Joe E. Brown at State in Flirting With Fate and Charlie Chan
Joe E Brown headlines Flirting With Fate at the New State with Leo Carillo Steffi Duna Beverly Roberts and Wynne Gibson The comedy shows a vaudeville troupe South America tale and a revolution climax The second feature is Charlie Chan in Honolulu starring Sidney Toler with Phyllis Brooks Eddie Collins Claire Dodd and George Zucco.
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Joe E. Brown
Fate
New State
Leo Carillo
Steffi Duna
la Cucaracha
Beverly Roberts
Wynne Gibson
Tenderfoot
Joe
South America
Charlie Chan
Honolulu
Sidney Toler
Chan
Phyllis Brooks
Eddie Collins
Claire Dodd
George Zucco
Humphrey Bogart at Paramount Tuesday
Humphrey Bogart stars in King of the Underworld at Paramount starting Tuesday. The Warner Brothers melodrama features a Napoleonic gang chief with thrilling action and humor plus a surprise ending. Competing feature Burn Em Up OConnor showcases famed auto drivers including Louis Meyer.
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Humphrey Bogart
Warner Brothers
Paramount
Bogart
O'Connor
Dennis O'Keefe
Cecilia Parker
Louis Meyer
Stand Up and Fight at Paramount with Beery and Taylor
Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor star in a Western set in 1850s Maryland. The film centers on the railroad versus stagecoach lines with fast action scenes including hand to hand combat gun battles and wagon wrecks. Florence Rice Helen Broderick Charles Bickford Barton MacLane and others support this outdoor drama.
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Wallace Beery
Robert Taylor
Paramount Theater
Maryland
Taylor
Florence Rice
Helen Broderick
Charles Bickford
Barton MacLane
Charley Grapewin
John Qualen
Robert Gleckler
Anson Weeks To Be At Danceland Tonight Dance
Anson Weeks appears at Danceland ballroom on Thursday evening with his band from New York's Waldorf Astoria. Advance tickets go on sale a week before the dance at Lyman's cafe Belden Hill's cigar store Paramount pharmacy and Racine's No 3 in Iowa City. The event aims for a large crowd as Roger Graham and his band also perform for dancing. The waltz contest semi finals are held tonight with finals scheduled for next Saturday February 4.
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Anson
Danceland Ballroom
Frank Brookhiser
Danceland
Anson Weeks
Cedar Rapids
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York
Lyman
Belden Hill
Paramount Pharmacy
Racine’s
Iowa City
Brookhiser
Roger Graham
Melodrama at the Iowa Tuesday
Frankie Darro stars in Wanted By Police at the Iowa theater with Evalyn Knapp Robert Kent and Matty Fain in a tale of a high school graduate drawn into a hot car racketeering plot. A thriller climax follows as police close in and the companion feature Fighting Thoroughbreds screens.
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Frankie Darro
Iowa
Evalyn Knapp
Robert Kent
Matty Fain
Darro
Frankie
Ralph Byrd
Mary Sue Robert Allen
George Yes
Vivacious Lady at Palace Headlines Ginger Rogers Pair
Ginger Rogers co stars with James Stewart in Vivacious Lady a breezy romantic comedy at the Palace about newlyweds hiding their marriage from a stern college president. Cast includes James Ellison Euelah Bondi and Charles Coburn. The second feature Fast Company stars Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice in a lively murder mystery.
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Ginger Rogers
James Stewart
Palace Theater
James Ellison
Euelah Bondi
Charles Coburn
Melvyn Douglas
Florence Rice
Paramount and State Theaters Present Weekday-By-Week Screenings
The district cinema listings feature Stand Up And Fight with Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor at the Paramount, King Of The Underworld with Humphrey Bogart also at the Paramount on Tuesday, and Flirting With Fate starring Joe E. Brown opening at the State on Thursday. Pacific Liner with Victor McLaglen, Wendie Barrie, and Chester Morris runs at the Iowa with The Lady Vanishes, while Angela Is Twenty-Two stars at the Iowa next Thursday. Also at the Iowa, Wanted By The Police features Frankie Darro Evalyn Knapp and Robert Kent on Friday, plus a State theater showpiece Devil's Island scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Beery
Robert Taylor
Florence Rice
Paramount Theater
Humphrey Bogart
Paramount Screen
Joe E. Brown
State Theater
Victor McLaglen
Wendie Barrie
Chester Morris
Iowa Theater
Margaret Lockwood
Philip Merivale
Sinclair Lewis
Angela
Lowa
Frankie Darro
Evalyn Knapp
Robert Kent
Film Shows Penal Colony Horrors at State Theater
Devil's Island tells of Boris Karloff unjustly sentenced to the penal colony and his fellow convicts as they plot an escape. Recaptured, Karloff faces a death sentence before a final rescue ending the thriller. The companion feature Strange Faces stars Andy Devine Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent.
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Devil's Island
State Theater
Boris Karloff
Karloff
Devil’s Island
Andy Devine
Frank Jenks
Dorothea Kent
Rhythm of the Saddle at Rialto Stars Autry and Burnette
Gene Autry headlines the Rialto feature Rhythm of the Saddle with Smiley Burnette as the comic Frog and Peggy Moran as the leading lady. The program includes Sky Giants with Richard Dix and Joan Fontaine, a Thursday news timed release, and a closing serial Wild Bill Cook with Cats and the Fiddle in the lineup.
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Gene Autry
Rialto
Smiley Burnette
the Frog
Gene
Peggy Moran
Sky Giants
Richard Dix
Chester Morris
Harry Carey
Joan Fontaine
Wild Bill Eook
Son of Frankenstein Opens Friday At Iowa Theater
Universal presents a new version of the Frankenstein story with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the reimagined cast. Basil Rathbone plays Baron Wolf von Frankenstein torn between love and science. Lions Atwill Josephine Hutchinson Emma Dunn co-star with Donnie Dugan and Edgar Norton. The co feature The Long Shot showcases horse racing with Gordon Jones and Marsha Hunt.
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Universal
Iowa
Frankenstein
Lionell Atwill
Josephine Hutchinson
Emma Dunn
Donnie Dugan
Edgar Norton
Gordon Jones
Marsha Hunt
Talented Young Actors In Cast Of Lewis Play
Four young actors join the cast of Angela Is Twenty Two the Sinclair Lewis Fay Wray play at the Iowa theater for one night Thursday Feb 2 star Philip Merivale with Lewis commenting Mr Lewis appears as commentator Flora Campbell plays the 22 year old title role opposite Merivale Also in the cast Mary Howes Richard Kendrick and Barry Sullivan Campbell Sullivan previously worked with Lewis in It Cant Happen Here at Cohasset Miss Campbell trained with Eva Le Gallienne in New York and appeared in Room Service Many Mansions on Broadway Sullivan a Temple University alumnus first seen in I Want a Policeman later in Brother Rat and Room Service.
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Angela
Sinclair Lewis
Fay Wray
Iowa Theater
Philip Merivale
Mr. Lewis
Mr. Merivale
Mary Howes
Richard Kendrick
Barry Sullivan
Miss Campbell
Mr. Sullivan
Cohasset
Mass
Nowata
Okla
Eva LeGallienne
New York
Room Service
Temple University
Philadelphia
Brother Rat
Early fork use in Italy described
The Italians were first to use forks for eating purposes. The implement was introduced for eating fruits and other foods that stained fingers, though two-tined forks for steadying meats during carving were used long before forks for eating.
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SON
Ceeks Orchestra
Lyman’s
Belden Hill’s
Paramount Drug Store
Racine
Elery Hearts
Beery and Taylor
Ieee
Beulah Bondi
Fast Company
Melvin Douglas
Palace
Mmm
Sinclair C
SAA Co
Tax Aine
3Homer Eee Ean Mnatiarmpenee Neit
Check Ox
Coders
Pn Am
Brimstone
Rice Charles Bickford
Bels Arc
Miia
Popeye
Paramount News ‘World
Rialto Picture
Devine
Col
Lena
Umi
UBL
Barry Fitzgerald
Michael
Pedgrave
Alfred Mitchleok
Lukas
Whitty
Newhall
Norway
Alburnett and
Palo
Dix Morris Can
Paul Guilfoyle
Lafayette Cafe
John Thomes
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