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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1940
Page
20
This week Cedar Rapids theaters feature Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlett as leads. The road show at State theater starts Thursday morning. Screenings run 10 a.m. 2:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. on weekdays, with reserved seats for evening and Sunday matinees. Weekday matinees are not reserved.
Iowa theater listings preview Swiss Family Robinson arriving Thursday at the Iowa with cast members Tim Holt Thomas Mitchell Edna Best and Terry Kilburn. The program also features The Saint's Double Trouble starring George Sanders Bela Lugosi Helene Whitney and two other features including Main Street Lawyer with Anita Louise Edward Ellis and The Fatal Hour with Boris Karloff.
Paramount presents Little Old New York featuring Fred MacMurray and Alice Faye with Richard Greene Brenda Joyce Andy Devine Henry Stephenson Fritz Feld. The drama centers on Robert Fulton and his steamboat the Clermont with Faye as the waterfront belle and MacMurray as the shipbuilder admirer. Shorts on the program.
The Rialto presents Coast Guard through Tuesday with Randolph Scott Frances Dee Ralph Bellamy and Walter Connolly in a romance tale spanning tropics to north. A Roy Rogers Saga of Death Valley western follows with Kit Carson ninth chapter plus a Donald Duck cartoon and news reel.
Ella Logan stars in George White's Scandals coming to the Iown theater for one night on February 28. The show features Ann Miller, Ben Blue, Collette Lyons, Willie and Eugene Howard, and a 100 plus cast in 30 scenes with songs like Good Night My Beautiful and Waikiki and a standout Mexicanga dance number.
A Strand theater double bill today and Monday features Jack Benny in Man About Town with Rochester in the cast. Pardon Our Nerve stars Michael Whalen and Lynn Bari as the co feature. A Day at the Zoo cartoon is also shown. Tuesday and Wednesday Czech film Pod Jednou Strechou stars Theodor Pistek with selected shorts.
Spencer Tracy shines as Stanley in the Palace’s showing of Stanley and Livingstone. The adventurous tale follows a famed African expedition with Tracy delivering a masterful performance. Nancy Kelly adds a romantic note as Livingstone’s ally.
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