Iowa OTAGE REVUE brims with Hollywood stars at Iowa Theater
A crowd of Hollywood figures arrives from the West to perform at the Iowa Theater Revue. Don, with long hair, and Patsy mimic Bonnie Baker and Katherine Hepburn style acts. Johnny I Aco, Jack Greeman, Chisholm, Lampe, Eve lyn Brent, and Harry Fox headline with a poster act. The screen film Married and in Love features Knowles and Vinson.
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Golden West
Middle West
Iowa Theater
Bonnie Baker
Orrin Tucker
Patsy
Jack Greeman
Chisholm
Lampe
Evelyn Brent
Harry Fox
Alar
Marshal
Barbara Read
Patric Knowles
Helen Vinson
Children of Czechs Must Gather Bones
Nazi authorities in Prague order Czech children in towns over 5 000 to collect bones from kitchen refuse as teachers organize the task. The announcement gave no reason. Prague also completes milk cow registrations and orders horse registration as Germany requisitions horses. In Teschen, Jews are ordered by the secret police to prepare for deportation to Lublin, Poland.
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Berlin
Prague
Germany
Teschen
Lublin
Poland
Notice of Renewal of Incorporation for Big Four Realty Co
Notice given of filed amended Articles of Incorporation for Big Four Realty Company Cedar Rapids Iowa. Name remains Big Four Realty Company principal business buying holding and exchanging real and personal property including notes bonds and stock. Capital stock authorized ten thousand dollars renewed existence twenty years until first annual meeting in November 1940 with A C Stewart as President and C S Krause H E Pfeiffer as officers and directors. Fischer Fisher Attorneys.
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BIG Four Realty Company
Iowa
Be Four Realty Company
Cedar Rapids
Limnity
A. C. Stewart
C. S Krause
H. E. Pfeiffer
Mythical Creature Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A dense OCR puzzle listing across and down clues including mythical serpentine heads and varied terms from volume to bone and border terms. It presents a mixed set of definitions like siren medusa hydra and other wordplay entries with multiple short hints and cross references.
Curtain Call and Shaw Praise in Hollywood Gossip
Hollywood chatter notes Gabriel Pascal’s United Artists deal for Shaw films with Major Barbara starring Wendy Hiller and Robert Morley. Janet Gaynor sells Forever to Metro for Norma Shearer. Diana and Adrian expect delays as M G M woo Fredric March. Howard Benedict earns producing debut with The Smart Boys as Gone with the Wind buzz builds. Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel receive strong notices.
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Ollywood
INS
George Bernard Shaw
Gabriel Pascal
United Artists
Shaw Movies
G. B
Charlie Chaplin
Pascal
Barbara
Wendy Hiller
Robert Morley
Shaw
Hollywood
Janet Gaynor
Mildred Cram
Janet
Adrian
Gaynor
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Norma Shearer
M-G-M
Fredric March
Norma
Sidney Kingsley
Smart Boys
Charles Skouras
Fox West Coast Theaters
Vivien Leigh
Scarlett
Hatter in Hollywood and a Comical Flight Plan
Miriam Hopkins and Errol Flynn clashed during Virginia City filming. Both headed to New York on the same plane after Hopkins postponed a day based on astrologer advice, adding a humorous twist to their temperamental chemistry.
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Hatter
Hollywood
Miriam Hopkins
New York
Errol Flynn
Virginia City
Errol
Miriam
Life With Father Offered 200000 Film Rights
MGM reportedly offered 200000 for film rights to Life With Father while Broadway’s funniest play thrives. Barbara Jo Ellen, known for Vera Vague on radio, has been signed by Paramount. Mary Howard heads to Washington to promote Abe Lincoln in Illinois and Charlie Rogers advocates Irene Dunne as Jane Addams of Hull House. Gooseflesh explained as arrector pili contraction, with keratosis pilaris described as papules around hair follicles. Vitamin A deficiency linked to chronic gooseflesh, xerosis, and potential night blindness.
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M-G-M
Father
Barbara Jo Ellen
Vera Vague
Paramount
Mary Howard
Washington
Abe Lincoln
Illinois
Charlie Rogers
Irene Dunne
Jane Addams
Hull House
Vitamin A therapy and diet for health testing
A reader proposes testing natural vitamin A from animal sources with a daily 100000 IU dose for two to three weeks, then two 25000 IU capsules daily for months, alongside pro vitamin A rich foods. The note also reports a futile potassium chloride hay fever treatment and questions its effectiveness.
Hollywood Gossip Roundup of 1940s Stars and Travel
A gossip column lists Elaine Addams Irene beauty comparisons and notes on stars including Miss Addams, Elsa Maxwell tour plans, Hedy Lamarr and Gene Markey traveling east with Zanucks and Schenck, Frances Kayes marriage, Sam Goldwyn in New York, Lola Lane with Dick Purcell, Wayne Morris with bride, Gloria Dickson touring, Johnny Weissmuller swimming again after a cold, Anthony Quinn ankle sprain, and Milto Bren injury at Sun Valley.
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Hollywood
Charlie Correll
Andy
Amos
Anné
Lynn Bari
Arline Judge
Jack Judge
Frances Kayes
Henry Isaacs
Elsa Maxwell
Elsa
Hedy LaMarr
Gene Markey
Darryl Zanucks
Joseph Schenck
Leo Carrillo
Lombardi, Ltd
Frances
Sam Goldwyn
New York
Sam
Wuthering Heights
Lola Lane
Dick Purcell
Wayne Morris
Ruby Schinasi
Pete Westmore
Gloria Dickson
Mack Sennett
Laura Rogers
Will Rogers
Johnny Weissmuller
Allergy remedy details I am not sure why it fails
The note discusses a treatment proposed as three times daily for a week or 80 tablets, listing allergic rhinitis eczema hives spasmodic asthma and other allergy manifestations. It warns readers to dissolve the tablet in plenty of water rather than swallowing powder and notes it is protected by John F. Dille Co.
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John F. Dille Co
Theaters Feature Big Screen in January Listings
The Paramount presents The Secret of Dr Kildare and Charlie Chan in City of Darkness. IOWA shows Streets de Paree and Married and In Love. Rialto screens Parents on Trial and Condemned Woman. Strand offers Czech comedy Fa lesna Kocicka. State shows Barricade and Emergency Squad. Palace screens Stagecoach in In Name Only. Bond sale notice for Center Point Iowa announces sale of 3000 in five bonds at 4 percent, January 30, 1940.
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Paramount
Secret of Dr. Kildare
Lew Ayres
Lionel Barrymore
Charlie Chan
Sidney Toler
Washington Towish
Center Point
Iowa
County Linn
State of
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Pat
Fischer & Fisher
Attorneys
Dr. Kildare
Ew Liomel
Sara Haden
Samuel S. Minds
Emma Dunn
Walter Kingsford
Gilbert Grant Mitchell
Auma Kruger
Mat Pendleton
Laraine Day
Duke of
Jane Withers
Chicken Wagon Family
North Africa
Plant
K. Hepburn
John Archer
Alan Mowbray
Frank Woodruff
Will Megaphone
Howard Benedict
RKO
Baltimore
Baltimorians
Howard
Personal Health Service
SY William Brady
M. D
Questions & Answers
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Jeffrey Lynn
Gladys George
Gale Page
Alice Faye
Midwest
ACE Ab
Spring Byington
Warner Bros. Picture
Arizona
Frank
Buck
Morgan Virginia Weidler
Guy Kibbee
Slim Summerville
Douglas Fowley
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Miss Addams
Irene
Nrl Wil Dress
Lega
Donald “Small Fry
O'Connor
Tangled
Alan Barbara Read
Cary Grant
Susan Ssar
Ward Hawk
S. Ca
Mae
Ralph Bellamy
Gene Lockhart
Rial
Jean Parker
Johnny Downs
Sally Eilers
Louis Hayward
Mandrake the Magician
Rialto
Falesna Kocicka
Barricade
Warner Baxter
William Henry
Louise Campbell
Palace
Stagecoach
Claire Trevor
Carole Lombard
R. W. Lockhart
Washington Township
Linn County
Childs Cove
the Bismarck
Emil Eitel
Karl Eitel
Roy Steffen
Hotel- Arck
Mdolph and
THE
Chrysler Corporation
Detroit
DeSoto
de Soto
DE Soto Division
Michigan
Major Bowes
C.B.S. Network
Thurs
E.S. T
DE Soto and
Plymouth
Wagner Motor Co
3Rd Ave
8Th St
Schoon Motor CO
Monticello
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