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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1938
Page
9
Hollywood report notes William Powell sold Jean Harlow’s novel Today Is Tonight to MGM and that her mother will receive 10,000 for film rights and collaborate on the daughter’s story. Jean’s mother plans Havana rehab and will discuss adaptation on return.
Chatter in Hollywood swirls around Lupe Velez kissing Johnny Weissmuller at a night spot while he arrives with a blonde. The scene prompts talk of their terms and separate paths, as Frances Mercer recovers from a hair-pulling mishap in Viva Las Ladas. Glimpses show Billie Burke possibly playing the mother in You Cant Take It With You, Barbara Davis on set, and stars jetting to premieres in Miami and Chicago.
A lively night spot scene features Astley with Victor Saville and Rose Stradner, plus Alice Faye and Mack Gordon entertaining and Tony Martin applauding from the sidelines. Stu Erwin heads to San Francisco for his dog Scotty show entry. The Pat O’Briens celebrate their seventh anniversary as a Ted Healy benefit is announced for Saturday.
Paris reports France will equip a phantom ship in a Breton yard to act as a wireless controlled target. It will drift from harbor with a smoke screen as bombs and shells strike at distant ranges while its remote operator remains miles away. The aim is a realistic training tool already used by the US and British navies.
Paramount presents Love and Hisses with Walter Winchell Simone Simon and Ben Bernie. Iowa screens Wise Girl with Miriam Hopkins and Ray Mallard. New State features Mae West in a separate program.
The listing highlights showings at Rialto and Palace with stars such as Charles Winninger Charles Butterworth Walter Catlett Boris Karloff Gene Autry Lyle Talbot Polly Rowles Wallace Beery Warner Baxter Elizabeth Allen Patsy Kelly Lyda Roberti. It notes titles including Every Day's a Holiday The Invisible Manace Rootin Tootin Rhythm Westbound Limited Slave Ship Nobody's Baby.
Franklin senior high school voice classes perform in the school auditorium Sunday January 23 at 3 pm. Miss Helen Keith directs the program with an eighty voice a capella choir in robes and no admission charge. Lucile Hamlin plays piano accompaniments for works by Bach Grieg and others.
The Rialto reopens Rootin Tootin Rhythm with Gene Autry and the Oklahoma Outlaws on Friday and Saturday. The double bill includes West Bound Limited with Lyle Talbot and Polly Bowles, plus Chapter 3 of Mysterious Pilot, a comedy and news reel.
In this contract bridge vignette by W E McKenney, East's bold discard enables West to defeat North's diamond contract. After a sequence of leads and ruffs, North fails to place losing clubs and a heart squeeze backfires, with East holding the high spade and West clearing clubs to seal the 13th trick. Special to The Gazette.
A California sheepdog named Passano is wrongly blamed for lamb losses and given to a turkey ranch. He trains to guard and herd thousands of turkeys, but his mood sours and fellow dogs shun him, leaving him an outcast for life. The true ending invites theories to explain the odd tale.
Members of the Franklin County Petroleum Retailers Association and police officials cooperate to curb traffic deaths in Columbus by unanimously voting against selling gasoline to drivers who obviously have consumed too much alcohol for safe driving.
Prognostications for this day hint at gains through consultation with diplomats, merger heads, or secret circles. Litigation, speculation, and new contracts may promote interests and funds while birthdays may see progress via secret understandings and diplomatic rings. A child born today may have tact and a legal mind.
New Brunswick plans to overhaul a long criticized debt statute amid 20 years of agitation led by the New Brunswick Barristers Association. Attorney General J B McNair pushes amendments to curb creditor executions and address the era’s famed rigidity seen in classic cases.
In St. John largest city in the province an average of six persons are jailed monthly for debts. This item notes enforcement actions targeting debtors and local imprisonment rates.
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