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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1940
Page
11
Myrna Loy teams with Melvyn Douglas in Third Finger Left Hand at the Paramount. The revue shifts from rough start to a lively finish as a feigned marriage turns into real laughs with Loy and Douglas supported by Felix Bressart and Raymond Walburn.
Hollywood gossip notes announce the Wampas 1940 baby stars including Joan Leslie Peggy Diggins Sheila Ryan Ella Bryan Jayne Hazard Marilyn Merrick Lois Ransom Patricia Van Cleve Lorraine Elliott Tanya Widrin Kay Leslie Gay Parkes Lucia Carroll and Jan olm. Also mentions Henry Fonda Ronald Reagan and upcoming roles plus a dance by the Motion Picture Mothers Inc at Beverly Wilshire with stars like Mickey Rooney Judy Garland and Gary Cooper expected.
Readers weigh in on Oscar bets and dream pairings for Shirley Temple and other stars. Joy Zubrod offers vintage Harpers magazines and Godeys as nostalgia. The scene captures a glittering post premiere mingle with Rita Hayworth and Sabu as New York plans loom.
Iowa and state theaters showcase James Stewart Rosalind Russell in No Time For Comedy. Kent Taylor Linda Hayes perform I m Still Alive. Paramount presents Myrna Lay Melvyn Douglas Third Finger Left Hand with Raymond Walburn Bonita Granville Felix Bressart. City For Conquest stars James Cagney Ann Sheridan with Frank Craven Frank McHugh. Palace features Eddie Cantor Forty Little Mothers Sidney Toler Charlie Chan in the City in Darkness. Rialto screens Legion of the Lawless Errol Flynn Joan Blondell The Perfect Specimen. Strand offers Vaudeville with Destry Rides Again stars Marlene Dietrich James Stewart and Ma He s Making Eyes at Me with Constance Moore Tom Brown.
The piece argues that worry worsens illness and blocks problem solving. It prescribes distinguishing worry from constructive thinking, seeking out talk with an impartial outsider, and transforming worry into purposeful action or prayer. It urges embracing challenge and personal growth to improve body and mind cooperation.
In Chicago, Edmund Iwanski, a milk wagon driver, faces trial as witnesses reveal four sticks of dynamite and four percussion caps found in his home. Coroner toxicologist Dr Clarence Muehlberger testified it was dynamite, linking the material to alleged bombing of a milk depot.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes denounced Wendell L. Willkie at a Democratic rally in St Louis on Friday night criticizing Willkie’s former utilities ties and accusing the Republican candidate of conflicts of interest.
Cedar Rapids postal authorities received a bulletin from Ambrose O Connell first assistant postmaster general warning postmasters not to define the status of doubtful registrants. If unsure they should register pending settlement. questions may be answered by local officials or referred to the justice department. The bulletin prohibits postal workers from deciding on geographic or nationalistic changes for registrants.
A period costing guide outlines a five person meal plan with daily menus and recipes to stretch 12 dollars weekly. It includes bacon muffins using bacon fat, stewed prunes, fried eggs, braised beef shortribs, mashed potatoes and buttered onions, bread, celery, and grapefruit dessert ideas. The plan emphasizes balanced calories protein minerals and vitamins through affordable ingredients.
A collection of various food preparations for a day including breakfast lunch and dinner items with quantities for eggs sugar milk coffee and bread. The notes cite costs for a day around 3.81 and 1.70 with additional recipes for spinach dish and baked items.
A blaze at Newens-Northland company stables in Des Moines killed 22 horses and destroyed fourteen milk delivery trucks and wagons. Firemen controlled the fire about 8 45 p.m. after discovering it an hour earlier, with investigators noting a truck in the rear basement area may have started the blaze due to a newly installed battery.
A collection of Mary Manners guidance on home life and parental bounds. Advice urges teens to respect limits, parents to assert rules, and readers to write condolence letters as kind, supportive gestures.
Advice encourages a student to speak up and walk with a girl after class to show notice. It suggests commenting on the lesson and taking initiative to get acquainted, advising patience and polite persistence in the hallway and on the way home.
Edgar A. Guest laments childhood health fixes once common in homes. The poem recalls asafetida hanging in small bags to ward off ailments, contrasting past practices with modern health norms and blessing future generations for not enduring such smells.
In Barcelona and Gerona provinces, flash floods left Gerona city submerged as the Ter river overflowed. Public services halted, water and gas systems disrupted, telephone links severed, and many bridges washed away.
Review notes Allyn Joslyn steals scenes in No Time For Comedy alongside Rosalind Russell and James Stewart. Plot follows a Red Falls playwright who rises on Broadway then stumbles with a serious drama that flops. Genevieve Tobin coolly influences the lead. Charlie Ruggles appears. a football game reel and a stunt film I’m Still Alive accompany the program.
Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, told a Democratic rally in Rock Island that the national defense effort is advancing magnificently through a broad mass movement. He quoted Wendell Willkie to argue the administration already follows his proposed approach with capable, nonpartisan appointments.
Boston dispatch reports Mayor F H LaGuardia charges Friday night that Republican presidential nominee Wendell L Willkie is not a business man but a promoter par excellence and a ballyhoo artist in a class by himself.
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