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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1933
Page
9
The Iowa theater presents a murder mystery packed with comedy romance and drama in A Shriek in the Night. Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot star with Parnell Pratt Arthur Hoyt and Lillian Harmer delivering strong supporting work as the plot twists through suspense and humor.
In a strained hospital drama Wally seeks patience and Ted Orvis lies near death as nurse hopeful Patty Glendale pledges to care for him with help from a housekeeper. A late scene shows Irene Allen poisoning Mrs Atterbury prompting Wally to intervene as the tale continues.
Ben Lyon and Mary Brian star in Girl Missing a three day Rialto feature with Glenda Farrell Guy Kib bee Pat Collins Lyle Talbot and more in Palm Beach setting as a clever chorus girl solves a murder. The second feature The Iron Master stars Reginald Denny and Lila Lee with a crash that sparks enmity and intrigue at Stillman Ironworks. Broadway Brevities The World Champ with Jack Dempsey and Pepper Pot complete the program.
Shirley Bell as Little Orphan Annie will perform at the Iowa theater on Saturday July 29 in person. A morning matinee starts at 11 o clock with a meet and greet for children and parents followed by a feature picture. Annie appears at all performances that day in a one day-only engagement.
A double bill opens today at the Olympic featuring They Just Had to Get Married with Slim Summerville Zasu Pitts and Henry Armetta. The Phantom of Crestwood stars Pauline Frederick as a suspected murderer amid a house party with Ricardo Cortez H B Warner Mary Duncan Skeets Gallagher Aileen Pringle and Karen Morley in key roles.
Dr Frank Soukup president of the Czechoslovak senate arrives this afternoon to address Bohemian organizations at 8 PM in the C B P S hall. He will transmit greetings from President Masaryk and discuss conditions in the new republic. He stays at the Montrose hotel until Monday departure for Chicago with his secretary.
Mrs Lila Weston vanishes on Mascia Weston’s eighteenth birthday. Detective George Wright probes as Marcia’s engagement to Wally Atterbury collides with Sonia Ransome’s schemes. Ted Orvis is hurt in a kidnapping attempt as Wally rushes to save him and deliver Ted to a hospital room.
Wally Atterbury rushes back to the Atterbury estate to assemble help for locating Marcia after Ted Orvis, exhausted from events, insists on staying put. He plans to summon George Wright for a search while Sonia Ransome plots beside him, her eyes alight with unresolved schemes.
The Sokol association will hold its annual picnic at the Sokol camp near Center Point next Sunday. Contests include volleyball indoor baseball horseshoe pitching bowling and swimming. It will be a basket picnic and will continue all day. Friends are invited.
The Western Bohemian Fraternal association local committee has finalized plans to send about a hundred Cedar Rapids members to the Czechoslovak Day event in Chicago on August 20. The celebration at Soldier Field is expected to draw 2,800 participants.
The coffin of British Army major Angus Howard Reginald Ogilvy, Hussars, raised after 27 years in Fez Morocco, is being buried in Dundee Scotland. Ogilvy earned the DSO for the South African War and later served as calvary instructor by invitation of the Moroccan Sultan. He died in Fez at 46, with travel home delayed by Morocco’s unsettled state.
A reflective voice discusses Prohibition fears in states, the London conference, and the gold standard shift. The speaker notes export losses, currency impacts, and the need to rebuild the domestic market while criticizing European outreach and unofficial diplomats. The piece contrasts national self reliance with international debt ideas and emphasizes home economics.
Survey reaches 12 000 feet above sea level on Mount Kenya northern slope as planners map an auto road to the snow line. Route crosses grassy glades and water pools used by elephants and rhinos, targeting Semdeyo 15 500 feet high with near permanent snow. Lake Ellis lies near the equator within walking distance of perpetual ice.
An aged police dog named Bob in Minneapolis is described as a loyal on duty sentinel. He learned traffic lights and guided schoolchildren across busy intersections, earning respect from residents and officials alike before his career ended.
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