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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1937
Page
11
Hollywood chatter notes Al Jolson has left Warner Brothers to freelance, with talks of roles at other studios including a Mae West musical. Robert Young is tipped for a comeback with a major project, while Frank Shields gets a Mervyn LeRoy push and Edward G. Robinson linked to Lust For Life amid casting corrections.
The paper highlights Romeo and Juliet in connection with a new state bill. A discussion unfolds on their roles and the implications for public policy, reflecting a contemporary cultural or legislative angle rather than a theatrical focus.
Hollywood buzz notes Robert Taylor pushing Don Milo into a Marquee role at Metro. Sigrid Game sets for a lead opposite Gary Cooper in Marco Polo. May Robson departs MGM to freelance, first Warner picture On The Loose. Errol Flynn Robin Hood plans discussed by Hal Wallis and William Keighley. Snapped: Shirley Ross’s beau gift, Harpo Marx antics, Rex Ingram writing, and many stars at summer events and shoots.
Iowa theaters present multiple films led by Josephine Hutchinson and George Brent in Mountain Justice and Anne Neagle with Arthur Tracy in Back Stage. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea lead Woman Chases Man from Paramount, with Melody for Two, Romeo and Juliet at New State, Without Orders at Rialto, Law of the Ranger, Arizona Mahoney, and Three Wise Guys featuring Robert Young Betty Furness.
The Rialto shows Without Orders a modern aviation thriller headlining Friday and Saturday with Robert Armstrong and Sally Eilers as co stars. The plot features blind flying by instruments and the use of two way radio systems during a perilous flight.
The page notes a Peter B. Kyne tale ending in a thrilling climax. The second feature is Law Of The Ranger a wild western starring Bob Allen. A serial Robinson Crusoe returns in chapter ten with Cats and the Fiddle providing comedy.
Notice is hereby given that on a day in May 1937 an instrument purporting to be the will of Clara A. Allen, deceased, will come on for hearing before the District Court for the error and admission of same to probate. Dated Cedar Rapids May 19, 1939. Undquist, Clerk. George E. Farmer, Attorney.
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