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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1938
Page
3
Immie Fidler, W S Van Dyke, Norma Shearer, and other Hollywood figures feature in a wide ranging column. The piece notes party drama between lionlike stars and their wives, director speed versus sound delays on Marie Antoinette, Treacher building a peculiar house, Pat O Brien’s expanding home, and a De Mille test on voice appeal amid Warner Bros prison pictures. Bogart protests slated roles.
Invitations went out to about 400 Cedar Rapids doctors ministers teachers clubwomen and others for the New State theater preview of The Birth Of A Baby Wednesday at 815 p m The box office closes at 545 p m and the final showing of The Adventures of Marco Polo ends at 730 p m The center main floor section is reserved for guests and general public sales start at 815 p m
Tri-States Theater presents The Birth Of A Baby with maternal welfare approval. No companion feature is shown. short subjects chosen with care and ads approved by the American Committee on Maternal Welfare. Cedar Rapids patrons urged to attend from the start. show times advertised. No children admitted without parental accompaniment. written permission verified by phone with Ray Vernimont.
Ginger Rogers appears in the RKO film Vacvious Lady with James Stewart at the Iowa theater through Thursday. For a fight with Frances Mercer Rogers wore heavy leg guards under her gown to absorb kicks while Mercer remained unprotected in the slapping sequence. The film centers on a young professor and his nightclub bride returning to their staid town amid Victorian parents. The second feature Law of The Underworld stars Morris, Shirley, Cianelli, and Abel. In Choni China butter festivals feature monk artists shaping colored yak butter images for display.
Many suffer backaches from tired kidneys, the article claims. It urges readers to ask their druggist for Doan's Pills, touted as helping the kidneys flush out waste and relieve pain, with a history of use spanning over 40 years.
At Paramount audiences view Romance In The Dark starring Gladys Swarthout John Boles and John Barrymore alongside Nurse From Brooklyn featuring Sally Eilers and Paul Kelly. IOWA adds Vivacious Lady with Ginger Rogers James Stewart and The Law Of The Underworld with Chester Morris Anne Shirley. New State features The Adventures of Marco Polo with Gary Cooper Sigrid Gurie Basil Rathbone and Lets Make A Night Of It with Buddy Rogers June Clyde. Palace presents That Certain Woman with Bette Davis Henry Fonda and Hopalong Cassidy in Partners Of The Plains. Rialto offers The High Flyers with Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey and Courage Of The West. Strand features Varsity Show with Dick Powell Jane Withers and 45 Fathers.
A health ad urges a four day test to improve sleep by flushing kidneys and eliminating excess acids. It claims bladder irritation disrupts sleep and promotes the product Bakets available at May's Drug Store.
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