Cat and Canary Tops In Suspense At State Theater
The film The Cat and Canary starring Paulette Goddard Bob Hope John Beal Douglass Montgomery and Gale Sondergaard plays at the State theater with sharp wit and tense moments. The story centers on an heiress the huge estate and a valuable necklace amid mysterious noises and secret passages. The second feature Pride of the Blue Grass stars Gantry the famous blind horse with Edith Fellows.
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Bob Hope
State Theater
Paulette Goddard
John Beal
Douglass Montgomery
Gale Sondergaard
Miss Goddard
Harrison Pupils Will Give Christmas Play
The Harrison intermediate grades present a Christmas story in shadow pictures Friday at 7 30 p m in the Harrison school building. A chorus of 150 children will sing carols and lead roles include Mary Alice Mellen Mary Loggie Joseph Joe Hubbard and others with reader Mary Alice Mellen and various shepherds angels and wise men in tableaux.
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Wise Men
Holy Family
Reader
Mary Alice Mellen
Mary
Mary Loggie
Joseph
Joe Hubbard
Prophet
John Livermore
Ray Wilson
Billy Johnson
Donald Miller
Angels
Marilyn Frasinger
Mary Kenyon
Nina Kennedy
Georgia Popacek
Shepherds
Howard Scott
Floyd Williams
Jack Cook
Richard Mason
Elaine Brousard
Lila Currier
Willis Lamb
Emmett Collister
Robert Benson
Robert Melsha
Lee Bailey
City Tracks Resurfacing Costs $4 992 Spent
Labor materials and equipment used in filling flangeways and resurfacing of street car tracks cost $4 992.41 for August to October. City council approved transferring the amount from car track repair to the public improvements fund. Streets affected include Third Street SE from Third to Fourth Avenues and Fifth to Fourteenth Avenues, Sixteenth Avenue SW from J to K Street, C Street SW from Thirteenth to Sixteenth Avenues, and First Avenue E from Tenth to Twentieth Street.
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Fourth Avenues
Fifth
Fourteenth Avenues
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C Street
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Tenth
Twentieth Street
Hollywood notes on Simone Simon and showbiz buzz
Al Timore column reports Simone Simon’s accent could suit a Northwest Mounted Police role and that Cecil de Mille offered her a screen part after rumors of leaving the show. It notes her recent improvement, potential movie offers, Mary Brian’s rising star aura, and other Hollywood tidbits including Doug Fairbanks funeral reactions and ongoing gossip about Dolores Del Rio and Jean Parker.
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Hellcat
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Cecil de Mille
C. B
Simone
William
New York
Hollywood
Doug Fairbanks
Doug
Leo Carrillo
San Francisco
Leo
Dolores del Rio
Wally Beery
Dolores
Jean Parker
M G M Prepares Technicolor Musical New Orleans
M SPIES notes Ilona Massey bears a striking but unconfirmed resemblance to Marlene Dietrich as MGM rushes into its next project. The singing glamour girl stars in New Orleans with an original score by Herbert Stothart.
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Marlene Dietrich
Miss Massey
Rosalie
Marlene
M-G-M
New Orleans
Herbert Stothart
Olivia de Havilland Lands Lead in Married, Pretty and Poor
Baltimore insiders report Olivia de Havilland has accepted the femme lead in Married, Pretty and Poor after a long casting chase. The star, on the Gone With The Wind tour in Atlanta, received notice the moment she stepped off a TWA plane, with John Garfield co starring and earlier contenders including Wayne Morris Ann Sheridan Jimmy Stewart Jane Bryan.
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Livia DE Havilland
Olivia
Atlanta
TWA
Wayne Morris
Ann Sheridan
Jimmy Stewart
Jane Bryan
John Garfield
Baltimore
Melanie
Blondie Series Cast Adds Rita Hayworth as Siren
On divorce day for Penny Singleton from Dr L Scroggs Singleton a new Blondie film plot introduces Rita Hayworth as Dagwood's former girlfriend. Columbia Pictures increases drama in the Blondie series while promising no heavy marital tangles.
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Penny
Blondie) Singleton
Dr. L. Scroggs Singleton
Dagwood
Rita Hayworth
Blondie
Columbia
Hatter in Hollywood Chooses Diction Coach for Talkie Rise
Te. Mix aims to become a talkie star and engages Mrs. Sephine Dillon, Clark Gabi, for diction and technique coaching as he weighs a possible supporting role in Cavalcade of Western from 20th Century Fox.
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Hatter
Hollywood
Mix
Sephine Dillon
Clark Gabi
Scar Tom
Attendance Record At Cooking School Brings Rush Order For Prizes
Cedar Rapids women flocked to the Bungalow cooking school run by Iowa Electric Light and Power. Attendance reached 9,365 over fourteen weeks with 179 women attaining perfect attendance and 433 qualifying for awards. Miss Louise W. Hathaway proposed waterproof aprons and ordered 500 more.
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Cooking School
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Louise W. Hathaway
Miss Hathaway
Theatres in Iowa and Beyond Offer Big Casts and Classic Films
At the theaters Wayne Morris and Humphrey Bogart star in The Return of Dr X and Jeepers Creepers with the Weaver brothers and Elviry. Greta Garbo leads Ninotchka with Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire. Paulette Goddard and Bob Hope appear in The Cat and the Canary Pride of the Bluegrass with Edith Fellows. Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore star Calling Dr Kildare with Akim Tamiroff in The Magnificent Fraud. Gene Autry sings Western Jamboree Russell Gleason in Fury Below. Slim Summerville leads Up the River with Ann Gillis in Little Orphan Annie.
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Iowa
Wayne Morris
Humphrey Bogart
Rosemary Lane
Dr. X
Jeepers Creepers
the Weaver Brothers
Elviry
Palace
Lew Ayres
Lionel Barrymore
Cites Qualifications For Enumerators On Census Of Business
David J. Murphy of Dubuque announced qualifications required for business and manufacturing census enumerators. The appointment as Second district official was reported Thursday.
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David J. Murphy
Dubuque
Murphy
Census district offices set for Dubuque post office building
Murphy states six teenth decennial census district offices will operate from the Dubuque post office with 18 enumerators handling Davenport Cedar Rapids Clinton Dubuque and nearby communities. Four or five enumerators will cover the Cedar Rapids area.
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Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Census Bureau
Murphy
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