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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1934
Page
17
Local theaters feature Norma Shearer in Riptide at Paramount with Montgomery and Marshall and Katharine Hepburn in Spitfire at the Iowa starting this week. Major shows include This Man Is Mine at Paramount with Irene Dunne, and two features on the Iowa program beginning Tuesday, plus Wonder Bar and Torch Singer at other venues.
Bebe Daniels appears in The Song You Gave Me at the Majestic today through Tuesday, portraying Mitzi Hansen with two numbers sung. The second feature Lady for a Day stars May Robson and Warren William with a thrill filled program. Cartoon smiles and Paramount news complete the big show.
Jean Parker and Tom Brown head the Two Alone program at the Iowa theater Tuesday through Thursday. Alexander Kirkland Colleen Moore star in Social Register on the same bill. Katharine Hepburn in Spitfire opens Friday at Iowa. Edmund Lowe Sally Blane Victor McLaglen star in No More Women at State. Bebe Daniels in The Song You Gave Me plays Majestic through Tuesday. Norma Shearer leads Riptide at Paramount Easter Friday. Jeanette MacDonald Ramon Navarro sing in The Cat and the Fiddle at Paramount ending Monday night.
Two major attractions open for three days at the Rialto beginning today. The Fighting Caravan stars Gary Cooper Lily Damita Ernest Torrence Fred Kohler and Tully Marshall in a Western drama likened to The Covered Wagon. Goodbye Again offers a high powered romantic comedy cast led by Warren William Joan Blondell Genevieve Tobin and others with a musical review California Weather Cats and the Fiddle rounding out the program.
Park Avenue Theme In Film Coming To Paramount Tuesday Rose Albert Porter's play Chrysalis furnishes the story for All of Me with Fredric March Miriam Hopkins George Raft and Helen Mack. The drama follows a Park Avenue debutante who seeks love and learns its meaning through a tale of romance and sacrifice.
Irene Dunne stars in This Man Is Mine at the Iowa theater through Monday. The drama about marriage and infidelity features a bold cure by a young wife and mother and also includes Bert Lahr Hizzoner and other shorts with RKO News. The program lists cast with Ralph Bellamy Constance Cummings Kay Johnson Sidney Bilackmer and Charles Starrett.
Miss Colbert shines in Torch Singer, showing strong acting alongside a fine singing voice. The Palace feature highlights her compassionate opening as a mother and a cynical lead, with Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, and Lyda Roberts in the supporting cast. George O’Brien appears in a fast moving second feature.
Western drama based on the life of a frontier marshal around Tombstone Arizona. Characters, motives, and heroic acts are presented as actual events from early frontier days.
The international musical drama Wonder Bar tops upcoming programming at the Iowa theater with stars Kay Francis Al Jolson and Ricardo Cortez. Dolores Del Rio Dick Powell Henry Kolker Hal Le Roy Fifi D Orsay Merna Kennedy Ruth Donnelly Louise Fazenda and Busby Berkeley contribute.
Katharine Hepburn stars as Trigger Hicks in Spitfire at the Town Friday, a screen version of the Broadway hit Trigger. Reports praise her freshness, honesty, and emotional power in a role blending mysticism and fierce sentiment.
A Tuesday double feature opens with Two Alone starring Jean Parker and Tom Brown as star-crossed youths dealing with a harsh guardian. The second feature, Social Register, features Colleen Moore with Alexander Kirkland and Margaret Livingston in a light hearted satire of high society.
The Cherry Sisters engagement at the Iowa theater has been extended today after a Saturday announcement. They perform The Gypsy's Warning, an act historians say amused audiences since the 1890s and has seen repeated revivals with success.
Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen headline Paramounts No More Women at the State theater as deep sea divers amid rival salvage tugs. Sally Blane leads a tug owner role while Minna Gone Christian Ruth Tom Dugan and Frank Moran co star in this Delmer Daves Grant Leenhout story directed by Albert Rogell.
Norma Shearer returns to screens in Riptide at Paramount with Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall. The film casts Shearer as an American wife of a British aristocrat in a dramatic love triangle set against Cannes and St Moritz. Supporters include Keets Gallagher Ralph Forbes Lilyan Tashman and Florine McKinney.
Ramon Navarro and Miss MacDonald headline the Paramount feature The Cat and the Fiddle a musical romance on screen through Monday at the Paramount theater. Jeannette MacDonald and Navarro sing beautifully in a romance set amid glittering dancers with songs The Night Was Made for Love and She Didn't Say Yes. Also on the program is Mickey Mouse cartoon Playful Pluto by Walt Disney pleasing both children and adults.
James Dunn Boots Mallory and El Brendel headline the romantic adventure Handle With Care opening today at the Olympic theater. Buster Phelps and George Ernest have roles. David Butler wrote and directed. Also showing Blame the Woman with Adolphe Menjou and Benita Hume plus a finale cartoon.
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