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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1940
Page
4
The State theater schedules a Mountain Film Comedy and a series of features headlined by Lana Turner and Jota Sieber. The program also includes Clarence Mulfords Hrefedlen Gold with Willam Bord, Russell Hayden, and Ruth Rogers, plus a Co-feature and local talent.
Burgess Meredith Betty Field and Lon Chaney Jr star in the Hal Roach film version of John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men showing today through Tuesday at the Rislo Theater. The program also includes Roy Rogers in Ranger and the Lady and the eighth chapter of the serial Red Raider.
The town showcases Walt Disney's Festival with classics Snow White Ferdinand the Bull The Practical Pig The Ugly Duckling and Donald's Lucky Day at the Town. Lana Turner and John Shelton star in We Who Are Young at the State while Bette Davis and Charles Boyer lead All This and Heaven Too opening Friday at the Iowa. Errol Flynn Brenda Marshall appear in The Sea Hawk at the Paramount and Ann Sothern returns in Gold Rush Muss in at the Paramount. Una Merkel Uncle Ezra and Bob Burns feature in Comin Round the Mountain at the State starting Thursday.
Errol Flynn stars as Geoffrey Thorpe in The Sea Hawk at Paramount Theater a sixteenth century swashbuckling tale of pirate exploits against Briain enemies Queen Elizabeth is portrayed by Flora Robson and the film features grand sea battles Elizabethan court splendor and period costumes also listed is Gold Rush Maet in Arizona desert with Brenda Marshall and Ann Sothern in a separate act plus other names and acts teased with brief notes
Clark Gable and Jean Crasford star in the mystery romance Strange Cargo at the Palace theater. Supporting roles include Jon Hunter Peter Lorre and Paulick Tie. The plot follows a lover entangled with a crime ring as misfits chase a treasure amid an exotic setting.
Kelsie Wright, a young woman in a struggling family, plans to improve her prospects by taking a business school course after considering loans from her married brother Bolton. Her family relies on modest earnings, government pension, and rent to cover living costs as she contemplates office work as a respectable path. Pace Tolman proposes secretly while family tensions press for financial help.
Kelsie, Bolton, and Betty navigate marriage, work, and financial plans as Kelsie seeks training for a manicuring career while family finances, a foreclosed farm, and child expectations create strain. Betty, a stylish teacher, urges stability amid ambitions, revealing deeper rifts.
Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers headline a comedy at the Iowa theater this Friday. A Greenwich Village artist and a store clerk spark a sweepstakes scheme that leads to amusing complications with Spring Byington and Jack Carson in supporting roles. The bill also features Scatterbrain with Judy Canova and a Disney Festival of Hits including Snow White.
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