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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1934
Page
9
Cedar Rapids theaters announce a busy summer with top releases. Iowa shows Of Human Bondage and a double feature Murder on the Blackboard and Twin Husbands. Paramount screens Catherine the Great and The Thin Man, plus Operator 13 and The Cockeyed Cavaliers on various bills. State opens She Learned About Sailors while Palace presents Bolero and Sailors Holiday with a second feature.
Leslie Howard stars as Phillip Carey opposite Bette Davis in the film version of Somerset Maugham's novel. The Town screens the drama next Friday with supporting cast Kealy Johnson Frances Dee Reginald Denny Alan Hale and Reginald Owen. Also featured are Clark and McCullough comedy Hey Nanny Nanny a Merrie Melody cartoon Goin to Heaven on Mule and an RKO news reel.
George Raft stars in Bolero at the Palace with Sally Rand, Carole Lombard, Frances Drake, and William Frawley. The film winds around Maurice Ravel Bolero and depicts a youth’s rise to fame by sacrificing emotions. A second feature Sailors Holiday with Alan Hale and Sally Eilers plus shorts are shown.
Alice Faye leads the comedy romance She Learned About Sailors opening at the State theater. Lew Ayres plays a navy officer who falls for Faye as Harry Green, Frank Mitchell, and Jack Durant provide comic ballast. vivacious songs promise hit tunes.
Beginning Sunday Playing the Olympic for four days starting Sunday is Hips Hips Hooray featuring Wheeler and Walsey Ruth Etting Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee Lady For a Day featuring Warren William May Robson Glenda Farrell Guy Kibbe Ned Sparks and Walter Connolly in a four star picture and Sweetheart of Sigma Chi with Mary Carlisle Buster Crabbe Charles Starrett Florence Lake Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra The Three Midshipmen and the Three Blue Keys It is a college musical that is.
A vivid diary style note from a film crew member describes long marching scenes for a town parade on set. The entry celebrates the colorful Dixie theme, veteran extras, and a chaotic yet fascinating production environment, with mentions of Jack Yord and a bustling, nostalgic atmosphere.
A Texan paid over two hundred dollars in hospital expenses after being bitten by a dog, a sum he accepted to avoid hydrophobia and to give the dog Tige a chance at life. The tale illustrates rare consent to humane treatment over immediate punishment.
Chicago police say romance in the parks will be tolerated within limits. Capt James Sammis notes Lincoln Park officers will keep the park safe for lovers and deter intruders, while Lt Martin Hayes cites fourteen men patrolling Jackson Park with a curfew of 11 p.m., later on hot nights.
A film crew captures a Confederate Reunions Parade in a Kentucky town. Costumes and props include Confederate greys, G A R outfits, era mothers and calico, horse-drawn carriages, fife and drum, and a customs parade stand.
Catherine the Great starring Elizabeth Bergner opens at the Paramount Tuesday for three days with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in support. The film traces Catherine at the Russian court on her wedding day and notes her rumored lovers as Popeye and Goofy cartoons play on the same bill with new sound news.
Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man comes to the Paramount theater for a four day engagement starting Friday. William Powell and Myrna Loy head a star cast including Maureen O’Sullivan Nat Pendleton and Minna Gambill as a witty detective tale unfolds with humor and suspense and may earn Acad emy award acclaim for its originality.
Two comedy attractions run through Tuesday at the Rialto. The headline is Joe E. Brown in Son of a Sailor with Sara toga as air carrier backdrop and Jean Muir in the feminine lead. The second feature is Sing and Like It starring Zasu Pitts with a cast including Kelton Horton Sparks Pendleton and others. A Broadway Brevities is added.
The Town presents a Monday double feature headlined by Murder on the Blackboard with Bana Macrae and James Gleason. The spooky thriller promises chills and laughs alongside John Millan Shirley Grey and Monroe Owsley in Who Killed Louise Halloran with Edna Mae Oliver and Gleason guiding the mystery. Louise Halloran plays the music instructor at the school where Hildegarde Withers lurks.
Louise is found dead in a cloakroom and a murder probe begins. Suspects include Olaf the janitor, Jane Davis and her lottery partner, Addison Stevens and MacFarland. Miss Oliver mimics Hildegarde Withers and cops pursue the tangled scheme.
Paramount theater announces a summer lineup of major releases. Dashe fell Hammett's The Thin Man stars Powell and Loy. Shoot the Works with Ben Bernie. Born to Be Kissed with Harlow and Barrymore. Little Miss Marker sequel Baby Take a Bow with Shirley Temple. Will Rogers in Handy Andy. Mae West Dietrich in Scarlet Empress. Cleopatra with Colbert Crosby Hopkins. She Loves Me Not with Crosby Hopkins.
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