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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1935
Page
14
John Henderson reports the Community Players opened Candlelight with strong casting and staging. The ultra smart farce drew rapid laughs, flawless tech, and two curtain calls, with future shows Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The piece argues snakes never coil around tree limbs, preferring a straight extended body along bark and using only their tails as prehensile. The rest discusses a stage production with Marie and the prince, praising Naomi Battin and the supporting cast for witty, lively performances and ad libbed backstage humor.
In this stage piece Marion Kirk plays the Baroness to a prince who enlists his valet to pose as his master. Josef, played by the prince, woos a mysterious guest believed to be noble blood while Leo Cooper’s Josef and Jane DeLay as Marie the maid navigate flirtation and mischief.
Community Players present Candle Light at 8 15 p m. Paramount features Two For Tonight with Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett. Wisconsin Gladys Sissle Orchestra on stage at Noble Sissle and his group. The Last Outpost with Cary Grant at STATE. Palace shows The Call of the Wild with Clark Gable and Loretta Young. Rialto offers Powder River Wranglers and Bring Em In Dead. Olympic features The Bartered Bride. Newhall hosts surprise 25th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs F A Maeder with silver purse and 100 guests from town and beyond.
An authorial dialogue summarizes research on self made men having fewer descendants due to late marriage and high ambitions. It argues educated women should marry after graduation, while noting broad business experience is beneficial but not a prerequisite. Foreign accents are generally off putting unless spoken by trained professionals. It also notes early airline mail contracts in 1926.
Seven American dancers join Col. W. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for a Dec. 9 Iowa theater performance. Highlights include Rol land Guerard, Shirley Bridge born Anna Adrianova, Sono Osato, Kyra Strakhova, Madeline Parker, Radova Vivian Schmidt, and Platoff Marcel Leplat. All seats are reserved. showtime is 8 30 p.m.
The State theatre opens Wednesday with a double feature first presenting Two Fisted starring Lee Tracy Roscoe Karns Gail Patrick and Kent Taylor as a fast talking manager in a dim witted boxer's world. The Ivory Handled Gun stars Buck Jones Charlotte Wynters and Frank Rice in a tense Western tale.
In the open spaces a relentless figure fights for the ivory-handled pistol that mirrors a rival who hides behind pretenses of respectable society. The struggle centers on possession of one half of a feared pair and tests notions of justice and honor.
Smetana's Bartered Bride opens at the Olympic Theatre with an all star National Theatre Prague cast. Two shows nightly at 7 and 9 with a matinee Wednesday at 2, plus short subjects. Chicago engagements follow this performance.
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