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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1939
Page
8
Jane Wyman Kane Richmond Wally Vernon Joan Valerie and Edward Norris headline a companion feature. The film Game bling Ship presents a suspenseful tale centered on adventures beyond the twelve mile limit with Robert Wilcox and Helen Mack in leading roles.
John Garfield stars as a bold reporter in Blackwell's Island a tale of jail corruption and gang control. The film follows his mission to bring justice for a murdered police officer and expose brutal jail conditions at New York's Blackwell's Island with co stars Rose mary Lane Stanley Fields Victor Jory and Dick Purcell. The co feature Almost a Gentleman with James Ellison and Helen Wood adds a subplot of a man seeking to regain a lost legal career aided by Ace the wonder dog.
Dorothy Lamour headlines a romantic tale of a Broadway star who flees fame to seek true love aboard a struggling showboat. Captain Lloyd Nolan provides a hard boiled, protective presence as he offers her a singing job and a chance at genuine affection.
Fredric March and Virginia Bruce star in There Goes My Heart a gay comedy romance at the Paramount with Patsy Kelly and Alan Mowbray in key supporting roles. The program also includes Pardon Our Nerve from Twentieth Century Fox with Michael Whalen and Lynn Bari.
Nolan falls for Miss Lamour aboard a showboat while amid river adventures. Maxine Sullivan belts Loch Lomond Dark Eyes St Louis Blues. Cast includes Tito Guitar Jerome Cowan Jessie Ralph William Frawley Mary Parker Cliff Nazero The King's Men Matty Malneck and his orchestra. Companion feature Dis barred stars Gail Patrick as a young lawyer entangled with a disbarred mouthpiece in an underworld drama.
Woodcock rode long on clerical errands then walked to the meeting exhausted from the ride. After a busy night he headed home with cash from the collections in his pockets, intending to deposit it the next morning as usual, through dark hedgerows and timber.
Cleveland dispatch notes Walter Zempke volunteer fire chief and barber for a Brooklyn village. He jokes he has been called only once during a shop shave and rushed to a fire, finding the chair empty. He shows readiness despite his day job as a barber.
Tommy Tucker and his orchestra will perform at Danceland Thursday night with dancing from 9 to 1. Tucker has appeared on national networks and on George Jessel's radio show. Amy Arnell will sing for the audience. Tucker recently played for the University of Iowa Mecca ball and pleased the students.
Deanna Durbin appears in That Certain Age at the Rialto today through Tuesday with Jackie Cooper Melvyn Douglas Irene Rich John Halladay and Nancy Carroll in supporting roles Roy Rogers stars in Rough Riders Roundup the Lone Ranger fourth chapter and a comedy plus Cats and the Fiddle complete the bill.
Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer headline the film Love Affair at the Iowa Theatre. The romantic drama centers on a shipbound New York voyage as a spark of enduring affection arises between two seasoned lovers who have never loved before.
The roman tic drama Love Affair stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and is showing at the Iowa theater. The listing notes the film alongside other current engagements in town.
A casual meeting between a famous European playboy and a bold pair brings a momentous decision to wed despite past betrothals. Miss Dunne suffers a serious accident just before the rendezvous as Jover and his companion face a perilous underworld net. A reporter and his sweetheart confront crime in Twelve Crowded Hours.
In 1854 the Rev Isaac Woodcock, rector of Beverley in Yorkshire, travels between remote parishes with charity money. He cites a Bible verse about angels guarding the fearful as he faces risk from lawless men. A village meeting that night brings events testing his belief in protection.
The melodrama Tail Spin at the State theater features Alice Faye Nancy Kelly and Constance Bennett as three courageous women aviators facing peril and thrilling escapes in a Hollywood first focused on sky women. Joan Davis and Charles Farrell co star in the supporting cast.
Joan Crawford stars in The Ice Follies of 1939 at the Paramount theater with James Stewart Lew Ayres and Lewis Stone. The musical drama follows Mary McKay a singing skater rising to fame while her husband Jimmie Stewart is left behind before they are reunited.
The Palace presents the technicolor aviation spectacle Men with Wings narrating mankind s conquest of the air from the Wright Brothers to famous flights with Fred MacMurray Ray Milland and Louise Campbell as three aviation pioneers. The second feature Down on the Farm stars the Jones Family in one of their funniest adventures to date.
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