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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1938
Page
14
A young woman fidelity to a gunman leads to a prison camp drama at Paramount. Shirley Ross stars opposite Lloyd Nolan with John Howard as a crusading doctor and Porter Hall as a corrupt official. Also features Bert Lahr comedy and Betty Boop cartoon.
At the Iowa theater next Friday the picture Romance On The Run will bring comedy as Donald Woods and Patricia Ellis play a private investigator tracking a jewel thief. A $100000 necklace called the Czarina's Tears drives the plot with a $10000 fee at stake before a fake return tests the investigator. Supporting roles feature Grace Bradley Craig Reynolds Edward Brophy Leon Weaver and Andrew Tombes. The second feature Mystery House stars Ann Sheridan and Dick Purcell in a Detec tive tale from Mignon Eberhart with Lance O Leary and co stars Anne Nagel William Hopper Anthony Averill Hugh O Connell.
A 1940s film salute titled Yellow Jack depicts five scientists battling yellow fever in Cuba. The Washington commission uncovers the role of a Stegomya mosquito and uses volunteers to test theories, with Robert Montgomery heading a cast that includes Virginia Bruce and Lewis Stone.
Robert Young Simone Simon and Don Ameche lead Josette at the Paramount with Bert Lahr and Joan Davis also in the cast. My Old Kentucky Home arrives in Iowa Tuesday starring Grant Richards and Evelyn Venable. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper appear in Treasure Island opening at the New State Wednesday. Lloyd Nolan and Shirley Ross co star in Prison Farm coming to the Paramount Tuesday. Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux headline Mayerling now showing on the lawn. David Copperfield opens at the New State Wednesday with W. C. Fields and Freddie Bartholomew.
Rialto opens with the mystery thriller Under Suspicion starring Jack Holt and Katherine DeMille supported by Luis Iberni Rosalind Keith and Esther Muir. A millionaire invites would be killers to a mountain lodge to stage traps amid an assassination plot. Buck Jones features Boss of Lonely Valley. Lone Ranger tenth chapter. Also Cats and the Fiddle and a comedy.
At the Paramount theater, Don Ameche, Simone Simon and Robert Young star in Josette a gay comedy love story about two young men trying to shield their father from a showgirl only to fall for her themselves. The film promises light frothy humor and romantic intrigue.
Native women in parts of British Guiana use diamond grating boards to mine and process rough diamonds. They pan rough stones from streams and embed them in wax on a wood slab, a daily bread technique observed in local practice.
Due to hundreds of requests the New State theater announces a one week return showing of two hit pictures. David Copperfield stars Freddie Bartholomew and W C Fields with a stellar cast including Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan. Treasure Island features Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins.
Sonja Henie headlines the Palace double feature in Happy Landing, with Don Ameche returning as her co star and cast also featuring Ethel Merman Cesar Romero and Jean Hersholt. The second film London By Night stars George Murphy and Rita Johnson as a romantic mystery.
Evelyn Venable and Grant Richards star in My Old Kentucky Home showing at the Iowa theater Tuesday through Thursday. The bluegrass tale follows a noble family, a daughter promised to a wealthy rival, and a scandal that derails the romance with the Hall Johnson choir performing Foster melodies.
The piece lists celebrities and their food taboos including Carole Lombard avoiding tomatoes since True Confession, Clark Gable disliking clam juice, Louis Hayward avoiding strawberry tarts, Claudette Colbert detesting eggplant, Gary Cooper avoiding sand dabs, Una Merkel hating sweet potatoes, Deanna Durbin disliking certain cakes, Fredric March hating avocados, Fred Astaire avoiding corn, Robert Taylor eating corn off the cob, MacMurray hating carrots, Ginger Rogers fearing onions, and Bob Burns loving lobster but lobster a la king not liking him.
Strand theater presents a triple bill today and tomorrow with Wheeler and Woolsey in High Flyers featuring Lupe Velez amid airplanes and nonsense. Tom Brown and Lewis Stone star in The Man Who Cried Wolf, an unusual mystery. Charlie McCarthy appears in Pure Feud as an added attraction.
Billroy's Comedians bring The greatest show on earth for the money to Cedar Park in Cedar Rapids on Friday night June 24. The blue and white tent venue features Mariquette, the Shockley Twins, King and Roche, and a dozen other revue and vaudeville acts. Popular prices apply. ladies with one paid adult ticket enter free. Doors open 7:15 p.m. Overture 7:30, show 8:15. Free parking available.
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