Cinderella Tale and Cowboy Capers At State Theatre
This week at the State Theatre features Million Dollar Baby with Priscilla Lane Ronald Reagan and Jeffrey Lynn. Also shown are Hopalong Cassidy Pirates On Horseback and Barnacle Bus with Wallace Beery and May Robson. The Black Cat mystery comedy stars Hugh Herbert Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi.
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State Theater
Curtis Bernhardt
Priscilla Lane
Ronald Reagan
Jeffrey Lynn
Miss Lane
May Robson
Lee Patrick
Helen Westley
John Qualen
Nan Wynn
William Boyd
Russell Hayden
Andy Clyde
Eleanor Stewart
Wallace Beery
Beery
Marjorie Main
Lady Blacksmith
Wyoming
Virginia Weidler
Leo Carrillo
Donald Meek
Barton MacLane
Hugh Herbert
Basil Rathbone
Ecla Lugosi
Brad Crawford
Claire Dodd
Washington
Iowa
Herbert Marshall
Virginia Bruce
Donald Reagan
State
Judy Canova Stars In Sis Hopkins On Iowa Screen Friday
Judy Canova stars as Sis Hopkins in the Iowa premiere, with Charles Butterworth and Bob Crosby among the cast. The plot follows Sis from farm life to college, where she foils cousin Carol’s schemes with her ingenuity. The program also includes Damon Runyon's Tight Shoes and other features.
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Judy Canova
Sis Hopkins
Iowa Screen
Iowa
Charles Butterworth
Sis
Bob Crosby
Susan Hayward
Jerry Colonna
Horace
Carol
Katherine Alexander
Elvin Allman
Carol Adams
Lynn Merrick
Mary Ainslee
Damon Runyon
John Howard
Binnie Barnes
Broderick Crawford
Anne Gwynne
Leo Carrillo
Marx Brothers Comedy Heads Paramount Bill
The new Marx Brothers film Caught In The Draft stars Bob Hope as a rookie in the army with Dorothy Lamour as the colonel daughter. Lynne Overman plays Hope's show business agent arguing over his ten percent. Eddie Bracken joins as the other doughboy in a spoof of army life.
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Paramount Theater
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Hope
Dorothy
Lynne Overman
Bob
Eddie Bracken
Paramount Center
Iowa
Franchot Tone
Joan Bennett
Broadway Film Listings and City Hodgepodge Notes
The page catalogs film lineups at the Iowa Paramount and State theaters with stars like Wallace Beery Merjorie Main Virginia Weidler Harpo Groucho and Chico Marx. It also weaves in New York social tidbits about a midtown merger a theft case a cop in a cabaret and a quip laden closing on oceans area figures.
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the State
Wallace Beery
Merjorie Main
Virginia Weidler
Further Improvements Scheduled For Rialto
Rialto theater completes a phase of its improvement program this week with 410 new cushion-seat chairs installed in the First Avenue house. The theater will close Monday night and reopen Friday with a double feature of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in One Night in the Tropics and W C Fields in The Bank Dick. The Rialto has been redecorated this spring with a new screen and lighting fixtures and an $8,000 air conditioning system.
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Rialto Theater
First Avenue House
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Tropics
W.C Fields
Rialto
Ickes To Experiment On Teaching Drivers To Conserve Gasoline
Washington officials launch a pilot program to educate private motorists on saving fuel with four gallons lasting five. If successful the plan could spread along the eastern seaboard. Police will arrest fuel wasters in parkways while posters and broadcasts urge temperate driving and car maintenance.
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Ickes
Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Seaboard
Gulf
National Capital Park Police
Metropolitan Police
Marx Brothers The Big Store Opens at Paramount
Groucho as Wolf Flywheel private detective teams with Harpo and Chico to guard Tony Martin from a killer in a department store setting. Virginia Grey plays the romantic lead opposite Martin as Groucho woos and wins the wealthy store owner, with Margaret Dumont as foil. Cast includes Douglas Dumbrille Marion Martin Henry Armetta and William Tannen.
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Marx Brothers
Paramount
Harper
Chico
Tony Martin Smear
Groucho
Virginia O’brien
Wolf Flywheel
Harpo
Martin
Marxes
Virginia Grey
Margaret Dumont
Gronuche
Douglas Dumbrille
Marion Martin
Henry Armetta
William Tannen
Philadelphia Story at Palace Feature
The Palace shows The Philadelphia Story a comedy of manners with Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant and James Stewart. Supporting cast includes Ruth Hussey John Howard Roland Young and Virginia Weidler. A companion feature Ride Kelly Ride follows a boy and girl with a stubborn thoroughbred.
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Palace Theater
Katharine Hepburn
Cary Grant
Jimmy Stewart
Ruth Wussey
John Howard
Roland Young
Virginia Weidler
Ride
Kit Carson on Rialto Screen Meets The Missus and Buck Jones
Rialto screens today and Monday present Kit Carson a colorful tale of the famed scout with Jon Hall Dana Andrews and Lynn Bari in the cast Pioneers of the Arizona trails mingle with troopers in the adventure Also shown Meet the Missus in the co feature Buck Jones stars in another chapter of White Eagle and is part of the program
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Rialto
Kit Carson
Arizona Trails
America
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Jon Hall
Carson
Dana Andrews
Lynn Bari
Higgins Family
Buck Jones
Japanese Navy Slams U S Over Chinese Air Force Move
Tokyo reports the Japanese navy accuses the United States Great Britain and Russia of aiding the rebirth of Chiang Kai-shek s air strength by dispatching volunteer pilots to Chungking. The naval air force vows to strike immediately if the Chinese air organization is rebuilt.
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United States
Great Britain
Russia
Navy
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Retaining Draftees Is Fraud as Wood Charges
Gen. Rob ert E. Wood of the America First committee says Marshall’s overseas duty repeal plan is fraud on draftees. He notes the selective service act was sold with an overseas exclusion and warns Congress would mislead drafted men about overseas combat without a war declaration.
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Chicago
INS
Robert E. Wood
America First Committee
George C. Marshall
Army
Wood
Congress
Defense Credits Steel Use At 60 Percent Share
New York AP report says Dow Jones service estimated defense programs absorbed about 60 percent of the nation's steel production with orders tied to armament rising steadily. The survey noted as much as 80 percent of certain steel types were allocated to defense work.
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New York
Dow, Jones and Company
Financial News Service
They Say They Say and Sollywood Actress Doro Lamour Scar
SOLLWOOD Actress Doro Lamour reveals concern over a knee scar from Honolulu. The mark, about an inch, may show when wearing sarongs. Buffalo Senator Burton K Wheeler pleads for no American involvement in the European war and urges Europe to handle its own conflict.
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Sollwood
Dorothy Lamour
Honolulu
Buffalo
N. Y
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
America
Europe
Winchell Notes and Quick Sights From Postwar Scene
Walter Winchell morsels touch on a rooftop garden mural at Rockefeller Center and a Central Park West museum noted as private. The column mentions Navy and pop culture items, cab counts, Sergt Yorks, Peggy Fears, Harry James, Runyon, Sam Kaye, and music, all framed as brisk bulletins.
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Marhatean
Rockette
Rockefeller Center
Central Park West
Explorers’ Club
Polo Grounds
Yorcinds
D. Cushman Coyle
America
Germany
Peggy
Savoy Plaza
Harry James
Runyon
Johnny One-Eye
Collier's
Sammy Kaye
Communications blackout hits Moscow dispatches as sunspots disrupt signals
Sunspots caused a magnetic blackout of radio and land lines Friday night, interrupting Moscow dispatches and long-distance radio with Portugal Spain Mexico and South America. Berlin and London broadcasts continued imperfectly while Harvard and its attache linked the interference to solar particle streams and earth magnetic fields.
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Moscow
Europe
Portugal
Spain
Mexico
South America
Press Wireless
Radio Corporation of America
Berlin
Russia
London
Harvard Observatory
Legion Criticizes Russia Aid Stance on Communism
Chicago IUS report says Milo J. Warner, national commander, warned that Germany's invasion of Russia should not move the American Legion to support communism. The Legion's national executive committee upheld opposition to communism despite wartime aid considerations.
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Chicago
IUS
Germany
Russia
American Legion
Milo J. Warner
Warner
Legion National Executive Committee
Shots Follow Argument Over Rent
Two men are dead and a woman injured after a rent dispute in Jasper Alabama. Frank Wilson 48 tried to collect rent from Arthur Poore 24 and a confrontation ensued. Poore was shot twice and died. Poore’s brother Willie 28 shot Wilson, who later died. Mrs Poore was wounded and hospitalized in critical condition.
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Jasper
Ala
Walker County
Jim Dailey
Dailey
Frank Wilson
Arthur Poore
Wilson
Poore
Willie
Eimligha
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