Roberta at Iowa theater features famed trio and song
Glorification of dancing and singing drives the film Roberta starring Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne. Paris setting dresses the plot as it highlights the Big Three and a bustling musical revue with comedy and style.
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Roberta
Iowa
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Irene Dunne
Jerome Kern
Paris
Astaire
Rogers
Dunne
Blue Steele
Sully
Thomas
Coe College
Frankel
Bitter Sweet and All Men Enemies at the Olympic
The Olympic opens a four day program featuring Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet from the Ziegfeld New York and the drama All Men Are Enemies starring Hugh Williams Helen Twelvetrees Mona Barrie Herbert Mundin and Una O Connor. Cartoons and news complete the bill.
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Olympic Theater
Noel Coward
Ziegfeld Theater
New York
Hugh Williams
Helen Twelvetrees
Mona Barrie
Herbert Mundin
Una O'Connor
Hit and run study suggests fright drives motorists to flee
Milwaukee Chief of Police I G Laubenheimer concludes from a city study that drivers flee out of fright in hit and run incidents and that most who did stop would not have faced jail sentences.
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I G Laubenheimer
Milwaukee
One More Spring Opens at Paramount This Saturday
The Paramount brings Janet Gaynor Warner Baxter and Stepin Fetchit along with Rosemary Ames and Walter King for a four day run starting Saturday. The program includes the satirical One More Spring and the Zane Grey Rocky Mountain Mystery with Randolph Scott. Also features The March of Time news highlights.
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Janet Gaynor
Warner Baxter
Stepin Fetchit
Will Rogers
Rosemary Ames
Walter King
Paramount Theater
Robert Nathan
Rogers
David Harum
Judge Priest
Zane Grey
Randolph Scott
Chic Sale
Kathleen Burke
British Agent and The Crooked Circle Screened at Palace
Palace shows open with the powerful drama British Agent based on R H Bruce Lockhart and The Crooked Circle presented in the same program. The vivid tale unfolds amid the chaotic Russian revolution with strong patriotic themes.
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and “Crooked Circle
R H Bruce Lockhart
Little Jackie Heller On Town Stage Saturday
The Iowa theater hosts Little Jackie Heller, famed NBC radio star and Ben Bernie discovery, for a weekend engagement after a Chicago College Inn run. He headlines a program alongside four additional acts and the feature Living on Velvet starring Kay Francis Warren William and George Brent.
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Iowa Theater
Shirley Temple and Arliss Star in State Theater Features
Shirley Temple appears in Bright Eyes at the State theater with George Arliss in The Last Gentleman as the second feature. Bright Eyes follows Temple in a Los Angeles area airport and Pasadena home setting with James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Lois Wilson, Judith Allen, and others. Arliss delivers a lighter, rich performance in The Last Gentleman alongside Edna May Oliver and Janet Beecher in a story of an eccentric millionaire seeking a worthy heir.
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Shirley Temple
America
State Theater
George Arliss
David Butler
Los Angeles
Pasadena
James Dunn
Shirley
Jane Darwell
Lois Wilson
Judith Allen
Charles Sellon
Dorothy Christy
Jane Withers
Theodore von Eltz
House of Rothschild
Arliss
Edna May Oliver
Janet Beecher
Charlotte Henry
Ralph Morgan
Roberta Held Over at Iowa Town. Gold Diggers Next
The Irene Dunne Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical Roberta continues at the Town through Friday with Blue Steele and twenty entertainers and a Frankel fashion revue. Warner Bros plans Gold Diggers of 1935 starring Powell Menjou Stuart Brady with Busby Berkeley directing all story and spectacle.
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Cedar Rapids
Roberta
Irene Dunne
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Wil
Blue Steele
Frankel
Iowa
Warner Brothers
Dick Powell
Adolphe Menjou
Gloria Stuart
Alice Brady
Glenda Farrell
Hugh Herbert
Frank McHugh
Joe Cawthorn
Dorothy Dare
Grant Mitchell
Winifred Shaw
Busby Berkley
Broadway
al Jolson
Ruby Keeler
Paul Muni
Karen Morres
Delores del Rio
Robert Donat
Captain Blood
Owl
Pat O'Brien
Josephine Hutchinson
Edward G. Robinson
Bette Davis
Rialto Screen Double Feature Shows Ransom and Skies
The Rialto presents Million Dollar Ransom a Damon Runyon style tale with Phillips Holmes Mary Carlisle and Edward Arnold leading. Neath Arizona Skies stars John Wayne pursuing outlaws to rescue ward Nina amid a death battle finale over a river gorge with Sheila Terry. Broadway Brevities closes the bill with cats and the fiddle.
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Damon Runyon
Rialto
Phillips Holmes
Mary Carlisle
Edward Arnold
Arizona
John Wayne
Wayne
Nina
Sheila Terry
Bordertown and The Winning Ticket Headline Paramount Run
Paramount presents Bordertown with Paul Muni and Bette Davis and The Winning Ticket next week. Bordertown offers a stark tale of a border town nightclub proprietor's rise amid romance murder and wealth while The Winning Ticket delivers horse racing thrills with Leo Carillo Louise Fazenda and Ted Healy in a seventy two minute comedy with suspense.
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Paramount Theater
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Paramount
Paul Muni
Bette Davis
Margaret Lindsay
Eugene Pallette
Ted Healy
Claudette Colbert
Leo Carrillo
Louise Fazenda
Living On Velvet at Iowa with Kay Francis
Kay Francis stars in Living On Velvet a dramatic romance with Warren William and George Brent. Brent plays a daredevil whose fatal accident shapes his reckless acts, saved by William as the steady friend. The tale centers on three lives and a love triangle arriving this Saturday and Sunday with vaudeville on stage.
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Kay Francis
Warren William
George Brent
Brent
Rock of Gibraltar
Flirtation Walk cast and director items noted
The text cites a role holder infatuated with the aviator and sending Warren William to locate the incorrigible youth she marries despite family opposition. Domestic trials ensue as the unfit husband nearly ruins her life, climaxing in a fatal act. Frank Borzage directed Living on Velvet.
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Warren William
Frank Borzage
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Russia
Leslie Howard
Ben Lyon
Zasu Pitts
James Gleason
Irene Purcell
Palace
Silly Symphony
Paramount Souvenirs
Pathe News
Jesf
Madge Evans
W. C. Fields
Freddie Bartholomew
Starke
Amerika
ESS
Shaisne
Warlss
Zee Last, Gentleman
Edna Mae Oliver
Janit Beecher
Charlotte Henry Ralph Morgan
30Th Centar Producties
Jackie Heller
Mort
Singer Theater
Op’ Dunne
Fred Astair
Helen Westley
Victor Varconi
Claire Dooq
KO Radio
I Famous
Johnny Sully
Muriel Thomas
W C Fields
Maureen O’sullivan
Frank Lawton
Elizabeth Allan
Lionel Barrymore
Freddie Bartholomew Lewis Stone
Roland Young
Bareetra
George Cukor
Litle Womer
Mets Goltwys Meyer Prete
Voy
Olympic
Bordertown
Wally Lyons
Des Moines
Discovery
Ransom
Arizona Skies
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