Thanks for Everything leads New State in 1939 musical season
Comedy with music at New State theater starts Thursday and runs through Christmas week starring Jack Haley as Mister Average Man with Adolphe Menjou Jack Oakie and Aileen Whelan in supporting roles. The Last Express crime club mystery also pictured with Kent Taylor Dorothea Kent and others. Faith Carlton directs Fourteen Men of Rhythm at Danceland Thursday night with low dance prices and a waltz contest slated for Sunday winners.
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New State Theater
Darryl F. Zanuck
Twentieth Century-Fox
New York
Jack Haley
Adolphe Menjou
Jack Oakie
Aileen Whelan
Tony Martin
Binnie Barnes
Henry Smith
New Universal
Kent Taylor
Dorothea Kent
Don Brodie
Paul Hurst
J. Farrell MacDonald
Faith Carlton
Danceland
Frank Brookhiser
Miss Carlton
America
Canada
Benny Goodman
Norman Sanvall
Barrel Ubben
George Sir Venka
George W. Ward
Tenth Street SE
Clyde Bailey
Second Avenue SE
Reformatory at Rialto Stars Holt in Warden Role
The Rialto presents Reformatory starring Jack Holt as the warden in a tale about reforming troubled boys. Frankie Darro Abby Jordan and Charlotte Wynters lead a supporting cast with Ward Bond Grant Mitchell and Tommy Bump. Prairie Justice and a Wild Bill Hickok serial chapter follow along with a Disney cartoon musical reel.
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Wild Bill Hickok
Hardy Family Out West at Paramount
The Hardy family visits Arizona in Out West With The Hardys. A ranch dispute involves an old sweetheart and her husband with Ralph Morgan and Nana Bryant in principal roles. Gordon Jones leads the outfit as 11 year old Virginia Weidler’s character works alongside Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy. Lewis Stone portrays the judge in a tangle surrounding the ranch.
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Hardy
Paramount
Hardys
Arizona
Ralph Morgan
Nana Bryant
Gordon Jones
Virginia Weidler
Mickey Rooney
Andy Hardy
Lewis Stone
Colorful Musical Feature At Palace
Scintillating music and dancing with high comedy illuminate The Big Broadcast of 1938 at Palace theater led by W. C. Fields. Cast includes Martha Raye Dorothy Lamour Shirley Ross Ben Blue Bob Hope and Shep Fields. The Divorce of Lady X stars Merle Oberon and Lurence Olivier in a witty mistaken identity romance for the second feature.
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Palace Theater
W. C. Fields
Martha Raye
Dorothy Lamour
Shirley Ross
Ben Blue
Bob Hope
Shep Fields
Lady X
Merle Oberon
Lurenee Olivier
Powell-Loy Pictures
Paramount and New State Showings Highlight Week
Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney star in Out West With The Hardys at the Paramount with Cecelia Parker. The Strange Case of Dr Meade with Jack Holt and Beverly Roberts arrives Wednesday. Submarine Patrol stars Richard Green and Nancy Kelly at the New State, paired with Down On The Farm. A Christmas Carol at the Paramount features Terry Kilburn Tiny Tim and Reginald Owen Scrooge, arriving Tuesday. Thanks for Everything opens Thursday at the New State with a six star musical. The Little Tough Guys In Society with Betty Blythe plays at the Iown theater now.
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Lewis Stone
Mickey Rooney
Cecelia Parker
the Hardys
Paramount
Jack Holt
Beverly Roberts
Dr. Meade
New State Theater
Richard Green
Nancy Kelly
Jones Family
Charles Dickens
The Strange Case of Doctor Meade at Iowa Theatre
Jack Holt stars in a suspenseful drama about a hard working surgeon who seeks a quiet vacation in a mountain village and faces ignorance and prejudice that threaten his effort to change a troubling local medical condition. Noah Beery Jr and Beverly Roberts co star. Cipher Bureau features counterespionage work.
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Doctor Meade
Jack Holt
Iowa
Holt
Noah Beery, Jr
Beverly Roberts
Cipher Bureau
Counterespionage Service
Leon Ames
Joan Woodbury
Charlotte Wynters
Donald Dillaway
Grubbs Emerges as Popular Pla Mor Vocalist
Babe Grubbs, renowned vocalist and bass virtuoso with Dick Hendricks orchestra, enters his eighth week at Pla Mor. An Indianapolis native previously with Vincent Lopez, he captivates Hendricks fans with comic bits and the bass solo Lumbo. Meredith D. Grubbs enjoys stamp collecting and bass horn solos at local appearances.
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Babe” Grubbs
Dick Hendricks
Pla-Mor
Vincent Lopez
Indianapolis
Babe
Hendricks
Meredith D. Grubbs
Mills Orchestra Coming To Iowa
The Mills orchestra with Jay Mills brings a stage revue to the Iowa theater for three days starting Saturday December 31. The group recently appeared at Edgewater Beach Hotel Chicago Waldorf Astoria New York and other leading venues. Mills presents a sweet swing program and features two charming girls from the southland as part of the act.
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Jay Mills
CBS Orchestra
Iowa Theater
Mills
Edgewater Beach
Chicago
Waldorf Astoria
New York City
Southland
Storm Over Bengal headlining screen feature with revue acts
A film program features Storm Over Bengal starring Rochelle Hudson and Richard Cromwell and a variety revue with several headline acts. A New Year's Eve midnight show starts at 11 30 p.m. with all seats reserved.
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Bengal
Rochelle Hudson
Richard Cromwell
A Christmas Carol Opens at Paramount With Starcast
MGM presents A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen as Scrooge Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit and Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim. The program also features Spring Madness starring Maureen O Sullivan and Lew Ayres with Ruth Hussey Burgess Meredith Ann Morriss and Joyce Compton in supporting roles.
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Charles Dickens
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount
Reginald Owen
Scrooge
Gene Lockhart
Bob Cratchet
Terry Kilburn
Tiny Tim
Maureen O'Sullivan
Lew Aryes
Ruth Hussey
Burgess Meredith
Ann Morriss
Joyce Compton
Vinegar-flavored Miners Lettuce Noted by Early Californians
Early California Indians reportedly placed miners lettuce near red ant nests so ants crawling over the leaves left formic acid. This natural deposition gave the plant a vinegar flavor noted by observers.
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California
Setter Pup Chases Car Thieves Across County Woods
A trio steals a car in North Carolina and flees into Virginia where a rural Prince Edward school encounter brings a busload of children and a brave setter puppy into the tale. The bus crashes, two vehicles wreck, and the thieves vanish into dense woods as the pup gives chase until help arrives.
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North Carolina
Virginia
Prince Edward County
Towa Books Presents Two Features in Iowa Theater Program
Opening Sunday December 25 the Iowa theater program showcases There’s That Woman Again starring Virginia Bruce and Melvyn Douglas and Gangster’s Boy starring Jackie Cooper. The first follows a private detective and his wife in a jewel robbery plot with a comic crime angle while the second tracks a school athlete facing his gangster father with cast including Robert Warwick Lucy Gilman and Louise Lorimer.
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Iowa
Virginia Bruce
Melvyn Douglas
Jackie Cooper
Margaret Lindsay
Stanley Ridges
Gordon Oliver
Paul Harvey
Robert Warwick
Lucy Gilman
Louise Lorimer
Submarine Patrol at State Theater Delights Audiences
Twentieth Century Fox wartime romance Submarine Patrol with Richard Greene and Nancy Kelly shows through Wednesday at the New State theater. The cast also features Slim Summerville George Bancroft Preston Foster John Carradine Henry Armetta and Warren Hymer. The companion feature Down on the Farm with the Jones family is praised as the theater’s best yet.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
America
New State Theater
Richard Greene
Nancy Kelly
Slim Summerville
George Bancroft
Preston Foster
John Carradine
Henry Armetta
Warren Hymer
Jones
Submarine Patrol
Piper Greene
Jean Valerie Henry Armetta
Warren Mymer
Douglas Fawley
20Th Century-Fox Picture
Hilly i
Ec Aliee Thane Y
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