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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1939

Page

20

Gulliver's Travels in Technicolor at Paramount

The Paramount presents Gulliver's Travels in Technicolor with Gabby Sneak and Snoop as Lilliputian foes and Gulliver at center stage. New Year's Eve features Charlie McCarthy Detective at the Paramount with Bergen and Snerd, plus other film listings at the Iowa and State theaters.

Gulliver Paramount Theater Jonathan Swift Lilliputians Little Kingdom Gabby Sneak Snoop Little Lilliput Bombo Grantland Rice Sportlight Touchdown Review Paramount News Paramount Snitch Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Mortimer Snerd Charlie Bergen

Iowa Theater Screens Raft Convict Drama With Notables

The Iowa theater opens Saturday with George Raft Jane Bryan and William Holden in Invisible Stripes a convicts after prison life drama from Lewis E Lawes. Supporting cast includes Humphrey Bogart Paul Kelly Lee Patrick Henry ONeill.

William Holden Jane Bryan George Raft Iowa Lewis E. Lawes Iowa Theater Humphrey Bogart Paul Kelly Lee Patrick Henry O'Neill

Hal Roach Comedy At State For New Year's Eve Show

The State theater will screen Hal Roach's The Housekeeper's Daughter for New Year's Eve midnight. Joan Bennett and Adolphe Menjou lead a cast about amateur and professional sleuths solving a Broadway murder. Supporting players include John Hubbard Peggy Wood William Gargan and George E. Stone. The film opens Thursday. The current feature at the State is Everything Happens at Night with Sonja Henie Ray Milland.

Lower Keft Hal Roach Joan Bennett John Hubbard State Theater Donald Henderson Clarke Adolphe Menjou News Hound William Gargan George E. Stone Peggy Wood Sonja Henie Ray Milland

House chimney wrecked to save imprisoned boy

In Vincennes Indiana a four year old boy named Conrad Schulte crawled into the family chimney and became stuck. His father tore down the chimney brick by brick to free him while the family dog barked for help. No injuries are reported.

Vincennes, Ind Schulte Vincennes Conrad Schulte Conrad

Gene Autry Opens at Rialto In South Of The Border

Gene Autry stars in South Of The Border at the Rialto with Smiley Burnette and Lupita Tovar in new western musical. The second feature Tail Spin Tommy presents a clash between airmen and racketeers over a commercial line. Kit Carson serial continues in chapter two with a comedy, newsreel, and Disney cartoon.

Gene Autry Rialto Smiley Burnette Lupita Tovar Tailspin Tommy John Trent Marjorie Reynolds Milburn Stone Kit Carson

Pat O'Brien In Film Today At The Strand

The Strand opens Garden Of The Moon with Pat O'Brien Margaret Lindsay and John Payne amid a hotel feud plot with Joe Venuti’s swing band. Also on program Tarzan Finds A Son with Weissmuller and O Sullivan plus a junior Tarzan. Tuesday and Wednesday Czech film Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy screening. Four's A Crowd stars Flynn de Havilland Russell Knowles as a comedy feature.

Pat O’brien Margaret Lindsay John Payne Strand Theater Today O'Brien Payne Joe Venuti Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O’sul

Call A Messenger Highlights Billy Halop Huntz Hall

Robert Cummings stars in a program with Call A Messenger featuring Billy Halop and Huntz Hall as part of the same broadcast lineup.

Robert Cummings Call A Messenger Billy Halop Huntz Hall

Errol Flynn Stars In Dodge City At Palace Today

Errol Flynn headlines the technicolor adventure Dodge City at the Palace theater through Wednesday. Olivia de Havilland co stars with Bruce Cabot and Ann Sheridan in a tale set in the rough cattle town of southwestern Kansas as the Santa Fe line helps forge a western shipping hub. The second feature Panama Lady stars Lucille Ball and Alan Lane.

Western Frontier Dodge City Lucille Ball Alan Lane

Cupid Divides His Day Between Young And Old

In Fort Wayne Indiana County Clerk Dorothy Gardner issued three sets of marriage licenses on the same day. A school graduate couple wed, a pair aged 70 married, and two sisters each acted as the other’s witness to their respective marriage.

Fort Wayne, Ind Dorothy Gardner

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