The Great American Broadcast Opens at Paramount This Week
A feature titled The Great American Broadcast stars Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie and Cesar Romero and features songs by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. Also on screen The Great Dictator stars Charlie Chaplin with Paulette Goddard and a supporting cast. Paramount cartoons Mrs Lady Bug and a newsreel accompany.
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Paramount Theater
Alice Fay
John Payne
Jack Oakie
Cesar Romero
Mack Gordon
Harry Warren
Nicholas Brothers
Wiere Brothers
Mary Beth Hughes
Kenneth Macgowan
Archie Mayo
Don Ettinger
Edwin Blum
Robert Ellis
Helen Logan
Hermes Pan
Paramount
Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie
Paulette Goddard
Billy Gilbert
Henry Daniels
Maurice Boscovich
Emma Dunn
Mrs. Lady Bug
Paramount News
Sound Film Of Catholic Mass Coming To State
A rare sound motion picture of the Catholic mass titled The Eternal Gift will show at the State theater on May 28 and 29. Rev James R Keane C S M celebrant. narration by Msgr Fulton J Sheen. Archbishop Samuel A Stritch approves. Filmed largely at Our Lady of Sorrows church Chicago. produced under Rev Hugh Calkins O S M supervision.
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James R. Keane
State Theater
Sanctuary Society of the Immaculate Conception Church
Msgr
Fulton J. Sheen
D. D
Hugh Calkins
Samuel A. Stritch
Chicago
Our Lady of Sorrows Church
Frank Calkins
Edwin V. Hoover
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Holy Name
Meet John Doe with Gary Cooper Coming to Iowa
Frank Capra and Gary Cooper star in Meet John Doe at the Iowa theater starting Friday with Barbara Stanwyck in the lead female role. The film follows an everyman who helps the needy yet battles moral compromise, amid a strong supporting cast. A companion feature, Strange Alibi, with Joan Perry and Arthur Kennedy, screens as well.
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John Doe
Iowa
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper
Barbara Stanwyck
Paramount Theater
Charlie Chaplin
Capra
Robert Riskin
Lost Horizons
Mr. Deeds
Edward Arnold
Walter Brennan
Spring Byington
Gene Lockhart
the Iowa
Irene Dunne
Cary Grant
Martha Cheaven
Beulah Bondi
Edgar Buchanan
Ann Doran
Joan Perry
Arthur Kennedy
Comin Round the Mountain at Palace with Uncle Ezra
Uncle Ezra stars in Comin Round the Mountain at the Palace today through Wednesday. The feudin Blowers and Beagles story features Jerry Colonna and Una Merkel with a mountain music feel and radio style humor. Also showing Romance of the Rio Grande with Cesar Romero and Patricia Morrison.
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Bob Burns
Uncle Ezra
Palace Theater
Rio Grande
Cisco Kid
Cesar Romero
Patricia Morison
Lynne Roberts
Ricardo Cortez
Eddie Howard to headline Iowa theater revue
Eddie Howard popular songwriter and radio star will headline a three day stage revue at the Iowa theater starting Friday May 30. He wrote songs including Careless Mean To Me and My Last Goodbye. Also featured are Billy Baer and his orchestra Betty Atkinson Bob Evans and his Pals and Claire and Hudson.
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Eddie Howard
Iowa Theater
Mr. Howard
Billy Baer
Betty Atkinson
Bob Evans
Claire and Hudson
Fielding's Folly in a Vermont Grandmother's Heirloom
Eunice Hale and Francis Fielding wed at Eunice's Vermont grandmother home where she funds their world honeymoon. They return to Retreat Virginia to manage a failing but beloved plantation and raise a son Noel. Grandmother questions Eunice about ongoing repairs and capital draw, warning against depleting family wealth.
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Eunice Hale
Grandma Hale
Noel
Francis
Eunice
Sect
Synofsis
Francis Fielding
Vermont
Singapore
South
Virginia
Fielding
Two Terror Films To Start At State Theater This Week
The State theater opens a double terror program with The Monster and the Girl and The Mad Doctor this week. The Monster and the Girl follows a brain transplanted into a gorilla seeking revenge on six gangsters. Cast includes Ellen Drew Robert Paige Paul Lukas Joseph Calleia. The Mad Doctor stars Basil Rathbone John Howard Barbara Allen and Ellen Drew in the leading roles.
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State Theater
Ellen Drew
Robert Paige
Paul Lukas
Joseph Calleia
Onslow Stevens
Basil Rathbone
John Howard
Barbara Allen
The Lady From Cheyenne and Ride Kelly Ride at The State
Loretta Young stars in The Lady From Cheyenne as a naive schoolteacher facing crooked frontier politicians. The film features Robert Preston Edward Arnold Gladys George Frank Craven and more. Also shown is Ride Kelly Ride a racetrack drama with Eugene Pallette Marvin Stephens Rita Quigley and Mary Healy.
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Barbara Allen
Arnold
Preston
Eugene Pallette
Marvin Stephens
Rita Quigley
Mary Healy
Island of Doomed Men opens at Rialto with Lorre
Peter Lorre stars in Island of Doomed Men a Devil's Island style tale about Ste phen Danel who enslaves paroled convicts on a Pacific island. Robert Wilcox plays Mark Sheldon a secret service man captured to help break the system. Also showing Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie with Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight in an outdoor musical western romance.
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Peter Lorre
Rochelle Hudson
Danel
Johnny Mack Brown
Lone Prairie
Fuzzy Knight
Neil O'Day
Kathryn Adams
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