This Week at The Cedar Rapids Theaters
Screenplays mix comedy action and drama across Cedar Rapids venues. Paramount features Wil Rogers in Doubtine Thomas with Star Night in Cocoanut Grove and Private Worlds with Claudette Colbert, while Night Life of the Gods and The Girl From Tenth Avenue headline other bills. The Town shows The Girl From Tenth Avenue and Men of the Hour with Wallace Ford. Iowa presents Chasing Yesterday with Anne Shirley and Gigolette, plus Ol For the Lamps of China. State highlights Let Em Have It with a back stage police tale. Palace lists The World Moves On and Home On The Range. Rialto features Margaret Sullavan in The Good Fairy and John Wayne in Texas Terror. Kiwanis showboat outdoors at Ellis Park Thursday to Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Wil Rogers
Doubtine Thomas
Paramount
Cocoanut Grove
Paramount News
Private Worlds
Claudette Colbert
Bette Davis
Tenth Avenue
Wallace Ford
Iowa
Anne Shirley
Palace
Franchot Tone
Zane Grey
Margaret Sullavan
John Wayne
Rialto
Kiwanis
Ellis Park
Anne Shirley in Love Drama Opens at Iowa Tuesday
Anne Shirley stars in Chasing Yesterday as a French orphan who befriends an elderly savant, triggering suspense and a romance, at the Iowa starting Tuesday for three days. The program also features Gigolette with Adrine Ames and others, plus news events and film stills.
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Anne Shirley
Iowa
Miss Shirley
O. P. Heggie
Helen Westley
New York
Doubting Thomas at the Paramount and Cocoanut Grove
Will Rogers stars in Doubting Thomas at the Paramount to capacity crowds. The program includes a top short with Star Night in Cocoanut Grove featuring Bing Crosby Mae West Gary Cooper and Ted Fio Rito orchestra. Grantland Rice adds sports recap and Paramount news events conclude the evening.
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Thomas
Will Rogers
Billie Burke
Alison Skipworth
Sterling Holloway
Paramount Theater
Cocoanut Grove
Bing Crosby
Mae West
Gary Cooper
Ted Fio Rita
Rogers
Coconut Grove
Ted Fioritarchestra
Private Worlds at Paramount Books starts Friday
Paramount Theatre brings four star film Private Worlds with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer for a four day run starting Friday. Night Life of the Gods will be the second feature, a Laugh filled adaptation from Thorne Smith with a strong supporting cast.
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Paramount Books “Private
The World Moves On at the Palace with Franchot Tone
The Palace opens with The World Moves On starring Franchot Tone. The four generation family saga spans four nations and blends themes of hate, power, conflict, faith, love and ecstasy as an epic style love story unfolds through today and Tuesday.
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Franchot Tone
Noted Screen Duo Leads In New Film Show
Madeline Carroll and Franchot Tone headline a double bill with Reginald Denny Louise Dresser and Siegfried Rumann in a praised drama. The second feature Home on the Range, a Zane Grey outdoor romance, stars Jackie Coogan in his first grown up role with Randolph Scott and Evelyn Brent.
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Six Feet Two
Randolph Scott
Evelyn Brent
Couple To Be Married On Iowa Stage Friday
A local couple will wed on the Iowa theater stage next Friday night at 9 oclock with the audience as guests. The ceremony includes bridesmaids flower girls ring bearers and gifts for the couple. Oil For the Lamps of China starring Pat OBrien and Josephine Hutchinson will be the feature.
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Iowa Theater
China
Pat O'Brien
Josephine Hutchinson
Outstanding Pictures At Paramount for Early Showings
Paramount announces a string of upcoming films in Cedar Rapids. Will Rogers star vehicle Doubting Thomas leads early, followed by Private Worlds with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer and Night Life of the Gods with Lowell Sherman. The Mark of the Vampire features Lionel Barrymore Bela Lugosi and others, then No More Ladies with Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery.
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Paramount
Cedar Rapids
Will Rogers
Thomas
Claudette Colbert
Charles Boyer
Lowell Sherman
No More Ladies
Joan Crawford
Robert Montgomery
Franchot
Rialto Showcases The Good Fairy and The Texas Terror
The Good Fairy starring Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall opens at Rialto for three days from today with Frank Morgan Alan Hale June Clayworth and Eric Blore in support. The plot centers on a girl from an orphanage who becomes a movie usher and disrupts the lives of bankers lawyers and other men by her unconventional notions of happiness. The Texas Terror stars John Wayne as the second feature.
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Margaret Sullavan
Herbert Marshall
Rialto
Frank Morgan
Alan Hale
June Clayworth
Eric Blore
Ferenc Molnar
Helen Hayes
John Wayne
Western Film Program Ends With Thrilling Climax
The bill features Thrill after Thrill with one of the fastest, hair-raising climaxes in western pictures. Also shown are Comedy and Cats and the Fiddle completing the program.
Oil For Lamps Of China Comes To Iowa Friday
The drama Oil For the Lamps of China based on Alice Tisdale Hobart’s novel opens in Iowa Friday. Pat O’Brien leads as an American oil man striving for success and to bring light to China. supporting cast includes Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, John Eldredge, and Arthur Byron. A thirty minute Fish From Hell feature about big catches in southern waters also plays as added attraction.
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China
Iowa
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Pat O’brien
Josephine Hutchinson
Jean Muir
John Eldredge
Arthur Byron
Hell
Three Features At The Olympic Theater
Starting Sunday for four days the Olympic theater presents three films. Love In Morocco stars Rex Ingram and Rosita Garcia in a desert drama. I Believed In You features Rose mary Ames John Boles and Victor Jory with a tale of loyalty over ecstasy. His Greatest Gamble stars Richard Dix Dorothy Wilson Bruce Cabot and Erin O’Brien Moore along with News of the day.
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Rex Ingram
Rosita Garcia
Richard Dix
Dorothy Wilson
Bruce Cabot
Erin O'Brien
Moore
Olympic Theater
Morocco
Desert
Rosemary Ames
John Boles
Victor Jory
Erin O'Brien Moore
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Josephne Hutchinson
Virginia Bruce
Alice Brady
Harvey Stephens
Richard Arlen
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Iowa Bill
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Grand Hotel
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Coming Coliseum
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Fsmone
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Pereson
Lafayette Cafe
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Second Avenue
Joan Bennett
Helen Vinson
Joel McCrea
Thorne Smith
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Miss Colbert
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Larry Huston
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