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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1939
Page
38
This week's Paramount program presents Gulliver's Travels in a feature length Technicolor cartoon. The tale follows Gulliver’s shipwreck and Lilliputian captivity, with a romance and international intrigue, plus songs and a comedy short.
The Town theater presents Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Gulliver's Travels in technicolor at Paramount with Sneak Snitch and Snoop. State shows The Housekeeper's Daughter starring Joan Bennett and John Hubbard. Paramount features Charlie McCarthy Detective with Edgar Bergen and Mortimer Snerd. Invisible Stripes with William Holden, Jane Bryan, and George Raft arrives at Town theater next Saturday.
At a midnight screening the mystery comedy Charlie Mc Carthy Detective features Charlie Mc Carthy and Edgar Bergen in leading roles. Mortimer Snerd also appears as part of the ensemble as the quirky foil.
Four year old Conrad Schulte crawled into a Vincennes chimney and was trapped until his father pulled the bricks away. The rescue was aided by the dog’s bark. The chimney was demolished to free him.
The Iowa theater opens with George Raft in Invisible Stripes a convict life drama based on Lewis E Lawes book featuring Jane Bryan and William Holden with Humphrey Bogart Paul Kelly Lee Patrick and Henry ONeill in support. Also showing Mexican Spitfire a farce with Lupe Velez Leon Errol and Donald Woods. The new March of Time Crisis in the Pacific portrays navy strategy around Guam. Vic tor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton leads a spectacle as Notre Dame recreations and 3500 atmosphere players fill the scenes.
Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy opens at the Rialto in South Of The Border a western musical featuring Smiley Burnette Lupita Tovar as senorita The second feature Tail Spin Tommy stars in Danger Flight with John Trent Marjorie Reynolds Milburn Stone The serial Kit Carson in chapter two plus news and Disney cartoon.
The Strand opens Garden Of The Moon starring Pat O'Brien Margaret Lindsay and John Payne with a feud plot involving a hotel manager and a band leader Joe Venuti leads the swing band. Also on the program Tarzan Finds A Son with Weissmuller and O Sullivan and a Czech film Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy featuring Flynn De Havilland Russell Knowles in Four's A Crowd.
Hal Roach's The Housekeeper's Daughter, adapted from Donald Henderson Clarke, leads the State Theatre New Year's Eve midnight program with Joan Bennett and Adolphe Menjou starring. The mystery follows amateur and professional sleuths as they pursue a Broadway murder in a fashionable town house. Menjou’s newsman solves the case after fending off underworld gangs. Supporting cast includes John Hubbard, William Gargan, George E. Stone, and Peggy Wood. The film opens for a regular engagement Thursday alongside Everything Happens at Night starring Sonja Henie, Ray Milland.
Robert Cummings also appears on the same program in Call Aessen ger starring Billy Halop and Huntz Hall, adding to the feature lineup with their performances.
Errol Flynn stars in Dodge City a technicolor western at the Palace theater today through Wednesday. Olivia de Havilland and Bruce Cabot also star with Ann Sheridan Alan Hale and Frank McHugh in supporting roles. The second feature Panama Lady stars Lucille Ball and Alan Lane.
County Clerk Dorothy Gardner issued an unusual day's licenses including a high school graduate couple, a 70 year old man and wife, and two sisters each with their prospective grooms. Each sister acted as the other’s witness.
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