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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1939
Page
17
Crowds pack Danceland for Tiny Hill Thursday with the famed bandleader leading a 12-man orchestra from Chicago Melody Mill. Tonight Dick Mills from Wichita opens, and Tuesday brings a Halloween carnival ball with Len Carroll’s 11-piece band and a featured girl singer.
Mickey Rooney co stars with Judy Garland in Babes in Arms at Paramount. The film follows vaudeville families facing state farm threats as kids mount their own show and attract a Broadway producer, with a cast including Winninger Kibbee Hayes Preisser and Jaynes. Also showing What a Life with Jackie Cooper and Betty Fields and Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence with Rogers Ford.
The State theater opens with Thunder Afloat featuring Wallace Beery as a tugboat captain who joins the navy to fight alone, Chester Morris as a rival tugboat skipper, and Virginia Grey as the lone female lead. Action at sea includes subchasers and U boats, with underwater footage and interior U boat scenes. The co feature Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase stars Bonita Granville and others, followed by Dancing Co ed with Lana Turner and King Shaw.
Bing Crosby returns to the Strand through Tuesday in Paris Honeymoon. The program includes Honolulu with Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, plus comedy by George and Gracie Allen. Crosby weds one girl but loves another as the first woman seeks his money. a musical short with Hal Kemp’s orchestra and a cartoon complete the bill.
Dennis King and Vivienne Segal star in I Married An Angel at the Iowa stage with Karen van Ryn and Bobbe Arnst in the cast. After a year on Broadway the Rodgers and Hart musical features a Budapest banker who marries an angel and confronts comic complications amid glamorous sets and chorus.
Narcissus or daffodils are among the most popular spring bulbs. They bloom from March through May, lighting borders with color and requiring only modest care. Different varieties offer trumpets or small crown forms with a range of colors, suited to varied garden tastes.
Laurens Koster leads this year’s trial featuring poeticus ornatus poeticus common pheasant eye and Ele vira alongside Golden Scepter and Twink with plans for a recurrent comeback annual.
Zorina returns to the Iowa theater next Friday in On Your Toes a comedy musical showing with Eddie Albert from Brother Rat fame The production features a comic plot about a be wildered American youth cast with a Russian ballet troupe and jazz ballet elements The cast includes George Balanchine Alan Hale Frank McHugh Erik Rhodes and James Gleason The companion feature Ese Pionage Agent stars Joel McCrea Brenda Marshall Jeffrey Lynn and George Bancroft Also showing Frank Capra's Mr Smith Goes To Washington with James Stewart and Jean Arthur plus Gun Play Good Egg and a sportscope short
At the Palace today through Wednesday the film follows a young couple who marry despite differing upbringings. Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray co star with Charles Ruggles Billy Cook Marion Martin and William Collier sr. The second feature is Boy Friend starring Jane Withers with her first crush George Ernest.
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur star in Only Angels Have Wings at the Rialto through Tuesday. The film follows flyers who set new records with supporting roles by Richard Barthelmess Thomas Mitchell and Noah Beery Jr. Also shown John Wayne in Wyoming Outlaw, plus Hawk of the Wilderness chapter four, a comedy and Disney cartoon.
A long distance train between Moscow and Tiflis offers a 76 hour journey featuring radios and telephones for passenger use a library and a special culture and rest car as attractions highlighting amenities and comfort on the route.
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