Summerville-Pitts Comedy Heads Rialto Double Bill
Slim Summerville and Zazu Pitts star in Out All Night at the Rialto for three days starting today. The honeymoon pair chase laughs at Niagara Falls with Shirley Grey and others. The bill also features Hoot Gibson in The Fighting Parsons and Marceline Day with a Broadway Brevity Northern Exposure news segment.
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Slim Summerville
Zazu Pitts
Rialto
Rialito
America
Honeymoon Center
Niagara Falls
Shirley Grey
Alexander Carr
Laura Hope Crews
Rollowey
George Hackathorne
Hoot Gibson
Gibson
Marceline Day
Robert Frazer
Stanley Blystone
Skeeter Bill Robbins
Charles King
Jules Cowles
Ethel Wales
Giraffe Neck Women Among Ringling Circus New Features
A Burmese giraffe neck group led by Mu Prau will appear with Ringling and Barnum and Bailey in Rockford area shows. The act joins a Delhi Durbar replica and 1,000 performers with elephants camels horses and other attractions. The 50th Ringling anniversary program also highlights past acts and Lia Graf's headline seating moment.
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Burma
Ringling Circus
Felix Adler
Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circus
Rockford Road
Eighth Avenue
Kipling
Mandalay
Padaung
Red Karen Hills
Upper
Mu Prau
America
Delhi Durbar
Queen Victoria
Ringling Boys
Baraboo
Wis
Lia Graf
Washington
Royal Padaing
Killian’'S
Big dance at pavil ions with music by Joe Fisher
8 30 P M big dance at pavilions with music by Joe Fisher. Gate adults 35c children over 12 lic includes all entertainment but dance. Dance tickets 15c to all.
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Joe Fisher
Night Of Terror at the Iowa opens Tuesday
The Iowa theater debuts the murder mystery Night Of Terror with eight suspects amid murders at Professor Rinehart’s home. Bela Lugosi leads as a sinister figure along with Sally Blane and Wallace Ford in supporting roles. A colored Silly Symphony Ole King Cole and other short features accompany the program.
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Iowa
Rinehart
Bela Lugosi
Dracula
Sally Blane
Wallace Ford
George Meeker
Tully Marshall
Matt McHugh
Ole King Cole
Marie Dressler Stars in Tugboat Annie at Paramount
Marie Dressler portrays Tugboat Annie with Wallace Berry as Captain Terry. Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan support as Annie's son and his sweetheart. The film includes Grantland Rice Sportlight, a Tom Howard comedy, and a newsreel.
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Marie Dressler
Annie
Paramount
Wallace Berry
Cap’n Terry
Miss Dressler
Soa
Terry
Robert Young
Maureen O'Sullivan
Tom Howard
Mainz edict mandates Hail Hitler greeting for Aryans
In Mainz Germany the city council orders all pure Aryan residents to greet with Hail Hitler instead of Guten Tag. Refusal to comply is treated as dissent to the new regime.
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Mainz
Germany
Hitler
State Theater Marks Sixteenth Anniversary With Special Program
The Cedar Rapids State theater formerly the Strand celebrates its sixteenth anniversary on August 31 built by A J Diebold and Mike Ford. The program includes Dont Bet On Love with Lew Ayres and Ginger Rogers a Hollywood revue 20000 Cheers For the Chain Gang a sound cartoon The Oil Can Mystery and a 1940s Screen Souvenirs reel.
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Golden Brain
State Theater
Strand
Cedar Rapids
A. J. Diebold
Mike Ford
Strand Players Company
Hearts of World
Hearts of the World
George Cervenka
Everett Foster
Iowa
al Jolson
Thomas A. Edison
Grand ‘Hotel
Paramount
Diebold
Palace Theater
Lew Ayres
Ginger Rogers
Hollywood Review
Ford V-8 Display On Coe Campus This Week
An unusual Ford V-8 exhibit will be on the Coe college campus at First Avenue and Twelfth Street NE Cedar Rapids this week. The lawn will host all 1933 Ford V-8 models, including a cutaway chassis showing the engine and parts. Visitors may ride in and drive any model they choose.
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First Avenue
Twelfth Street
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Morning Glory Charms Iowa in Greater Show Season Opener
The Iowa theater opens its broader season with Morning Glory starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Sept 1. Adolphe Menjou Mary Duncan support. story follows a well born country girl seeking Broadway fame. The production features noted dialogue, sharp photography, and strong cast including C Aubrey Smith Don Alvarado Richard Carle.
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Cedar Rapids
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey
Burma
Ma Pray
Felix Adler
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Katharine Hepburn
Kay Francis
Paramount
Mary Stevens
M. D
Iowa
Adolphe Menjou
Mary Duncan
Fairbanks
Menjou
Broadway
Miss Hepburn
C. Aubrey Smith
Don Alvarado
Richard Carle
Once In a Lifetime Headlines Olympic Bill
A double feature opens at the Olympic with the comedy Once In a Lifetime featuring Sidney Fox Jack Oakie Aline MacMahon Russell Hopton Zasu Pitts Louise Fazenda and Onslow Stevens The bill also presents Anita Page in Jungle Bride in her first starring screen role as a pretty blonde actress noted for prior successes.
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Sidney Fox
Jack Oakie
Aline MacMahon
Russell Hopton
Zasu Pitts
Louise Fazenda
Onslow Stevens
Anita Page
Olympic Theater
Danceland to Reopen September with Spanish Tavern Themed Hall
Danceland will reopen September 3 under owner Frank Brookhiser after redecorating with a Spanish beer tavern addition. The hall will host dances on Tuesday Thursday Saturday and Sunday with Don Roth's orchestra on opening night and a Labor Day special. Brookhiser plans to keep hiring top acts. Carleton Coon Jr. and Hal Kemp are booked for later in September. The new tavern runs along the north wall seating 164, features grills awnings yellow lights and updated heating and cooling. Sandwiches and beer will be served and the venue emphasizes a cool, intimate atmosphere.
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Danceland
Frank Brookhiser
Brookhiser
Carleton Coon, Jr
Hal Kemp
Don Roth
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Paramount Theater
Marlene Dietrich
Ann Harding
Wiliam Powell
Helen Hayes
Robert Montgomery
Marx Brothers
Tarzan
Maurice Chevalier
Lyle
Herbie Kay
Oakwood Wellman
Pitts
Una Merkel
Zast
Alex Park
Wheatland
Oxford Junction
The
Marceline
Marie
Wallace
Howdy
House
Oeta
Third Street
Jack Oakiec
Leila Hyams
Paul Lukas
Iowa Theatre
Mickey Mouse
Coe
Morning Glory
Olympic
Bill
Springville
Gov
Kraschel
Clyde Grant
His
Sveueel
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