Girls Band to Head Iowa Show at Iowa Theater
A three day engagement opens Friday at the Iowa theater with The Ingenues 17 piece girls band as headliners in vaudeville. The act has 200 instruments total and critics hail it as the best girl band on tour. Also in the program are The Four Flushers Anything For a Laugh Lilian Bernard Flo Henry and an unusual fan act. The Circus Queen Murder features Josie La Tour an aerialist whose death mystery unfolds as Adolphe Menjou Greta Nissen and Donald Cook lead the cast with news by Graham McNamee and featurettes.
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Iowa
Four Flushers
Lilian Bernard
Flo Henry
Josie la Tour
Adolphe Menjou
Greta Nissen
Donald Cook
Graham McNamee
10-20-30 Years Ago In The Gazette May 11 1923
The Town division of the Travelers Protective association opened its annual session in Cedar Rapids with 300 attendees. Dr Franklin E Brooke, former Leander Clark College president and Cedar Rapids pastor, died in a Des Moines hospital. Public notices describe auto accident awareness signs to be posted at injury sites. Local incidents include Louis Stein injured by a fall, Margaret Powell injured in a car collision, and Bernard McGuire breaking an arm cleaning swallow nests.
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Travelers Protective Association
Franklin E Brooke
Leander Clark College
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Louis Stein
North Western Stone Quarry
Stein
Margaret Powell
Bernard McGuire
Marion
Theaters Schedule Iowa Glorious Swanson and More
Iowa screenings show Gloria Swanson in Perfect Understanding at Paramount with Lionel Barrymore in Sweepings and State presents Afraid to Talk starring Eric Linden and Sidney Fox. Rialto features Ginger Rogers in The Thirteenth Guest. Palace offers Destination Unknown with Pat O'Brien and Betty Compson. Olympic presents Strange Justice with Reginald Denny and Young Blood with Bob Steele.
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Iowa
Gloria Swanson
Paramount
Lionel Barrymore
State
Eric Linden
Sidney Fox
Rialto
Ginger Rogers
Palace
Pat O’brien
Betty Compson
Installations and Infrastructure Plans Highlight City News
Sermon announces Rev John Van de Erve installation as pastor at South Galena Presbyterian church. North Western Railroad erects a large filter plant at Beverly. Cedar Rapids Iowa City and Southern interurban plans a Cedar River bridge at Fourth Avenue on a single track without overhead work.
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John van de Erve
South Galena’ Presbyterian Church
North Western Railroad Company
Beverly
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City and Southern Interurban Company
Cedar River
Fourth Avenue
Forty Property Owners Protest 1933 Assessments
About forty property owners objected to their 1933 assessments as the city council met as a board of review. City assessor Dom Felereisen cited 21,996 total pieces of property, with 11,454 individual taxpayers on the rolls, and noted annexations increased Cedar Rapids to 28.11 square miles. Hearings began May 1, daily 2 to 4 p.m., through month’s end.
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Dom Felereisen
Feiereisen
Felereisen
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Teachers Oppose Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment
The Cedar Rapids Teachers Association at a recent meeting declared itself against repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Resolutions pledged faithful action in delegate elections and urged patronage of non alcohol selling businesses. A copy went to every Cedar Rapids public school teacher. Amber marriage notice follows.
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Cedar Rapids
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Bob Steele
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Mitzi Green
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America
Radios Lasarite
Comediennes
Lillian Bernard
Liberty Magazine
Willie Willis
Iowa City
University of Jews
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Atkinson
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Danceland
Harold Elston
Gents
Procen
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Tulsa
Okla
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Teachers’ Association
Amber
Anna Marie Wennikamp
Henry Wennikamp
Albert White
Charles White
Ely
Otto
Betty Boop
Tane Greys
Mysterious Rider
Kent Taylor
Andrew Irving Pichel
Gail Patrick
Warren Nyver
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Joseph Jandl
Linn County, Iowa
Emma Jandl Vavra
John Hrantk
Cedar Rapids Airport
Frank Whitney
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