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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1935
Page
4
Review lauds the Paramount film The Mighty Barnum with Gene Fowler screenplay and Wallace Beery as Barnum plus The March of Time news reel. highlights Ro cherlle Hudson as Nancy and Adolphe Menjou as Barnum, with multiple upcoming Iowa stage and screen acts and dates.
The Weaver Brothers and Elvira with their Homefolks vaudeville act head to the Iowa theater for four days starting Monday. They reject radio and film offers, preferring personal audience contact after sixteen years as top vaudeville headliners. Night Alarm with Judith Allen and Bruce Cabot accompanies the program on the same bill.
Olsen and Johnson bring their Cavalcade of Fun to the Iowa Theater for a four day engagement starting Monday February 18. The pair known from Take a Chance headline a sixty minute riot of girls nonsense and monkey business with Cliff Crane Earl Carrolls Vanities and Reggi Mona among other Broadway stars appearing in the deluxe program. Otilie George Eddie and Arline Kinley Shirlie Rust George Moore Kathryn McKenna Sid ney Gibson and June Johnson also perform with Marion Nixon and Neil Hamilton presenting Once to Every Bachelor as the screen feature.
Campus comedy opens with Joe Penner and a cast including Anita Louise and Tom Brown. The double feature pairs College Rhythm with Bachelor of Arts, praised as an honest campus life story with humor and mature themes, featuring early sound era songs and campus antics.
Jo and Jean the Arizona Cowgirls appear with the Barn Dance Frolic cast at the Memorial Coliseum on February 13 and 14. Jean, Miss Arizona, leads with guitar and western songs alongside Lem and Martha and other acts in a one night tryout of a radio show stage production. A matinee is set for Thursday at 2 30 PM with evening shows at 8 PM both nights sponsored by Hanford post No 5 American Legion.
In Marseilles, France the city where King Alexander of Jugoslavia met his death is described as a major French port. The account highlights Marseilles as a key harbor amid the historic tragedy and its political implications.
Mae West headlines a Palace double feature with Belle of the Nineties and White Lies. West stars as a Sud Louis burlesque queen in New Orleans, supported by Roger Pryor John Mack Brown and John Millan. Duke Ellington provides musical background. White Lies centers on a sensational newspaper publisher with Walter Connolly Fay WrayVictor Jory Irene Hervey and Leslie Fenton in supporting roles.
One of the era’s largest casts appears in Footlight Parade at the Rialto starting today through Tuesday. Stars James Cagney Joan Blondell Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell lead a big lineup with 250 chorus girls. Also showing The Lawless Frontier with John Wayne and Sheilla Terry in a western romance.
The Mills Brothers band joins the Cats and the Fiddle in a packed romance and adventure filled program, delivering a lively musical showcase with popular tunes and bright vocal harmonies.
Pla-Mor hosts a varied Barn Dance bill featuring the Four Pepper Uppers Uncle Elmer Happy Hank McCauley Flower Sisters Dick and Al The Grasshoppers Daddy Wait Booth Family Peggy Ann and Scottie and Al The Pla-Mor Revelers provide open house nights free to couples Monday through Wednesday Thursday blends a Valentine dance with Discovery Night contestants hail from Waterloo Manchester Iowa City Belle Plaine Anamosa and the home city Friday and Saturday bring Night Club shows with imported acts dancing nightly to 1 am Johnny Reeves hosts the evening lineup.
Olympic theater opens a four day run with two features. Such Women Are Dangerous stars Warner Baxter Rosemary Ames Rochelle Hudson Mona Barrie Herbert Mundin and Henrietta Crosman. The Charming Deceiver stars Constance Cummings Frank Lawton, a witty romantic musical. Short subjects complete the program.
Paramount presents a three feature program Tuesday to Sunday including Biography Of A Bachelor Girl with Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery, Ive Been Around with Chester Morris, and The March of Time series entry. Wallace Beery stars in The Mighty Barnum and Enter Madame with Elissa Landi and Cary Grant shown as part of the current lineup.
The Iowa bill features Harry Hite a 7 foot 10 inch showman aged 22 and shoe size 22 with a dancing patter partner Tommy Lowe. Virginia Bacon and company perform a five girl two man tap number to Dance of the Hours while Harris and company present Dark Clouds of Joy. Ventriloquist Ray Conlin uses Hite as his dummy. Palmina aerial act rotates on one hand. Little Men at the screen stars Ralph Morgan and Erin O'Brien Moore with twelve Hollywood juveniles. The review notes the juvenile offerings may outpace film fare and mocks future Elsie Dinsmore and Alger adaptions.
Paramount Theater schedules a three day program led by the stage revue Continental opening Friday with Wings in the Dark starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant as the film feature. The stage show features 70 performers including Leon Miller and the Soochow Sing Song Girls with forty eight dancers and multiple dance troupes. Wings in the Dark offers aviation drama and blind flying innovations ahead of the times.
Pauline Baugh of Vinton obtained a divorce from Charles Edmund in district court on Friday. Judge Carl B. Stiger granted the decree citing cruel and inhuman treatment. The couple wed at Rock Island on March 29, 1932, and separated prior to the filing.
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