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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1946
Page
21
Local theaters present a slate led by She Stranger with Edward G. Robinson Loretta Young and Orson Welles opening at the Iowa. The Return of Rusty and Make Mine Music join a Jeanie Gets Married sequence at Paramount while The Green Years and The Wife of Monte Cristo headline the State. Western Bad Bascomb and other features fill remaining billings with Harvey Girls and Danger Signal as second run.
In this week's listings Lichine and Riabouchinska perform the sil houette sequence in Walt Disney's technicolor Make Mine Music at the Town, Dinah Shore singing as they dance. Also at the State Margaret O'Brien and Wallace Beery star in Bad Bascomb, a western thriller. The Stranger, with Edward G Robinson Loretta Young and Orson Welles, opens at the Iowa Thursday. At the Paramount Joan Leslie stars in Janie Gets Married with Robert Hutton. And at the State John Loder and Lenore Aubert headline The Wife of Monte Cristo, an adventure romance.
Warner Brothers film Night and Day marks the studio’s twentieth sound anniversary. Technicolor musical stars Cary Grant as Cole Porter, with Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman, and Ginny Simms in supporting roles, opening Thursday at the Iowa theater for Aug 8.
The passage notes that its score comprises numerous Porter songs sung by Mary Martin, highlighting the enduring influence of the composer’s catalog within the production.
Roy Disney, president of Walt Disney Productions, has signed a two year feature contract with RKO Radio Pictures while retaining the current short subjects deal. Two technicolor features will be produced yearly, with both likely in color and the arrangement set to run alongside the existing terms.
The Times shows Frontier Law co featuring Russell Hayden and Fuzzy Knight today through Tuesday. Blood on the Sun stars James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney and What Next Corporal Hargrove features Robert Walker. Night in Paradise with Merle Oberon and Turhan Bey plays tonight and Monday with The Spider Woman Strikes Back thriller.
On Broadway with Walter Winchell reports a former Ziegfeld Follies beauty Georgia Frederick owning jewels valued over 100000, including a six karat canary diamond, inherited from Capt. Frederick Clay. The widow quips that money matters only for an acting fee, while heirs named Henry Clay feature in the tale amid Peron-era musings.
A collage of names and rumors covers Bernard Baruch atomic power ideas Central Park plans Joe Louis and Gene Tierney family notes Alec Templeton politics and theatre industry moves Lee Shubert theater deals Ray Brock marriage Paris Eloise Kummer August weddings Hank Greenberg Giants bid and Front Page revival details in a busy society round-up.
Sunday show times announced for Paramount The Green Years and other features at Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Strand Marion with multiple reels and shorts. Listings include a mix of classic titles such as The Harvey Girls Scarlet Street and Abbott and Costello in Hollywood with varied start times across venues.
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