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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1939
Page
14
Author’s note argues science guides moral decisions and social rights. It challenges conceit, education’s effect on race, and tracing ancestry, citing Seabury Osborn Lorimer and noting US records often lack family lineage. Copyright 1939.
Jimmie Fidler remarks on faded fame amid Hollywood swag at Filmville events. Once adored stars now draw amused pity as public perception shifts with time. He cites plastic surgery scars on Richard Arlen and notes Franchot Tone and Richard Carlson as unusually titled actors.
A collage of celebrity anecdotes and trivia about Oliver Cromwell, General Lee, Nelson Eddy, Lily Pons, Don Ameche, Tyrone Power, Annabella, and Gene Autry. The prose notes their careers, quirks, luck charms, and a chaotic early Hollywood morning near the Boulevard, with a copyright 1939 tag.
Theaters list shows Vernon and Irene Castle with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a March of Time segment. Paramount features Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in Dodge City. Palace presents Just Around the Corner with Shirley Temple and Charles Farrell and A Man to Remember with Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis. Rialto spotlights Gene Autry in Mexicali Rose and Jack Holt in Crime Takes a Holiday.
The April 28 Postal Bulletin announces upcoming transatlantic airmail service with a 30 cent rate per half ounce to Europe. First day covers should be sent to the New York postmaster for special cachet, with instructions to hold for the inaugural flight until hearings before the Civil Aeronautics Authority determine certificate approval.
A new farcical comedy My Dear Children by Catherine Turney and Jerry Harwin comes to the Iowa theater Friday May 5 with John Barrymore in the lead and Doris Dudley as Cordelia. The cast includes Tala Birell Philip Reed Dorothy McGuire Lois Hall and others in a lighthearted tale of a great lover who becomes a father and elopes with a munition maker's mistress.
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