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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1937
Page
51
A noisy Paramount theater listing shows the film After The Thin Man starting Friday. The writeup mentions character names and scenes, noting cast features and photography staff details in a brief show listing.
Warner Baxter and June Lang star in White Hunter with Baxter and Lang paired for action scenes. The report notes advertising and cast interactions, mentioning scenes and plotting as the film moves toward its release.
A local movie page previews Cedar Rapids openings. William Powell and Myrna Loy in After the Thin Man play four days at Para mount. Warner Baxter and June Lang star in White Hunter at Paramount for three days. Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore appear in The Gold Diggers of 1937 at Town theater. Louis Armstrong and his swing band perform at Paramount through Monday. James Cagney in Great Guy arrives Friday at Iowa venue. One in a Million debuts Saturday at New State with Sonja Henie and Don Ameche. Barbara Stanwyck and Joe McCrea lead Banjo on My Knee at New State.
A life insurance salesman is hired by Victor Moore to head his stage enterprises after Moore funds his rise. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell play chorus girls fighting for jobs as romance blooms with Moore. The backup feature continues the light comedy sharp dialogue of the era.
The Rialto opens a two film bill led by Fugitive in the Sky with Jean Mur and Warren Hull. Gordon Oliver Carlyle Moore Jr Howard Phillips Winifred Shaw and Mary Treen also star. Buck Jones leads the western Boss Rider of Gun Creek with Muriel Evans and a cast including Harvey Clark Tom Chatterton Joseph Stackard Lee Phelps and Earnest Hillard. A comedy and Cats complete the show.
The feature at New State theater through Friday presents Banjo On My Knee a musical drawing on Mississippi river life with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Walter Brennan delivers humor as Newt Holley alongside Helen Westley Buddy Ebsen and others in a vivid stage adaptation with music and one man band gimmick. On the bill Laughing at Trouble adds romance comedy and mystery led by Jane Darwell and a strong supporting cast. The planet Mercury has no atmosphere noted in a closing science snippet.
The film Anthony Adverse starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland screens today and through Tuesday at the Palace. It features a sweeping three continent drama with a large cast including Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Steffi Dunn Donald Woods Ralph Morgan and Louis Hayward. A companion feature Here Comes Trouble stars Paul Kelly and Arline Judge.
Sonja Henie stars in One In A Million with Don Ameche Adolphe Menjou and Jean Hersholt in a Twentieth Century Fox musical romance The program also features Crack Up a tense drama starring Peter Lorre and Brian Donlevy at the same bill The cast includes Ned Sparks Borrah Minevitch and Dix ie Dunbar among others showing a sparkling ice spectacle and light comedy entertainment
Jack Mills twelve member orchestra, fresh from a Pacific coast and far west engagement, will perform at Danceland Thursday evening from 9 to 1. Manager Frank Brookhiser announces. Kay Austin featured vocalist joins the act. Tonight Bob Snyder appears at Danceland.
Helen Broderick trains for a dancing role in the film We the Jury. She began as a chorus dancer and has limited screen dancing, with Vic Moore as her partner in Swing Time and again in the forthcoming project despite Moore's reluctance to rehearse.
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