through Hollywood with Edna Best reconsidering divorce from Herbert Marshall and Nat Wolff linked to the tale. Michael Bartlett returns for San Francisco Opera, Isabel Jewell’s circle at Cafe Lamaze, Jackie Coogan with Buddy Westmore, Rita Johnson and George Sidney a growing pair, Joan Bennett to wear natural hair in Green Hell. Marlene Dietrich delays, Kay Francis and Gene Markey ill, Olympe Bradna with Don Ettlinger, Gwynn Pickford’s marriage memory, Nancy Carroll with James Adams at Sardis, Arthur Johnson linked to Reginald Hall Johnson, Ilona Massey praised in Balaika, Nelson Eddy praised by a sneak reviewer. See you tomorrow.
The Angels Wash Their Faces opens in Iowa Friday with the Dead End kids reimagined as law abiding youths led by Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan. The gang faces a tenement fire arson and a murder frame up as the youngsters and Reagan work to reveal the truth while a romance unfolds. The feature is paired with Clouds Over Europe starring Laurence Olivier and a Scotland Yard espionage plot.
The menus in these columns show a family of five two adults and three young children can eat well on about $12 weekly. Each day’s menus aim for a balanced diet with adequate calories protein minerals and vitamins to support growth and energy.
A brief instruction lists 2 teaspoons of tea for hot or iced tea for adults. It notes water quantity as a parameter, but presents no additional measurements or steps.
The page lists daily meal allowances and kitchen basics such as creamed chipped beef on toast, onions, bread, tomato salad, cantaloupe, coffee, and butter with a daily cost around 1.65. It promotes modern cakes including chocolate chiffon and orange sponge, inviting readers to request a Special Cakes leaflet and contact Meta Given through Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Thursday menus list breakfast with sliced peaches soft cooked eggs toast and jelly. Luncheon features cabbage slaw raw carrot slaw lettuce and nut bread with butter. Banana dessert uses lemon sauce with sugar cornstarch and lemon components.
Community Nutrition Service offers low cost recipes and guidance for marketing, food budgeting, and diets. Call 5515 for assistance and practical nutrition tips.
Theaters listing highlights Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in When Tomorrow Comes at Iowa venues with Bruce Cabot and Ralph Byrd in Mickey the Kid. Paramount presents Stanley and Livingstone featuring Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly and Richard Greene. State shows On Borrowed Time with Lionel Barrymore Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Beulah Bondi.
A slate of film offerings headlines the night showings with Preston Foster and Lynn Bari in News is Made at Night at Palace, Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in Love Affair, Hopalong Cassidy in Sunset Trail, Ken Murray and John ny Downs in Swing Sister Swing at Rialto, and Roy Rogers with Smiley Burnette in Billy the Kid Returns.
In the District Court of Linn County Iowa the will of Joseph L. Pospishtlate is to be probated. A hearing is set for September 2, 1939 at 9 o clock a. m. to prove and admit the Last Will and Testament. Attorneys Yessler Liddle and Fahey represent the case with Edwin W Lundquist as Clerk.
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