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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1934
Page
13
A review of a stage show titled Green Pastures describes a powerful performance depicting Black spiritual themes. Critics praise the warmth in the production and note its moving pace, with emphasis on emotional scenes and stagecraft that captivate the audience.
A temple audience fills the hall as the Hall Johnson choir performs Negro spirituals in a dramatic program. The piece blends humor and reverent praise with references to biblical figures and the exalting sound of organlike tones.
Dr Edward A Steiner of Grinnell College recalls attending The Green Pastures and the Passion Play. He describes the production as a good show that led him to feel a transfigured Land in His heaven and the discovery of God.
The Paramount theater screens Eddie Cantor’s Roman Scandals through Sunday to draw thousands for the musical comedy starring Cantor with Ruth Etting Gloria Stuart and David Manners. Monday brings Elmer Rice’s Counsellor at Law with John Barrymore and a strong cast for a three day run plus a Short selection including Babes in the Goods and latest Paramount news.
Jack Holt delivers a standout performance in The Woman I Stole at the Olympic along with Tom Mix in Terror Trail. The bill also includes News a comedy and two Krazy Kat cartoons, all set around an isolated desert edge port.
A crowded theater page lists current films and stars at venues in the area. Highlights include Kate Smith and Swanee Music Revue, Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern in Let's Fall in Love, Paramounts Roman Scandals with Eddie Cantor, The Green Pastures at Shrine Temple, Madame Spy with Fay Wray, Gary Cooper in Today We Live, The Cheat with Tallulah Bankhead, Candette Colbert in Three-Cornered Moon, John Wayne in The Three Musketeers, and Western titles with Tom Mix and Jack Holt, plus a Union post event in West Union on February 22.
The Iowa theater opens Friday with Wheeler and Woolsey in Hips Hips Hooray a lavish musical comedy starring Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Ruth Etting Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee The plot follows two fruit lipstick sellers who entangle a beauty empire and steal from a villain then flee by racing car amid dances and tunes including Keep Romance Alive and Keep on Doin What You're Doin.
Dr William Brady explains fat as a superior fuel to starch or protein, noting 9.4 calories per gram for fat versus 4 for starch or protein. Fat is emulsified to chyle, absorbed, and transported via the thoracic duct to the bloodstream. In disease such as alcoholism diabetes and nephritis fat accumulates in blood. the body uses absorbed fat as needed for fuel.
A reader asks about university vaccination mandates and the safety of vaccines. A separate query discusses rheumatic fever, heredity concerns, and risks to offspring with medical explanations of how streptococcal infections can affect heart valves and endocarditis, plus cautions about perceived terracy myths.
In Athens a medical consultation on Samuel Insull former Chicago utilities magnate deported Jan 31 was held. Dr Voilas Insull’s physician and Mrs Insull were present then heart specialist Dr Maroulis joined. Doctors said Insull was very ill but released no full diagnosis. US consulate reps monitored but declined comment.
Hollywood report says Roscoe Ates, noted for stuttering as a film comedian, left for appearances with papers serving notice that his wife has filed for separate maintenance. Mrs Ates seeks $1,560 monthly. An armed guard accompanied Ates during boarding.
Advert advertises FASTEETH as a firm hold for slipping false teeth with no powder to sprinkle. Claims include secure feel, comfort, and no gummy or pasty taste. Promotes purchase at May Drug Co or any drug store.
A House Democratic group weighs amending the $350 million CWA bill to curb waste and wage disputes, propose a bipartisan board to oversee projects, and limit project types while Hopkins holds control of about $1 billion in relief funds. The White House backs Hopkins, complicating any move ahead of the election.
In Paris at Parc des Princes Deputy Andre Hesse and John Beineix dueled after an article Beineix wrote criticizing Hesse’s activities as a lawyer for Serge Stavisky. Two shots were fired apiece with no injury as spectators watched in cold wind and quiet stands. The dispute stems from the Bayonne pawn shop debacle and did not end in satisfaction of honor.
London air turned thick with fog trapping thousands in stations as four people died in mishaps. Train schedules were largely canceled and bus and tram services suspended with a tram misrouted to Streatham Hill.
New York reports stage and screen star Pauline Frederick married Col. Joseph A Marmon U S A last Sunday in Scarsdale N Y The marriage her fifth followed a small ceremony attended by close friends Marmon is stationed at an undisclosed post with the Army Army officials confirm the wedding and keep details limited
The 58 year old veteran of World War I and 1939 Army War College graduate serves as chief of staff to the second corps area on Governors Island. A native of Iowa, he attended the General Staff School and the School of the Line. Miss Frederick's former husband was H C Leighton a Los Angeles hotel owner who secured an annulment in 1930.
New York report outlines a long civil dispute from 1904 to 1918 over a dissolved partnership between William B. Lawrence and Morgan Cowperthwait. Referees issued three opinions before Justice Collins dismissed the original complaint as senile litigation.
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