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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1939
Page
7
The Paramount presents two features with brisk melodrama and comedy. Jane Withers and Leo Carrillo star in The Arizona Wildcat with a corrupt sheriff and bandits, while Peter Lorre in Mr. Moto's Last Warning pursues a villain bent on blowing up French ships.
An American Legion Auxiliary officer assaulted a German American Bund gathering in New York on Monday night, cited as an abuse of freedom of speech. Mrs T K Rinaker, national vice president from Carlinville Indiana, described the event to the Women's National Defense Council.
President Roosevelt urged all groups to unite in protecting the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. In a message to Roger W. Straus, co chair of the National Conference of Christians, he called for broad unity to defend constitutional rights.
A radio program during Brotherhood Week featured a message read aloud addressing Jewish and non Jewish audiences, emphasizing unity and mutual respect across faiths. The broadcast underscored cooperative outreach and interfaith understanding.
Stella Dallas will be shown at the Rialto on Wednesday and Thursday starring Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles with a distinguished cast.
The second feature Come On Leathernecks stars Richard Cromwell and Marsha Hunt as an action comedy drama. The serial Dick Tracy Returns airs in the fourteenth chapter with Floyd Gibbons True to Life and Cats and the Fiddle.
Review notes Bonita Granville as a 16 year old who becomes a sharp newspaper reporter solving a murder while classmates win a journalism contest. The plot blends fast pacing with sensational sleuthing and a police dragnet evasion caper on a Federal Manhunt companion feature.
A light word puzzle invites readers to count letters in their name and adjust by rules to obtain a key number. Start at the rectangle’s upper left, check cells left to right, then read letters under the checked figures for a daily message.
A plot to use a secret airstrip is nearly completed when private detective Robert Livingston enters the case by chance. June Travis appears as the leading woman in this early entertainment item.
An expose on dogs and rain behavior by Albert Payson Terhune notes that while most dogs seek shelter in wet weather, some exceptional line like Sunnybank Thane and descendants stay outdoors and may suffer severe illness or death from rain. The discussion covers winter rain risks and care.
The page lists current film showings across theaters including Nancy Drew Reporter with Bonita Granville and John Litel at AT THE THEATERS. Paramount features Jane Withers in The Arizona Wildcat and Mr Moto's Last Warning with Peter Lorre. State presents Zaza and The Girl Downstairs. Palace shows Three Comrades and Safety in Numbers. Rialto screens Stella Dallas and Come On Leathernecks.
Hollywood gossip notes Sigrid Game, once hailed after signing with Sam Goldwyn, faced a slow start as her career stalled awaiting the Marco Polo project. Gary Cooper led the film, leaving her in an extended apprenticeship and delaying a breakthrough.
A blitz of entertainment notes surveys Sigrid’s stalled career at Goldwyn, Sigrid’s clash with Hedy Lamarr, Virginia Bruce and others, plus Francis Lederer’s post peace movement plan and John Carradine home wing hobbies.
Agricultural economists forecast that farm families will have higher spending power in 1939 than in 1938, signaling a brighter year for rural households.
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