Adventures of Robin Hood in Color Premieres at Iowa
Warner Brothers technicolor production The Adventures of Robin Hood opens at the Iowa theater next Friday. Errol Flynn stars as Robin Hood with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian in a tale of jousts battles and the famed outlaw’s siege of Nottingham. The film includes a March of Time reel.
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Robin Hood
Iowa
Sherwood Forest
Robin
Warner Brother
Olivia DeHavilland
Maid Marian
Nottingham Castle
Merry Men
Varsity Show at Strand with 45 Fathers double bill
The Strand screens Varsity Show with Jane Withers comedy 45 Fathers. Cast includes Dick Powell Fred Waring Rosemary Lane Ted Healy Johnny Davis and Walter Catlett. Jane Withers stars in 45 Fathers as guardian drama after her father leaves a club as her guardians. A color cartoon is also shown.
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Strand Theater
Jane Withers
Dick Powell
Fred Waring
Rosemary Lane
Ted Healy
Johnny Davis
Walter Catlett
Adventures of Marco Polo dazzles New State screen
Gary Cooper stars as a swashbuckling traveler who opens major trade routes in a lavish Samuel Goldwyn epic. Sigrid Gurie shines in a pairing with a lively companion feature Let's Make a Night of It starring Buddy Rogers June Clyde and Claire Luce.
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New State Theater
Samuel Goldwyn
Marco Polo
Gary Cooper
Europe
Asia
Kublai Khan
Sigrid Gurie
Buddy Rogers
June Clyde
Claire Luce
Romance in the Dark at Paramount with Swarthout Boles Barrymore
A frolicsome continental comedy arrives at the Paramount. Gladys Swarthout stars with John Boles and John Barrymore as a housemaid who pretends to be a Persian princess to win musical fame and the singer she loves. Her efforts to interest Budapest's favorite singer end in comic misfires.
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Paramount Theater
Gladys Swarthout
John Boles
John Barrymore
Miss Swarthout
Budapest
Boles
Nurse From Brooklyn Leads to Dramatic Stage Deception
A rival uses a fake Persian princess ruse to divert attention from Claire Dodd as Barrymore pursues both women. Miss Swarthout is exposed as a fraud mid performance, climaxing the tale. Nurse From Brooklyn features Sally Eilers Paul Kelly and Larry Blake.
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Barrymore
Claire Dodd
Boles
Miss Swarthout
Brooklyn
Sally Eilers
Paul Kelly
Larry Blake
Wheeler and Woolsey in The High Flyers Rialto Feature
Comedians Wheeler and Woolsey star in The High Flyers at Rialto today through Tuesday. The plot follows Jack Carson who hires the duo to recover a smuggled jewels package from a stolen plane. Lupe Velez Marjorie Lord and others co star in the comedy.
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Wheeler and Woolsey
Rialto
Jack Carson
Lupe Velez
Marjorie Lord
Margret Dumont
Charles Judels
Bob Baker
Cats
Fiddle
Ted Weems to perform at Danceland Thursday night
Ted Weems and his orchestra will play at Danceland Thursday night with dancing from 9 to 1. The band arrives from an engagement at the Trianon ballroom in Chicago where its music was a regular Mutual network feature.
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Ted Weems
Danceland
Trianon Ballroom
Chicago
Mutual
Ginger Rogers Stars in Vivacious Lady at Iowa Theater
Ginger Rogers headlines the comedy Vivacious Lady with James Stewart as her college professor husband in a tale set largely in a New York state university town. The couple's secret marriage tests their homes and nerves as the president father weighs in.
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Ginger Rogers
James Stewart
Iowa Theater
Upstate
New York
Chester Morris
Anne Shirley
Richard Bond
Morris
Doctor Rhythm at the Paramount theater with Bing Crosby
The Paramount presents Doctor Rhythm a carnival of croon and mirth starring Bing Crosby as a medic detective and Beatrice Lillie as a London satirist. Crosby guards Miss Lillie against gangsters in a plot surrounding Miss Lillie and her niece Mary Carlisle with Miracle Money from Crime Doesn’t Pay and a Paramount News segment.
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Doctor Rhythm
Paramount Theater
Bing Crosby
Medico
Beatrice Lillie
London
Bing
Miss Lillie
New York
Mary Carlisle
Paramount News
Birth Of A Baby Shown At New State Cedar Rapids
The Birth of a Baby will be shown at 7 45 p m on Wednesday May 18 at the New State theater in Cedar Rapids manager Ray Wernimont said The Tri States Theater corporation presents the film in Iowa cities with approval from Dr Walter L Bierring Iowa health commissioner The plan is to show the film alone without other features and with parental consent for minors to attend if appropriate
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New State Theater
Cedar Rapids
Ray Vernimont
American Committee On Maternal Welfare
Walter L. Bierring
Iowa Commissioner of Health
Iowa Medical Society
Tri- States Theater Corporation
Iowa
Des Moines
Sioux City
Waterloo
Davenport
Ottumwa
Newton
Wernimont
G. Ralph Branton
Tri-States Theater Corporation
Bette Davis Stars in That Certain Woman at Palace
Bette Davis headlines That Certain Woman at the Palace a widow of a slain gangster wins respect and love with Henry Fonda as the lead. Cast includes Jan Hunter Anita Louise and Donald Crisp. Also shown Partners of the Plains with Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd and new co stars Gwen Gaze Harvey Clark. A color cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves runs as a special attraction.
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Bette Davis
Palace Theater Today
Henry Fonda
Jan Hunter
Anita Louise
Donald Crisp
William Boyd
Gwen Gaze
Harvey Clark
Popeye the Sailor
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