Sylvia Sydney to Lead in Winterset Film Version
Sylvia Sidney will star as Burgess Meredith’s role in the Warner Brothers project of Winterset directed by Al Santell with Lionel Barrymore possibly in the stage role, while Edward G Robinson is eyed for The Man Behind and Dolores Del Rio to headline Continental for Columbia. Additional items note John Boles’ first starring under RKO in Cuban Cavalier and news on Benita Hume’s Versailles contract situation and other Hollywood movements.
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Los Angeles
Sylvia Sidney
London
Gaumont
Lionel Barrymore
Richard Bennett
Edward G. Robinson
Dame Rumor
van Gogh
Beethoven
Danton
Hal Wallis
Warner Brothers
Europe
New York “Mirror
Eddie
Dolores del Rio
Columbia Pictures
Dolores
Edward Chodorov
du Barry
Hans Kraly
Macaulay
Melvyn Douglas
John Boles
RKO
John
Garcia
Hollywood
Binnie Barnes
Big
Jeanette MacDonald
Gladys Searle
Charlie Cooper
Gary
Daniel Frohman
el Capitan
Jack Robbins
Bill Goetz
Darryl Zanuck
Oranto Barrage
Twentieth Century-Fox
Eddie Selzer
Ed Calligan
Death Valley Scotty
New York
Milton Berle
Bing Crosby
Seattle
Vancouver
Honolulu
Walter Huston
Arrowhead Springs
The Theaters Iowa Chester Morris and Margot Grahame
The Iowa listings highlight Chester Morris and Margot Grahame in Counterfeit by Owen Davis Jr. and Louis Latimer in Bunker Bean. Paramount shows The Big Noise with Guy Kibbee and a Joe Louis versus Max Schmeling fight. Other venues present The Walking Dead with Boris Karloff and Ricardo Cortez, Palm Springs features Frances Langford and Smith Ballew.
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Iowa
Chester Morris
Margot Grahame
Owen Davis, Jr
Louis Latimer
Bunker Bean
Paramount
Guy Kibbee
Joe Louis
Max Schmeling
Boris Karloff
Ricardo Cortez
Marguerite Churchill
Walking Dead
Frances Langford
Smith Ballew
Palm Springs
Palace
Riff Raff
Jean Harlow
Spencer Tracy
Nino Martini
Schumann Heink
Genevieve Tobin
Rialto
Joan Blondell
Glenda Farrell
Bob Steele
Jane Withers
John McGuire
Death and Grace at Heaven's Gate and a Bridge Aside
A poem fragment reflects on wealth, virtue, and loss with lines about valuing life, playing bridge with Grace, and the idea that death levels riches. It imagines both a poor man and a rich man dying by the same bell, indistinguishable at Heaven's gate.
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Heaven’s Gate
Ten to Twenty Years Ago In The Gazette
Jesse Brundage and R. D. Herndon burned when workmen struck live electric cables on North Fourth street near B Avenue feeding from the Iowa Railway and Light power house to the Quaker Oats. Harold Murrel, famed Washington high athlete, named to West Point by a Minnesota congressman after starring for Minnesota University last year. Mr and Mrs Walter L Cherry and children sail from New York to Europe. Joseph J Hawthorn, ex Sinclair Packing, visits Cedar Rapids after twenty years away.
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Jesse Brundage
R. D. Herndon
North Fourth Street
B Avenue
Iowa Railway and Light Corporation
Harold Murrel
Washington High School
West Point
Minnesota
Minnesota University
Walter L. Cherry
Virginia
Isabel
Walter, Jr
New York City
Europe
Joseph J. Hawthorn
Sinclair Packing Company
Cedar Rapids
Women Set for Summer Study In Chicago and Evanston
Miss Henrietta Franks and her niece Helen Rhodes departed for Chicago to join the Chicago Normal school of Physical Education for a summer course. Miss Alice Inskeep, public schools music supervisor, travels to Evanston to teach at Northwestern University’s American Institute of Normal Methods. Dr. D R Hindman of Marion becomes medical director of the Iowa G A R at Marshalltown encampment. Miss Grace Shields heads to Kent, Ohio to teach six weeks at the Ohio Normal school.
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Henrietta Franks
Helen Rhodes
Chicago
Chicago Normal School of Physical Education
Alice Inskeep
Evanston
American Institute of Normal Methods
Northwestern University
D. R. Hindman
Marion
Iowa G. A. R
Golden
Marshalltown
Grace Shields
Kent, O
Ohio Normal School
Local Society Notes and Business Openings
Miss Henrietta Boetcher returns from a two month visit in Butte Montana. Miss Adeline Montillon and Nellie Fuhrmeister depart for an extended western trip lasting about two months. Claude Saner, Cedar Rapids native, plans to study in Paris for several years under the DeReszkes. E G Sylvester and H L Nehls form a partnership and open a real estate loan and insurance office.
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Henrietta Boetcher
Butte
Mont
Adeline Montillon
Nellie Fuhrmeister
Claude Saner
Cedar Rapids
Paris
DeReszkes
E. G. Sylvester
H. L. Nehls
Democrats Rally Across Linn County on Democratic Day
Linn county Democrats observe Democratic day in Cedar Rapids with a county convention at 11 a.m. in the courthouse and an evening rally at 7 30 at the Roosevelt hotel. Luther A Fuhrmeister named local chairman as preparations aim for large attendance. Attendees will hear President Roosevelt's acceptance speech.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Luther A. Fuhrmeister
Roosevelt
Nominators’ Club
New Ground Synopsis Of Anne And Forbes Boarding House
Anne Audinand breaks free from her encasement as her bankrupt father forces a path toward independence with Steven Forbes. Star pyan, a young taxi driver and Halsey’s son, faces jealousy and danger as he and Anne, Parker, and Sarah start a Florida boarding house after being left penniless. Star plans a new future with Hilda while Anne confronts love, loyalty, and a painful betrayal as March dawns and a marriage to Ellery Richy seems imminent.
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Anne Audinand
Steven Forbes
Sey
Steven
Star Pyan
Star
Halsey
Anne
Parker
Sarah
Butler
Cook
Florida
Hattie Moore
Nita
He Richy
Judie Krebbs
Krebbs
Hilda
Maudie
Sterner
Steve
Mr. Forbes
Ellery Richy
Sea View House
Mr. Richy
Forbes
Mantle
Hattie
Dr Harold Schory Receives Honorary Doctor of Science
Dr Harold F Schory long time head of speech and dramatics at Western Illinois State Teachers College Macomb Illinois and former Coe College professor was awarded Capitol College award of honorary doctor of science in speech in Columbus Ohio He originated the official scoring system for national speech contests authored plays poems and readings and has been part of the University of Iowa graduate speech school broadcasting Our Golden Legacy on WSUI.
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Harold F. Schory
Western Illinois State Teachers College
Macomb
Ill
Coe College
Capitol College of Oratory and Music
Columbus
Illinois State High School Music and Literary Association
Graduate School of Speech
The
University of Iowa
WSUI
Bicycle rider fined for disorderly conduct in Chicago
Chicago police arrested Max Small aged 32 for riding a bicycle across lawns bushes and flower beds. Lacking a statute for riding while intoxicated the judge fined him 25 dollars plus costs for disorderly conduct.
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Chicago
Max Small
Max
Bonus drives man to tragedy in Ledgewood NJ
Reginald Twilley, who received a $600 bonus last week, married on Saturday and killed himself with a shotgun Monday. A note expressed fear of going crazy.
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Ledgewood
N. J
Reginald Twilley
Lemke Accused as Stooge for Landon by Browder
William Lemke, union party presidential candidate, is labeled a stooge for Alfred Landon by Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party U S A. Browder claims Lemke was placed in the race by Father Coughlin to weaken Roosevelt and aid Landon. Browder asserts Hearst-backed figures shaped the platform, while noting the Communist ticket plans to withdraw where farmer labor runs. The party’s national convention is set to name Browder as candidate with James W. Ford as running mate.
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New York
William Lemke
Union Party
Alfred M. Landon
Charles E. Coughlin
Roosevelt
Landon
Earl Browder
Communist Party U. S. A
Alfred E. Smith
Liberty League
Browder
United Press
London
Knox
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
America
Europe
Communist Party
James W. Ford
William Z. Foster
Union
Farmer Labor
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Green Pastures
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Albuquerque
Diamond Jim
Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar III
Metropolitan Opera
Manhattan
United Artists
Luise Rainer
Virginia Bruce
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Harriet Hoctor
Circus Ballet
State Theater
North Western Union Pacific
Wes
Quara
Yelsankel
W. Ry
Onion Pacific
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First Ave
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Equitable
Des Moines
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Union Pacific
Ulead
Cedar Park
Edgar A. Guest
Grace
Eve Greiek
Haas
Brand
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Wss
Owen Davis
Robert McWade
Louise Latimer
Erancis White Angel
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Vati
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Amuck
Bonus
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Lemke
Louis Schmeling
Uhlan
Romance
Louis Pasteur
Paul Mamuni
Sothern
Girl Friend
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