Little Women at Iowa sets box office record at Town Theatre
Katharine Hepburn stars as Jo in Radio Pictures adaptation of Louisa May Alcott novel. Jo sisters Amy Meg Beth are played by Joan Bennett Frances Dee Jean Parker. Fritz Baker Laurie Brooke are Paul Lukas Douglas Montgomery John Davis Lodge. Marmee is Spring Byington. Aunt March Edna May Oliver. Mr Laurence Henry Stephenson. Matinee Wednesday offers autographed photo of Hepburn to attendees.
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Katharine Hepburn
Joan Bennett
Amy
Frances Dee
Meg
Jean Parker
Beth
Paul Lukas
Fritz Baker
Douglass Montgomery
Laurie
John Davis Lodge
Brooke
Marmee
Spring Byington
Edna May Oliver
Edna May Oliver Appears As Grumpy Old Aunt March
Henry Stephenson
Mr. Laurence
Theaters Ad List Shows Classic Stars At Iowa Paramount Majestic
A compiled theater page lists Katharine Hepburn in Little Women at Iowa stage and Margaret Sulla van with John Boles at Paramount in Only Yesterday, with Jack Pearl and Jimmy Durante at State and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man at Majestic alongside Secrets of a Secretary. Mae West headlines Palace with She Done Him Wrong while Bill Boyd and Dorothy Wilson appear in Lucky Devils. Rialto features James Cagney in The Mayor of Hell and Cary Grant with Benita Hume in The Gambling Ship. Olympic presents Mae West in Night After Night and Barbara Stanwyck in The Bitter Tea of General Yen. A note adds potatoes cook faster in Boston due to lower atmospheric pressure than Cripple Creek Colorado.
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Iowa
Katharine Hepburn
Paramount
Margaret Sullavan
John Boles
State
Jack Pearl
Jimmy Durante
Majestic
Jean Harlow
Clark Gable
Your Man
Claudette Colbert
Herbert Marshall
Palace
Mae West
Bill Boyd
Dorothy Wilson
Rialto
James Cagney
Hell
Cary Grant
Miss Hoffman Cast as Mrs Moonlight in Community Play
Chicago guest artist Miss Marion Hoffman will star as Mrs Moonlight in the Community Players production at McKinley auditorium on Tuesday and Wednesday. Her screen presence and timing impress the local cast as reservations rise for both performances at the Hobby House.
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Marion Hoffman
Chicago
Community Players
Mrs. Moonlight
McKinley Auditorium
Gwendolyn
Lord Vere de Vere
Players Board of
Paris
Miss Hoffman
Hight
Kitty
Moonlight
10 20 30 years ago in the Gazette highlights
The Gazette recaps Cedar Rapids history with Franklin Junkermann resigning from Churchill Drug. Honor society adds ten at Washington high led by Olunda Castagna and others. Leonard B. Paul promotes Cedar Rapids rat elimination. Mark A. Hall named circuit court judge in Empire Canal Zone. Dr Paul I Hanzlik elected for European clinics at Western Reserve. Richard Golden in King Dodo at Greene's. The Tribune labor paper launches weekly publication. Carl M. Evans edits, with H F Keffer W L Pope and A W Koolaa as directors. Ernest Gibson new organist choirmaster at Grace Episcopal, educated at London College of Music.
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Franklin Junkermann
Churchill Drug Company
Washington High School
Olunda Castagna
Jean Purdue
Phebe Williams
Eunice Dill
A. Wilson
Margaret Deamer
Cleo Hopker
Irene Walrath
Gertrude Powell
Helen Sweesy
Leonard B. Paul
Cedar Rapids
Mercantile Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America
Mark A. Hall
Empire
Canal Zone
Paul I. Hanzlik
Linn County
Coe College
Western Reserve University
Richard Golden
Greene's
Opera House
the Tribune
Carl M. Evans
H. F. Keffer
W. L. Pope
A. W. Koola
Ernest Gibson
Grace Episcopal Church
London College of Music
Baldwin Names Jennie Hale Postmaster
Mrs Jennie Hale is appointed postmaster in Baldwin following the death of her husband George B Hale Acting Postmaster General O Mahoney announced the vacancy was filled by her selection.
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Baldwin
Jennie Hale
O'Mahoney
George B. Hale
Iowa House drafts probe of state banking dept
A joint resolution filed in the Iowa House proposes a five member senate committee and five member house committee to investigate the state banking department and its actions over the past ten years. The plan includes a $20,000 expense appropriation and broad review of bank examinations, asset investments, receiverships, and administration.
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DES Moines
State Banking Department
Iowa House of Representatives
Burgess
Woodbury County
Senate
House
Assembly
Banking Department
State of
Iowa
Alexander Legge Dies Of Heart Attack
Alexander Legge a former assistant manager to president Harold McCormick rose through ranks to become president on June 2 1922 earning a reputed annual salary of 100000 He later chaired the agricultural Marketing Act era farm board in 1929 amid personal tragedy when his wife died in 1924.
Hinsdale estate becomes Katherine Legge memorial rest retreat
The Hinsdale estate, fifteen miles west of Chicago, was converted into the Katherine Legge memorial rest retreat for women workers in the harvester plant. The Legges had no children.
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Hinsdale
Chicago
Katherine Legge
Harvester
Legges
Third Of Dawes Bank RFC Loan Repaid To Date
RFC records show a $90,000,000 loan to Central Republic Bank Chicago matured December 23, 1932 and not renewed. The unpaid balance stands at $62,157,596.85, with possible technical default status and RFC gaining greater collateral control by the non renewal.
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Dawes Bank Rfc
Washington
LLP
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Central Republic Bank and Trust Company of Chicago
RFC
United Press
RFC Dawes loan details and repayment status noted
A Senate subcommittee seeks a complete report on the $90,000,000 Dawes loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The RFC reports $3.54 billion advanced since Feb 2 1932 with $986.8 million repaid. Dawes resigned as RFC president before the loan and returned to chair a bank now in liquidation. collateral valued at about $91.63 million. Interest unpaid totals $1.84 million and $30.13 million has been repaid including interest.
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RPC
Charles G. Dawes
Central Republic Bank and Trust Company
RFC
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Dawes
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