Murder at the Vanities at Third Avenue theater review
A backstage murder mystery blends with a music revue in Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities. Victor McLaglen Jack Oakie provide comic detectives while Carl Brisson Kitty Carlisle lead in song numbers like Cocktails for Two and Where Do They Go. Duke Filington’s orchestra and a Betty Boop cartoon join the program.
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Paramount
Earl Carroll
Vanities
Third Avenue Theater
Victor ‘McLaglen
Jack Oakie
Carl Brisson
Kitty Carlisle
Duke Filington
Betty Boop
Grant Jand Rice
Paramount News
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Senator Sheppard Pushes Resolution To Repeal Prohibition
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas introduced a resolution in the Senate to repeal the Twenty-first Amendment ending national prohibition. A lifelong dry advocate, Sheppard called for a flexible amendment granting limited government powers over liquor while protecting dry states from a flood of liquor. He interrupted debate on the deficiency bill to present the measure, criticizing repeal conditions and citing a federal alcohol control statement that the nation is in a “fool’s paradise.”
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Washington
ULP
Morris Sheppard
Tex
Sheppard
Shep N
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Short Talks on Advertising 12 A World Without
Prepared by the Bureau of Research and Education Advertising Federation of America. The piece questions advertising’s role in daily life and imagines consequences if advertising vanished. It suggests radio, newspapers, and magazines rely on ad revenue and could face higher costs or political control without ads.
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Bureau of Research and Education, Advertising Federation of America
U.mails
Will Rogers on Mussolini Hitler and world leaders
Will Rogers jokes about dictaphone records of Mussolini and Hitler and their talks on France. He predicts Roosevelt meeting Mexican leader Calles as a plan to show Europeans who truly runs their countries.
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Ditor Gazette
Hollywood
Calif
Mussolinii
Hitler
France
Mussolini
Roosevelt
Plutarco Calles
Mexico
Will
Advertising’s Power to Elevate Goods and Living Standards
A 1934 Advertising Federation of America essay argues advertising keeps mass production affordable and quality high. It contends without ads, auto makers would struggle, foods would lose appeal, new inventions would languish, and chronic unemployment would rise as industrial progress stalls.
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Advertising Federation of America
Democratic Judicial Convention Call for 18th District Iowa
The Democratic District Central Committee calls the 18th Judicial District Convention for Cedar Rapids Linn County at 11 A M on July 21 1934. Delegates are apportioned Linn 21 Jones 5 Cedar 6, elected by county Democratic conventions. notices to be published in Cedar Rapids Gazette Anamosa Journal and Tipton Conservative.
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Iowa
Towa
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Jones County
Cedar County
Anamosa Journal
Tipton Conservative
Democratic District Central Committee
D. L. Morrissey
J. J Locker
Hansen
Cedarounty
Iowa Tax Rule Says State Liquor Stores Taxed
DES MOINES AP Assistant Attorney General Leroy Rader issued an opinion to the Iowa liquor control commission that sales of liquor by state stores will bear the 2 percent sales tax. The tax is on the consumer, not the state, making the state responsible for collecting it, per the ruling requested by Commissioner Bernard Manley as the stores prepare to open Tuesday.
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DES Moines
Leroy Rader
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Radeveld
Bernard Manley
Taylor Grazing Bill Sent To Conference
Washington report notes the Taylor grazing bill for federal regulation of grazing on the public domain moved to conference after House and Senate disagreed on amendments. Leaders expect swift resolution before adjournment to enable passage.
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Taylor
Washington
LLP
House
Senate
Roosevelt Names Iowa Postmasters in Nominations
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate Friday nominations for postmasters in several Iowa towns. Named are Allerton Tilda O Nye Edgewood Myrtle E Smith Fairfield Lawrence J Roth Lamont James Lowell Card Mc Gregor Frank G Huebsch Marble Rock Anna L Staudt Osage James G Casey Winthrop Ben R ne.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Iowa
Allerton
Tilda O. Nye
Edgewood
Myrtle E. Smith
Fairfield
Lawrence J. Roth
Lamont
James Lowell Card
McGregor
Frank G. Huebsch
Marble Rock
Anna .L. Staudt
Osage
James G. Casey
Winthrop
Ben R. Ne
Woman Believed Traveling on Northwestern Train
Report cites AP that Mrs. Dall departed Chicago at 10 30 a m Friday aboard a Northwestern train passing Cedar Rapids at 3 40 p m. Conductor and porters deny knowledge of her presence during a stop here. A blonde young woman is named in the fragment.
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Associated Press
Irkutsk City Amid Murders Noted In Historic Claim
A fragment describes a scene near a train with a girl resembling the President's daughter and asserts Irkutsk in Siberia as one of the world s worst cities. It claims about 600 murders occur annually despite a population under 120,000 and notes an average arrest rate of one in fifty murders with half the arrests followed by convictions.
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Sistie
Irkutsk
Siberia
Notice of sale to foreclose lien on Pontiac sedan
George Us Irwin doing business as Majestic Garage gives public notice that a 1928 Pontiac Special Sedan with Town license 57 18849 and motor 536944 will be sold at public sale on July 3 1934 at 10:00 AM at Majestic Garage corner Third Street and A Avenue Cedar Rapids Iowa. Proceeds apply to $116.44 storage and repair lien from January 5 1933, costs, and any excess to you.
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Ray Swan
Majestic
Third Street
A Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
George US
Irwin
Majestic Garage
Pacifist in the Picture Puzzle Likely Aims and Answers
A fragmented antique word puzzle lists clues and answers for both across and down entries. The jumble includes terms like wild animal track intention and various short definitions, ending with references to geography and tools, forming a maze of crosswords with missing clarity and partial phrases.
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Hiorizontal
Joe E Brown at Iowa shows proves 100 percent crowd pleaser
Joe E Brown fans will enjoy a full evening as Circus Clown delivers laughs against circus backdrops. Brown plays a father and son with a plot about a clumsy guardian turned troupe idol while other acts including Medbury travelogue Laughing with Medbury and Twenty Minutes at the World’s Fair provide support. Vincent Lopez and his orchestra headline the short features with Willie Whopper and Pathe news rounding out the bill.
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Joe E. Brown
Iowa
Joe
Papa
Happy
Patricia Ellis
John P. Medbury
Medbury
Vincent Lopez
Willie Whopper
Pathe News
D. E
Iowa synod May restrict field of colleges in Presbyterian church
Prof George W Bryant of Coe voices plan to limit college fields and create junior colleges at the Iowa synod meeting to be held in Red Oak June 18 21 The economy proposal to close colleges is denied with emphasis on cooperation among Coe Parsons Buena Vista Dubuque University Lenox Omaha Seminary and James Millikan plans for broader junior college roles by the synod leaders on the program for the gathering.
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Iowa Synod of the Presbyterian Church
Red Oak
George W. Bryant
Coe
Bryant
Parsons
Fairfield
Buena Vista
Storm Lake
Dubuque University of
National Guard Aid for Stratosphere Balloon Flight
Iowa National Guard offers assistance to National Geographic Society for a stratosphere observation balloon flight from June 25 to July 6. The guard will position units to guard the landing area and keep the balloon safe from curious crowds while J O Lagorge of the society requests protection. Adjutant General Charles Grahl said the office will stay in radio contact with the balloon during its Iowa flight.
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DES Moines
Iowa National Guard
National Geographic Society
Charles Grahl
Pupid City
Iowa
Grahl
National Guards
J. O. Lagorge
Judgment Given In Foreclosure Action Against Dinette
Issie A. Merrill and Fred Merrill won a $6,150 decree in a district court foreclosure action against A. L. Merrill. The chattel mortgage secured a $6,000 note dated Jan 20, 1933 for the Dinette Sandwich shop at 310 Third avenue SE. Judge A. B. Clark ordered immediate execution sale of the Dinette equipment. case was uncontested, decree filed one minute after petition.
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Issie A. Merrill
Fred Merrill
A. L. Merrill
Third Avenue SE
A. B. Clark
Feed Store Liquor Raid Lands Man in Jail
Ernest Crain aged 54 at 226 Second Street NW was arrested at 2 45 p m Friday in a liquor raid at Crain operated feed store at F avenue and Vernal street NW He pleaded not guilty before Judge A B Clark to maintaining a liquor nuisance and is held on 500 bond The raid team included Det Bailey Stanley and agents Mil ler and Taylor They reported a partly filled gallon can and several half pint bottles of alleged alcohol
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Ernest Crain
Second Street NW
Crain
F Avenue
Vernal Street NW
A. B. Clark
G. K. Thompson
James Bailey
Earl Stanley
Ed. L. Miller
R. H. Taylor
Sheriff notice of sale under special execution in Cedar Rapids
A sheriff’s notice from Linn County Iowa states a real estate levy to satisfy a December 4 1934 judgment for Earl Smith against Harry B Moore. The property is the north forty feet of lot 9 in Buchanan and Reeds Addition Cedar Rapids. The auction is set for June 18 1934 at 1100 AM in front of the courthouse with cash in hand, Roy Radebauch deputy and L M Silliman attorney.
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Kase
District Court
Linn County
Iowa
Earl Smith
Harry B. Moore
Buchanan
Reed
Cedar Rapids
Willl
Court House
Lots
County
Roy Radebauch
L. M. Silliman
Pippin Hears From Kevin Amid Mountain Dreaming
In a moonlit highland scene Pippin clings to memory and longing as she resists new romance while awaiting Kevin Malone. Dale Owens intrudes with teasing warmth, urging her to consider a future beyond grief, yet she clings to hope of Kevin’s return and receives a mysterious letter from him to Helena before a cliffhanger ending.
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Pippin
Kevin
Gregg
Bill
Marthe
Kevin Malone
Dale Owens
Dale
Tanyes
Jrock
Kate
Jonathan
Bil
Paramount Tonight Shows Little Miss Marker Preview
The Paramount theater will host a special post show preview of Shirley Temple’s Little Miss Marker after Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities. Fans attending the 9:00 pm performance can stay for the preview at no extra charge, with a 10:55 pm showing option for those who have already seen the prior show. The Davenport critic lauds Temple as a radiant heartwarming star in a tale of gambling mob tension and a child’s tender influence.
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Fparamount Theater
Earl Carroll
the Vanities
Little Miss Marker
Shirley Temple
Dorothy Dell
Adolphe Menjou
Paramount
Vanities
Davenport
Theatres Listings Show 1920s Film Lineup
At the theaters, Joe E Brown stars in The Circus Clown at theatre Yowa. Paramount presents Murder at the Vanities with Jack Oakie Victor McLagren and Kitty Carlisle. State features The Witching Hour with Sir Guy Standing John Haliday and Judith Allen. Rialto shows Keep Em Rolling with Walter Huston and Frances Dee and Cross Country Cruise with Lew Ayres and June Knight. Palace presents Carolina with Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore. Olympic screens Gun Justice with Ken Maynard and Lucky Dog with Chic Sale.
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Yowa
Joe E. Brown
Paramount
Fire kills seven thousand chicks at Griffith hatchery
Fulton Missouri seven thousand baby chicks die in hatchery fire cause undetermined and damage estimated at two thousand dollars. A separate note claims blubber assists whales in withstanding deep sea pressure.
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Fulton, Mo
Griffith Hatchery
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