Theaters This Week Offer Green Pastures and Star-Studded With
Cedar Rapids venues roll out a busy week of performances and films. The Shrine temple hosts The Green Pastures with its original cast on Jan 24 and 25. Hollywood talkies like Dinner at Eight and Convention City appear at the Paramount and Iowa venues alongside new star showcases.
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Zasu Pitts
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Palace
Rialto
Hollywood
Alice Brady
Jimmy Durante
Thelma Todd
Stanley Lupino
Jeft
Marie Dressler
John Barrymore
Jean Harlow
Wallace Beery
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Green Pastures
Career Of Richard Harrison in Green Pastures at Shrine
Richard Harrison, at 66, made his debut in De Land in The Green Pastures and repeats the role in New York. Born to slave parents in London Ontario, he rose through chautauqua and teaching to act, finally accepting the revered Marc Connelly play after Bishop Shipman urged him.
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Green Pastures
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Shrine Temple
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Ontario
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Detroit Free Press
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Lyceum
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A G Wells
Santa Fe Railroad
Los Angeles
Dunbar
Agricultural and Technical College
Greensboro
N. C
Herbert Shipman
Lyceum Bureau
Stebbins
Shipman
Charles Farrell and Bette Davis Star In Iowa Theater Run
Charles Farrell and Bette Davis bring The Big Shake Down to the Iowa theater for a three day engagement starting Tuesday. Ricardo Cortez leads as villain with Glenda Farrell and others in a racketeering tale based on Sam Engels story Cut Rate.
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Bette Davis
Iowa
Farrell
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Ricardo Cortez
56Th Street
Glenda Farrell
Allen Jeskins
Henry O'Neill
Phillip Faversham
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Sam Engels
Jane Froman
Hollywood
Dinner At Eight At Paramount Draws Large Audiences
The Paramount screening of Dinner At Eight attracts big crowds as the feature opens, drawing praise for its cast and production. Early reports note performances by Hartiow, John, and Lee Trars, with audiences amazed by the old favorites and the film’s star power.
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Dancers In The Dark Headlines Rialte Double Bill
A Rialte double bill led by Miriam Hopkins and Jack Oakte opens today at Rialtes Raaarde 2 ars fame. The program features The Fr a Ske pe the a nf Gg fay Bearcee Wheatare and a Paramount Books stage adaptation of Roman Scandals with screen and radio stars.
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Damaged Lives At State Tells Story And Teaches Lesson
A State theater showing Damaged Lives, endorsed by the American Social Hygiene Association, presents a dramatic film and propaganda on social diseases. The story follows a young married couple’s infection and fight toward health, with supplementary sex hygiene reels and an informative lecture supervised by Social Hygiene officials.
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Meanest Gal in Town at Iowa four day show
A five star laugh riot arrives at the Iowa theater for four days next Friday. The cast features Zasu Pitts El Brendel Pert Kelton James Gleason and Sheets Gallagher. The program includes Ely Culbertson bridge short Murder at the Bridge Table a Pepper Pot novelty Little Miss Mischief a Krazy Kat cartoon Curio Shop and an RKO newsreel.
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Iowa
Zasu Pitts
el Brendel
Pert Kelton
James Gleason
Sheets Gallagher
Bowery
Pitts
Ely Culbertson Bridge
Miss Mischief
RKO
Secrets and Jim Tully Pictures At Olympic Theater
At the Olympic theater today the features include Secrets starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard and Jim Tully’s Laughter in Hell. Secrets praised as a season standout shows Pickford’s familiar charm and technique.
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Jim Tully
Olympic Theater
Secrets
Mary Pickford
Leslie Howard
Hell
Miss Pickford
America
Gallant Lady heads to Paramount with Ann Harding
Ann Harding stars in Gallant Lady with Clive Brook Otto Kruger and Dickie Moore opening Friday for four days at the Paramount. The film follows a girl whose lover dies attempting an Atlantic flight leaving her to bear his child and later surrender her son for adoption while she builds a business career and seeks reunion under secrecy.
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Clive Brook
Ann Harding
Dickie Moore
Paramount
Ann Sothern
Edmund Lowe
Iowa Theater
Lyman Wiliams
Charlotte Merriam
Harry Myers
State
Otto Kruger
Atlantic
Destiny
Kate Smith to Appear Three Days at Iowa Theatre
Kate Smith the Songbird of the South will perform a Swanee Music Revue with thirty in the company at the Iowa Theatre for three days starting January 23. She began radio in 1932 after Broadway success and has appeared in The Big Broadcast and Hello Everybody. The screen feature The Meanest Gal in Town and an all star cast accompany her stage show.
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Hollywood
the Majestic
Alice Brady
Jackie Cooper
Jimmy Durante
Frank Morgan
Madge Evans
Eddie Quillan
Fay Templeton
May Robson
Russell Hardie
Albertina Rasch
Thelma Todd
Stanley Lupino
Paramount
Kirma
Bombay
Kate Smith
Songbird
South
Iowa Theater
Greenville
Kate
Capitol
New York
the Palace
Iowa
Swanee Music Revue
Steve Evans
Don Cummings
the Reillys
Jack Miller
Pert Kelton
Zasu Pitts
Skeets Gallagher
el Brendel
James Gleason
College Coach Heads Double Bill at Palace Today
A Palace show today features College Coach with Dick Powell Ann Dvorak and Pat O'Brien offering football themed comedy and drama plus a second feature Double Harness with Ann Harding and William Powell. A newsreel short Following the Horses and Fox news complete the program.
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Dick Powell
Ann Dvorak
Pat O'Brien
Marquette University
Palace
Ann Harding
William Powell
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