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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1936
Page
14
Shirley Temple's new film Dimples opens Friday at the Paramount theater featuring singing and dancing. The comedy follows a street urchin with a comical guardian and includes four new songs like Hey What Did the Blue Jay Say. Also listed are other films and stars showing at nearby theaters.
Football stars headline the film The Big Game set for Iowa Friday. Real pigskin players headline both teams led by Phillip Huston and June Travis with a cast including Bobby Wilson William Shakes Klein Jay Berwanger Monk Moscrip and others. The feature also features ex-coal miners Huston and Cabot in a tale of Atlantic University. The second major feature Daniel Boone stars George OBrien and Heather Angel detailing Boone’s Kentucky settlement and Boonesborough founding.
The State theater closes after today for modernization and reopens Oct 17 with The Last of the Mohicans starring Randolph Scott. Also on the program are Pepper with Jane Withers and A Star For A Night with Claire Trevor and Jane Darwell, plus the Jones Family in Back to Nature.
The Marcus company of 75 performers announces three days of the new extravaganza La Vie Paree at the Iowa theater starting Tuesday October 20. The troupe, noted as the largest musical show on tour, has appeared in Cedar Rapids before and plans South America after tour dates. Notable members include Leon Miller Harold Boyd and His Jig Saws Senorita Sophia Alvarez Dancing Bernays Art Stanley and La Conga. The screen feature will be Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Mummy's Boys.
The Iowa theatre opens a four day run Monday with The Presidents Mystery and Killer At Large. Henry Wilcoxon and Betty Furness star in The Presidents Mystery a tale of unemployment and community coop to reopen a factory.
Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland star in Wives Never Know at the Paramount with a second feature I d Give My Life. Adolphe Menjou plays the love expert guiding a husband into jealous schemes that test a happy marriage alongside Vivienne Osborne and Frances Drake.
Fields stars in a riotous carnival tale set in 1883 with Rochelle Hudson as Poppy and Richard Cromwell acting as the mayor’s son. O Malley Of The Mounted teams with W C Fields in a double feature at the Palace today.
The forecast notes a mix of social and domestic gains against potential bereavement and sorrow. Those with a birthday should brace for low mood. supports include friends and social ties. A child born today favors solitude and may bond with elderly companions.
The Coe College Playhouse announces its first production Death Takes a Holiday set for November 12 and 13. Kent Andrews directs with Laura Pearle Stewart as associate director and Jane Henderson as student director.
Mrs. Fred Nowa chek was elected president of the Midland Homemakers club Thursday at the home of Mrs. Joe and Mrs. Lumir Holub. Other officers are Mrs. Frank Nowachek as vice president and Mrs. C. A. First as secretary treasurer. Mrs. Fred Lazare presented the program.
Captain Blood stars Errol Flynn with Olivia de Havilland in the lead and a large cast including Basil Rathbone Lionel Atwill Ross Alexander and Robert Barrat on the Rialto bill through Tuesday. The second feature Unknown Ranger stars Bob Allen with Martha Tibbetts as female lead featuring a horse villain and a musical comedy with cats and fiddle completes the program.
Randalia junior class will stage the play Correspondence Courtship in the school gymnasium on November 13. The cast features Lorraine Frye Clair Claxton Austin Hall Verla Mayer Marjorie Edmunds Bob Bacon Mardell Cue Clifford Bratto Marion Davis Kenneth Cooley with Miss Rench directing.
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