Dancing Lady at Paramount Opens Friday with Star Cast
The four day Paramount engagement opens Friday featuring Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone May Robson Winnie Lightner Robert Benchley and Ted Healy. A critic hails the film as spectacle and splendor with a dramatic story lavish musical numbers and three hundred beauties enhancing lavish settings. It promises song hits that could become sensations overnight.
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Joan Crawford
Clark Gable
Franchot Tone
May Robson
Winnie Lightner
Robert Benchley
Ted Healy
Paramount Theater
Miss Crawford
Gable
Charine
Broadway
Dancing Stars Highlight Crawford Astaire pair in program
The review lauds Miss Crawford with Fred Astaire in memorable dance routines while Franchot Tone plays the obstacle in her life. An outstanding short titled Easy Aces offers entertaining bridge comedy as part of the program.
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Franchot
Tone
Miss Crawford
Fred Astaire
Morley road gravelling improves access to Center chapel
One of Jones county's improvements just completed is the gravelling of the road one mile east and one and one half miles north from Morley to the Center chapel and cemetery. The project began this fall after grading of the road. Funeral corteges had often found access difficult during previous conditions.
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Morley
Jones County
Center Chapel
Little Women Held Over At Iowa Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids patrons urged by manager A H Talbot to see Katharine Hepburn in Little Women as the film extends four more days through Monday. The town raves about the Cedar Rapids run drawing crowds by foot, car, and streetcar.
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Katharine Hepburn
Iowa
A. H. Talbot
Cedar Rapids
Laurie
Douglas Montgomery
Joe
Duke Ellington
Theaters Reel With Hepburn and Howard Stars
Iowa shows Katharine Hepburn in Little Women at the theatre along with Fox Paramount titles. Berkeley Square stars Leslie Howard and Heather Angel while Majestic features Kay Francis and Nils Asther and Reserved for Ladies with Howard and Hume.
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Iowa
Katharine Hepburn
Paramount
Maurice Chevalier
State
Berkeley Square
Leslie Howard
Heather Angel
Majestic
Kay Francis
Nils Asther
Benita Hume
Palace
Sally Ellers
James Dunn
Grand Slam Comedy At Rialto With Loretta Young
Lovers of bridge and others will see Grand Slam a comedy drama at the Rialto Thursday starring Loretta Young and Paul Lukas. The play is a domestic comedy built around a new bridge system created by a man who knows little of the game. The cast includes Frank McHugh Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Walter Byron Roscoe Karns and 22 others with the serial Phantom of the Air in its sixth chapter and a program of Moonlight Fantasy and Cats and the Fiddle.
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Loretta Young
Paul Lukas
Frank McHugh
Glenda Farrell
Helen Vinson
Walter Byron
Roscoe Karns
Tom Tyler
Chevalier Romps In Comedy Romance At Paramount
Maurice Chevalier stars in The Way to Love a light Parisian romance on the Paramount bill with Ann Dvorak as the gypsy girl and Edward Everett Horton delivering sparkling comedy. The program features songs by Chevalier a wine shop tour sequence with Horton and a playful necktie clipping gag. The dog Casanova earns a shout and Thelma Todd appears in Back to Nature with a partner.
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Maurice Chevalier
Paramount
Chevalier
Ann Dvorak
Edward Everett Horton
Horton
Casanova
Thelma Todd
Mind and Morality in a Scientific View
Author notes science guides moral choices and societal debts over individual rights. It cites studies by Book and Meadows showing gender differences in arithmetic and memory, urging evaluation of specific abilities rather than general superiority. It references Mind in the Making discussing memory and attention.
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William F. Book
John L. Meadows
Indiana University
James Harvey Robinson
Habits booklet offered by Dr Wisgam for habit formation
Dr Albert Wisgam advertises a small 28 page booklet on habits written with ideas from William James. Send 16 cents or stamps and a self addressed stamped return envelope with request to HABITS care of the newspaper.
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Albert Edward Wisgam
Harvard
William James
Becklet
Albert Wiegam
Memory and forgetting in child development discussion
The passage quotes Bergson on memory and forgetfulness, comparing memory to selecting useful input. It suggests the brain’s filtering is essential, likening uncontrolled input to a roller coaster blur, and asks whether parental influence has a favorable effect on a child’s future.
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Bergson
The Favorite Child and Parental Favor
A discussion on how overindulgence by parents can create a spoilt favored child. Andre Maurois in The Family Circle illustrates a grown child who fears people due to parental favoritism, causing friction with siblings.
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Andre Maurois
Two Dramatic Films on Olympic Program
Olympic theater opens with Tim McCoy's Man of Action a fast moving western tale with romance appealing to women. The second feature Igloo portrays an Eskimo hunter's perilous courting and dramatic life story alongside news, comedy, and cartoon.
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Tim McCoy
Columbia
Olympic Theater
McCoy
Will Rogers Says Beverages Improve After Changes
Beverly Hills columnist Will Rogers notes in 1933 that drinks improved as people relaxed despite anonymity. He compares the crowd to riders preferring a rough horse to a tame one, predicting patience needed for sociable drinking without scrutiny.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Wayland Dublin and No 81 highways get civil works upgrades
Civil Works employees spread crushed rock on seven miles of Wayland road and will move to three miles of the Dublin road and six miles of the old No 81 highway. County supervisors plan resurfacing on Wellman, Richmond and Ainsworth roads using rock from two quarries Grace Hill and Stewart farm south of Washington.
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Washington
Holdups on Iowa Farms Linked to Same Gang
Sheriff Don McComas of Johnson County ties a Sunday night Krehlik farm robbery near Iowa City to a string of recent Iowa holdups. He suspects four unmasked bandits, who forced safes, cut telephone wires, and dismantled cars, are identical to a Clinton county Holdorf case.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Don McComas
Johnson County
Joe Krehlik
Here
Iowa
McComas
Krehliks
Henry Holdorf
Toronto
Clinton County
Mrs. Holdorf
Trowel Lodge Elects New Worshipful Master in La Porte City
C. V. Barnhart was elected worshipful master of Trowel Lodge 216 A F and A M at a Tuesday night meeting in the Masonic hall. Assisting officers named Harold Johnson senior warden John Bolte junior warden M L Haven secretary F E Lehman treasurer A A Van Valkenburg trustee for three years.
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LA Porte City
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