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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1941
Page
14
Public school consultants report brunettes more likely to land jobs than blondes with chain stores preferring darker hair. They also cite research that students study better when choosing their own plans with guidance. Churchill and Goldsmith anecdotes illustrate genius often outgrows teachers.
Hollywood gossip notes Barbara Stanwyck’s surge with The Lady Eve rave reviews and Meet John Doe ahead. Warners eye The Fortunes of Mamie Q with Lester Cohen writing, about an ambitious girl by the stockyard. MGM buys Du Barry Was a Lady for Ann Sothern at $80,000.
Musicals and stars shape film plans as Metro buys Louisianas and Panama Hattie sits with Ann Sothern. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne consider a screen version of There Shall Be No Night. Becketstein heiress Karen Vern to star in Journey From Danger with scripts by Rosson.
Blanche Yurka courted Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls with fan letters. Gloria Jean hopes to wear her first formal dress to a mothers dinner with Freddy Bartholomew and Jane Withers. Pat Fitzmaurice rares about, while Edgar Bergen plans a concert tour with Charlie. Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin appear at Lunt-Fontanne. Gloria Dickinson sported a diamond ring from Ralph Murphy as wedding plans loom. Nazareth orphans receive support.
The column notes Abbott and Costello at Ciro's, Somerset Maugham taking the Union Pacific streamliner to New York, and a weekend pairing of Helen Gilbert with Vic Orsatti at the Scheherazade. Willis Hunt Jr. dines with Martha O Driscoll after a reunion with Carole Landis. Alice Faye and John Conti party at the Club Car. Countess di Frasso sails to New York for a month with brother Bert Taylor. Phillis Ruth postpones her eastward wedding plans with Bert Wheeler.
A fragment notes the unfinished "Caught in the Draft" picture, the Diamond Horse shoe ball at Moramba ran on schedule, and the event is described as a gala fair. It mentions the Richard Carlsons building a new home in the valley in anticipation of a June blessed event.
At the theaters in Iowa Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan star in Back Street alongside Richard Carlson and Frank McHugh while Meet Boston Blackie features Chester Morris Rochelle Hudson. Craemer's presents last full movie program at 410 StyJe with shows at 7 and 9 p.m. Paramount screens Mickey Rooney in Andy Hardy's Private Secretary with Lewis Stone Fay Holden Ann Rutherford Kathryn Grayson The Wild Man of Borneo with Frank Morgan Billie Burke and Donald Meek. Buck Privates with Abbott and Costello and the An-
The listing details several films playing at local theaters including Drews Sisters Willam Boyd and Russell Hayden in Doomed Cara van at Palace along with Don Ameche and Betty Grable in Now Argentine Way. Also showing The Fargo Kid with Tim Holt at Palace and Black Diamonds with Richard Arlen at Rialto. Strand features Road to Singapore with Bing Crosby Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour and Phantom Raiders with Walter Pidgeon and Florence Rice. Marion lists Hud with Paul Muni and Street of Memories with Guy Kibbee.
An old health ad promotes a 85 cent package of Gold Medal Haarlem capsules to flush poisons and acid from kidneys and relieve bladder irritations. It lists symptoms like burning, backache, and cramps and urges to refuse substitutes for the original product.
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