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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1932
Page
2
In a snippets tone from Tit Bits a hostess guides Miss Green to have more pudding with a mouthful limitation. Bella is summoned to fill Miss Green's plate as the scene unfolds in a light social vignette.
A double header vaudeville bill and film versions of three stage hits headline Iowa showings today. Stars include Charles Bennington and New York Newsboys Harmonica Band and Doc Baker with Flashes of 1932. Also on screen today are Those We Love and Hell's Highway with Richard Dix. Wheeler and Woolsey lead Girl Crazy at the State, The Roiling Point stars Hoot Gibson at Ri alto for three days, and The Lost Squadron with Richard Dix runs at the Olympic for three days.
Rialto presents Hoot Gibson in Boiling Point, a drama comedy romance about a temperamental youth on probation for thirty days at a ranch. Helen Foster Wheeler Oakman and Billy Bletcher star with a cast of supporting players. Short features include Andy Clyde comedy and Terry Tunes.
A lawsuit filed in Nashville seeks $5,000 damages from L F Watkins after a car overtook his daughter riding a horse. Ralph Harter alleges the horse backed into the car, crushing the side and door and injuring Harter with elbow and three broken ribs while the horse reportedly remained uninjured.
A humorous exchange: the examiner asks a job applicant about operating experience and the girl replies she has had ten silos removed. The punchline hinges on mishearing. the joke presents a mistaken medical or industrial reference in a job interview context.
Wheeler and Woolsey open a three day engagement at the State theater in Girl Crazy a musical Western spoof based on the stage comedy. The film features Dorothy Lee Mitzi Green Arline Judge Kitty Kelley and Stanley Fields with Ford Sterling in Twenty Horses as a second feature and a Paramount newsreel.
Paramount theater announces a midnight Halloween show on Saturday October 29 with dancing in the grand lobby starting at 11 oclock, a floor vaudeville act lineup arranged by manager Ted Emerson, and an advance preview of The Big Broadcast featuring Kate Smith Bing Crosby Burns and Allen Cab Calloway and more. Seats go on sale Saturday at 830 with reservations for parties of ten or more.
Richard Dix stars in The Lost Squadron at the Olympic theater for three days beginning today with Mary Astor Erich von Stroheim Dorothy Jordan Joel McCrea and Robert Armstrong in a tale of bold aerial adventurers.
Vaudeville at Iowa features Charles Bennington with his acrobatic dancing and New York Newsboy Harmonica band alongside Doc Baker, renowned lightning change artist, in a lively winter bill. Also on stage are Vanderbilt Boys crooners, Sheldon and Frayne, and the Alexanders with comedic acrobatics, plus a film, Those We Love, starring Mary Astor and others. New forest planting figures reach 158,000 acres in 1931, totaling 1,953,394 acres reforested.
Exquisitely portrayed film version of Smilin Through at the Paramount through Tuesday, with Norma Shearer in dual Moonyeen Clare and Kathleen Sheridan roles. Frederic March plays Kathleen's sweetheart. supernatural hints thread the romance as Moonyeen's spirit aids the lovers. Includes Max Sennett reel Ma's Pride and Joy, cartoons, and a news reel.
A three day run of Hell's Highway starring Richard Dix opens Monday at the Iowa theater. The film portrays penitentiaries and convict camps, urging abolition of harsh conditions, with a supporting cast led by Tom Brown and Rochelle Hudson, plus a comedy He’s A Honey and Pathe news.
The writer ruminates on how campaigns begin soon after returns and concession announcements. He compares presidential terms, party dynamics, and the mess of early ambition, noting Democrats and Republicans, future nominations, and the churn of political hopefuls through the year.
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