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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1934
Page
6
Coming to the Paramount next Sunday is likely the biggest bargain in town. Will Rogers latest picture Judge Priest will be the number one feature and 365 Nights in Hollywood with Alice Faye and Jimmie Dunn is the second feature.
Cedar Rapids reports five vaudeville acts including Les Reis Artie Dunn and a Tenor duo with twins. Irene Dunne and John Boles star in Age of Innocence with a modern love triangle and capable supporting cast.
Barbara Stanwyck headlines a double bill at the Iowa Wednesday through Friday in A Lost Lady based on Willa Cather. Joan Lowell stars in Adventure Girl as she recounts perilous jungle adventures and sea voyages from New York to the Spanish Main.
Paramount theater opens today with two major features in a new program. Harold Lloyd stars in The Cat’s Paw with Una Merkel and Nat Pendleton, while Love Time follows Vienna life with Pat Paterson and Nils Asther, featuring Franz Schubert music. The four day run ends Wednesday before a new double feature arrives.
The Iowa theater opens Saturday with Joe E Brown in Six Day Bike Rider plus five vaudeville acts. Paramount screens Harold Lloyd in The Cat's Paw as the top feature through Wednesday with a second bill Adventure Girl. Town shows A Lost Lady with Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Morgan starting Wednesday, second feature Adventure Girl with Joan Lowell. Paramount's Lovetime with Pat Patterson heads the second bill about Franz Schubert. Twin bill at Paramount starts Thursday with George Arliss in The Last Gentleman and There’s Always Tomorrow with Frank Morgan and Binnie Barnes as the second feature.
Joe E Brown the wide mouthed comedian comes to the Iowa theater next Saturday in Six Day Bike Rider a First National production billed as the biggest rib tickler yet. The film features a six day race with twenty four professional riders on a real track and a riotous sequence where sixteen riders crash in a single scene.
Joe E Brown headlines Circus Clown at the Rialto for Sunday through Tuesday with a circus backdrop and stunts including a lion brush and trapeze work. Patricia Ellis leads with a supporting cast of Gordon Westcott and Harry Woods in a lively double feature alongside Blind Date with Ann Sothern and Neil Hamilton.
The Palace presents a mix of music and mystery with Fari Carroll in Murder at the Vanities. Duke Ellington and his orchestra headline a star lineup including Jack Oakie Carl Brisson Gertrude Michael and Kitty Carlisle as the cast while two on stage murders unfold and are solved in the story. A Frolics of Youth comedy and shorts accompany the feature.
The State theater will close after Saturday’s final performance for four weeks. It will reopen in mid November with a new policy for Cedar Rapids theater-goers. Minor remodeling will occur during the closure.
The review highlights Frank McHugh as a witty supporting actor and rider in the film. Maxine Doyle and Gordon Westcott also appear in the cast, contributing to the ensemble's humor and dynamic.
Paramount to open two features this Thursday headlined by George Arliss in The Last Gentleman and Ursula Parrott’s There’s Always Tomorrow. Arliss plays a whimsical old millionaire seeking a worthy heir while the Parrott tale follows a long suffering father of five whose family life unfolds amid changing fortunes.
The Olympic theater begins a four day run presenting It Happened One Night starring Clark Gable Claudette Colbert and Walter Connolly and The Mad Game featuring Spencer Tracy Claire Trevor and Ralph Morgan A nationwide abduction ring is described in the expose as part of the program. Selected shorts accompany the features.
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