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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 23, 1934

Page

7

Beloved Comes to Paramount Sunday and Monday

Beloved described as the musical romance of a century plays at the Paramount for Sunday and Monday only. John Boles stars with Gloria Stuart in a story spanning nearly 100 years, featuring Boles singing several songs and praised as serious entertainment.

John Boles Gloria Stuart Paramount Theater Greta Garbo Christina John Gilbert Lewis Stone Ian Keith Paramount

Grundy Center Grants Diesel Plant Contract to Fairbanks Morse

Grundy Center council awarded a contract for a 110 h p diesel engine and generator for the town water plant to Fairbanks Morse for 14 770 dollars. The package includes pumps and a 12 000 gallon tank. A pump house costing about 10 000 dollars was completed. Revenue from the plant is expected to cover the cost.

Grundy Center Fairbanks Morse Company

It Happened One Night Opens at Iowa Theater Friday

Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable star in It Happened One Night, opening a four day run at the Iowa theater Friday. The Columbia hit follows a heiress running away to New York, meeting Gable on a night bus, and forming a romantic adventure from rainstorms to hitchhiking and a planned wedding. Supporting players include Walter Connolly Jameson Thomas and Roscoe Karns under director Frank Capra.

Claudette Colbert Clark Gable Hollywood Iowa Columbia Claudette Miami New York Gable Long

Majestic Week End Features Men Must Fight And College Humor

The Majestic offers a weekend lineup led by Men Must Fight starring Diana Wynyard Phillips Holmes Lewis Stone and Ruth Selwyn. Also showing College Humor with Bing Crosby Burns Allen Arlen Carlisle Oakie and the Ox Road Co-eds plus Our Gang Bedtime Worries and news reels. Friday night stage acts include ten numbers by Cervenka and band with a Mickey Mouse matinee Saturday at 1 pm and a 12 15 am midnight stage show featuring Lionel Barrymore Elissa Landi and Lawrence Olivier in The Yellow Ticket. Doors open 11 30 pm.

Diana Wynyard Phillips Holmes Lewis Stone Ruth Selwyn Majestic Theater Bing Crosby George Burns Gracie Allen Richard Arlen Mary Carlisle Jack Oakie Ox Road Our Gang Mickey Mouse and Paramount News Cervenka

Two Thrillers Open At Olympic Thursday

At the Olympic this Thursday two thrillers debut. Cover the Waterfront stars Claudette Colbert Ben Lyon and Ernest Torrence with San Pedro docks backdrops and smuggling Chinese plots. Hell-Fire Austin features Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan plus a fast cross‑country ride. A news reel and cartoon finish the program.

Claudette Colbert Ben Lyon Ernest Torrence Max Miller San Pedro Calif Ken Maynard Austin Ken Tarzan

Theaters Preview Gull Galore and Deals in 1933 Film Scene

The page lists star vehicles at Paramount Majestic Palace Rialto and Olympio cinemas including Greta Garbo in Men, Barbara Stanwyck in Shopworn and Loretta Young in Life Begins, Bette Davis in Bureau of Missing Persons, Claudette Colbert in I Cover the Waterfront, and Ken Maynard in Hell Fire Austin. It notes 1933 motor trucks produced 363000 units, up 48 percent from 1932.

Iowa Morton Downey Edward Robinson Lee Tracy Majestic Barbara Stanwyck Nancy Carroll Palace Paris Adolphe Menjou Benita Hume Loretta Young Rialto Bureau of Missing Persons Bette Davis Olympio Claudette Colbert Ben Lyon Ken Maynard Austin

Nancy Page Shares Two-Tone Bridge Table Linen Idea

Nancy Page explains a two tone bridge set made from theatrical gauze. She uses two colors and different thicknesses to create contrasting sides, with fringe edges and embroidery stitches. The set launders easily and proved popular, with several ending up as gifts. Send three cents and a stamped self addressed envelope for full instructions.

Nancy Nancy Page Coprright

Cedar Rapids Leaders Change Posts and New Home Opened

Cedar Rapids welcomes J. M. Brown as division engineer after returning from Chicago. George I. Medhurst moves to Estherville division office. A new institution, St. Marys Cottage, opens as a girls boarding house run by Sisters of Mercy in a former hospital. Reverend L J Rohrbaugh arrives from Pennsylvania to organize a Reformed church congregation.

Cedar Rapids Chicago J. M. Brown George I. Medhurst Estherville St. Mary’s Cottage Sisters of Mercy L. J. Rohrbaugh Pennsylvania Home Missionary Board of the Reformed Church

Williams sentenced to Eldora school after arrest near Grundy Center

Russell Williams of Reinbeck was sentenced by Judge Hasner to the Eldora industrial school for breaking and entering a farm house near Grundy Center. He was paroled to Henry Frei Jr. of Reinbeck. An older brother implicated in the case remains at liberty under a $500 bond awaiting a hearing.

Grundy Center Russell Williams Reinbeck Eldora Industrial School Hasner Henry Frei, Jr Mberty

Local candidates and obituaries noted in brief

Mrs. William Chamberlain receives announcement seeking school director candidacy. Mrs. Frank K. Ward dies after pneumonia. Rev J E Stauffacher fills in at Zion United Evangelical church during his son’s meetings. Local rifle team defeats Crane Tech High School Chicago on Feb 22 1904. Mr. O P Tyler travels to Houston Texas. Frank K Parmeter formerly of...

Padden Bepneree Majestic Theater William Chamberlain O. P. Tyler Houston Tex Frank K. Ward Pneumona J. E. Stauffacher Center Point Zion United Evangelical Church L. Janda M. Wolrab C. Schlotterbeck T. Blacklin F. Heeney Crane Technical Hight School of Chicago

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