Showboat Scheduled For Kiwanis Benefit Nights
The Kiwanis Showboat, an old time revue with a forty man cast, aims to raise funds for underprivileged children. It will run Tuesday through Thursday evenings at Cedar beneath the Hun Street, featuring a large stage, full orchestra, and bleacher seating for about 1,500. Proceeds support YMCA memberships and Camp Wapsie-Y activities, with Boy Scout Troop 9 sponsored by Kiwanis.
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Cedar Rapids
The Circus Clown With Joe E Brown Is Coming Friday
Joe E Brown stars in The Circus Clown coming Friday at the Town. The show features The Flying Codonas Picchianni troupe Mamie Ward and Hanneford troupe with midair stunts and a barnyard performer subplot. Brown woos Miss Ellis amid a drunken confrontation with Gordon Westcott and ends in a daring high‑flying conclusion.
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Joe E Brown
Miss Ellis
Gordon Westcott
Patricia
Kayoes Westcott
Now To Tell All Washed Through State Theater Debut
Mrs Arnold Rothstein presents Now I ll Tell at the State theater with Spencer Tracy as the star. Helen Twelvetrees plays Virginia, the wife who discovers her husband Murray Golden s infidelity as a secret romance unfolds through twenty years of New York life. Alice Faye portrays the glamorous mistress, rising to fame from George White Scandals.
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Vanities
Paramount Theater
Spencer Tracy
Alice Faye
Arnold Rothstein
State Theater
Robert Armstrong
Ann Sothern
Iowa Theater
Tracy
New York
Helen Twelvetrees
Virginia
Murray Golden
Golden
Rudy Vallee
George White
Murder at Vanities comes to Paramount for four day run
Carroll stage hit Murder at the Vanities becomes a Paramount screen production opening Friday for four days. The film blends musical acts with a murder mystery as eighteen performers from New York and Hollywood, including Carl Brisson Victor McLagley Kitty Carlisle Duke Ellington and Dorothy Stickney appear. A pair of murders unfolds amid dancing songs and a prominent jazz score by Ellington.
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Carroll
Victor McLagley
Jack Oakie
Kitty Carlisle
Duke Ellington
Dorothy Stickney
Gertrude Michael
Pal of Oakie
The Hell Cat Heads Double Bill At Iowa Theater
The Iowa theater opens a two film bill headlined by The Hell Cat starring Ann Sothern and Robert Armstrong with a riotous romantic comedy plot about a fiery social debutante and a devil may care reporter. In Love With Life stars Lila Lee Onslow Stevens Dickie Moore and Claude Gillingwater as lonely people guided to happiness. Also a cartoon titled Wild Cargo.
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Ann Sothern
Robert Armstrong
Picture
Lila Lee
Onslow Stevens
Dickie Moore
Claude Gillingwater
Laury
Diczle More Liso
Ruce
Luild
Rialto screens double bill By Candle Light and The Lucky Texan
A three film Rialto program features John Wayne in The Lucky Texan with Barbara Sheldon George Hayes Yakima Cannutt Earl Dwire and John Ince. Also showing By Candle Light a comedy drama with Nils Asther Esther Ralston Lawrence Grant Dorothy Revier in Vienna and Monte Carlo scenes. A Clark and McCoulough comedy with a band novelty completes the lineup.
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John Wayne
Paul Lukas
Elissa Landi
Rialto
Wayne
Jake Benson
Sharpers
Jake
Barbara Sheldon
George Hayes
Yakima Cannutt
Earl Dwire
John Ince
Gandle Light
Vienna
Monte Carlo
Nils Asther
Esther Ralaton
Lawrence Grant
Dorothy Revier
Clark and McCoullough
Three Features On Olympic's Program Beginning Today
The Olympic opens a triple bill including Son of Kong a monster filled sequel to King Kong with earthquake climax, Love Honor and Oh Baby a fast paced comedy with Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts, and The Vampire Bat a pseudo scientific thriller featuring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray in a tale of eternal life. A Silly Symphony short rounds out the program.
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Lionel Atwill
Fay Wray
Atwill
Love, Honor
Slim Summerville
Zasu Pitts
Vampire Bat” Lionell AT Will
Carolina at the Palace Stars Gaynor and Barrymore
Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore headline the Palace on a run through Wednesday in Carolina. The film adapts Paul Green's The House of Connelly with Henrietta Crosman and Robert Young, set amid tobacco fields and magnolia trees as a northern girl mends a decayed southern plantation family.
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Janet Gaynor
Lionel Barrymore
Henrietta Crosman
Robert Young
Carolina
Palace
Critics Laud As The Earth Turns As Free From Hokum
Movie critics hail As the Earth Turns as a honest depiction of American country life without hokum. The talkie opens a three day engagement at the Paramount theater on Tuesday and prompts speculation about Cedar Rapids audience reception.
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Iowa
Paramount Theater
Cedar Rapids
As The Earth Turns review tests public taste
Warner Bros adapts Gladys Hasty Carroll novel with Jean Muir and Donald Woods in a sincere ordinary life story. Public reaction from test cities appears satisfactory. Short subjects include George Jessell in Rambling Around Radio Row and a two reel musical comedy with Broadway dancers and singers.
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Warner Bros
Jean Muir
Donald Woods
Emily Lowry
William Janney
George Jessell
Broadway
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