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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1934

Page

3

Convention City Opens in Atlantic City Comedy Riot

Open sets showcase a fast paced evening with Joan Blondell Adolphe Menjou Dick Powell Mary Astor and Guy Kibbee leading First National Pictures comedy about roistering salesmen in Atlantic City followed by Edgar Kennedy short Grin and Bear It plus The Melody Master Audio Review and RKO News.

First National Pictures Hollywood Joan Blondell Adolphe Menjou Dick Powell Mary Astor Guy Kibbee

Theaters Show Big Cast Featuring Blondell and Dietrich

At the theaters in Iowa a mix of stage and screen offerings. Fifty Million Frenchmen plays on stage while Goodbye Again with Joan Blondell and Warren William screens. Paramount presents The Private Life of Henry VIII. Lionel Barrymore and Mary Carlisle star Should Ladies Be Have. Majestic shows The Secret of Madame Blanche with Irene Dunne and Lionel Atwill plus 24 Hours with Kay Francis Miriam Hopkins and Clive Brook. Palace features Song of Songs with Marlene Dietrich and Ginger Rogers in Rafter Romance. Rialto screens East of Fifth Avenue with Wallace Ford Dorothy Tree and Walter Connolly. Olympic offers Humanity with Alexander Kirkland Ralph Morgan and Crossfire with Tom Keene.

Iowa Joan Blondell Warren William Paramount Charles Laughton Henry Vit Lionel Barrymore Mary Carlisle Madame Blanche Irene Dunne Lionel Atwill Kay Francis Miriam Hopkins Clive Brook Palace Marlene Dietrich Ginger Rogers Norman Foster

Tom Keene Featured In Olympic's Double Bill

The Olympic theater opens with Humanity a romance of a young scientist as the first feature. Ralph Morgan Alexander Kirkland Boots Mallory and Irene Ware star in the cast. Crossfire with Tom Keene is the second feature. Keene performs stunts including a motorcycle leap to a runaway wagon head, a cliff dive, a cliff jump into a car, and a prairie dash in an automobile.

Olympic Theater Ralph Morgan Alexander Kirkland Boots Mallory Irene Ware Tom Keene Keene

Tarzan and Marx Brothers Swing Into Majestic This Friday

The Majestic offers Tarzan the Ape Man starring Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O Sullivan Neil Hamilton and GC Aubrey Smith with Monkey Business the Marx Brothers as added attraction plus Mickey Mouse and Paramount world news. The program runs Friday and Saturday with showings through 9 pm for both features.

Tarzan_the Ape Man Majestic Theater Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan Neil Hamilton Aubrey Smith Paramount

Dinner at Eight beams at Paramount with star lineup

MGMs Dinner at Eight heads to the Paramount on Friday with a star-filled cast led by Marie Dressler and John Barrymore. Wallace Beery Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore also star in this ensemble drama with multiple dramatic sequences culminating in a dinner party. Showtimes begin 1:15 3:22 5:29 7:36 and 9:43. patrons should arrive early.

Paramount Theater Marie Dressler John Barrymore Wallace Beery Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Lee Tracy Edmund Lowe Billie Burke Madge Evans Jean Hersholt Karen Morley Louise Closser Hale Phillips Holmes May Robson

Repeal sparks fresh clash in Noah and De Lawd debate

The Green Pastures victors renew old quarrel as Noah and De Lawd clash over how many kaigs NHkker can board the Ark. The enduring exchange traces to the 1930 debut at the Mansield theater New York and has appeared in about 1,400 performances.

Green Pastures Nebraska Noah de Lawd Kaigs ‘O' Nhkker Mansfield Theater New York de Land

Shabby little house for chicken dinner in Shrine play

Iowa City hosts the Shrine auditorium stage adaptation of Ol Man Noah versus De Land with a 100 plus cast. Performances are set for January 24 and 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Shrine auditorium as a large production arrives.

Noah de Land Shrine Auditorium

Bravermans and Danowitz Involved in Incident

Mrs Strack reports injuries including fractured ribs a broken nose and multiple lacerations in the incident involving the Bravermans and Danowitz.

Bravermans Danowitz

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