Iowa Tage Show Delights Audiences With Fire Themed Film
Waukon readers report a full house at the Iowa theater for a three hour program featuring The Blue Venus Revue and Grand Exit. Joe May guides the show with lively pacing and a standout dancer, while Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern star in the photoplay with dramatic fire scenes. Mr and Mrs Hagen of Waukon celebrate fifty years of marriage at their farm home with a large family gathering.
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Iowa
Joe May
Jean
Jane
Johnny Weismuller
Frank Libuse
Libuse
Edmund Lowe
Ann Sothern
Solo
W. M
Waukon
G. Hagen
Mermillon Probes Wildburn Mystery At Garoupe
In the Mediterranean tale, Homer Wildburn awakens to a perilous rescue of a jewel‑bearing woman and faces threats from Mermillon the French minister and Baron de Brett. A web of secrets surrounds Louise de Fantany and Benoit as Wildburn navigates intrigue at a dinner party aboard and ashore.
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Homer Wildburn
Mediterranean
Wildburn
Wildborn
Mermilion
Baron de Brett
Louise de Fantany
Mermillon
Yentarkar
Chicotin
Lucienne de Montelimar
Mermillon Delays Departure Amid Paris Antibes Gossip
In a crowded Sporting club scene Edouard Mermillon probes a secret about General Perissol while high society debates his loyalties. Rumors swirl around the Belgian Baron de Brett’s baccarat and the absent Princess de Fantany as discussions hint at a looming Paris intrigue.
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Perissol
France
Lighthouse Hill
Mermillon
Paris
Antibes
Marseilles
Monsieur
Scatheless
Icave
Sporting Club
Edouard Mermillon
Baron de Brett
Princess de Fantany
Italy
Theaters Show New Film and Stage Lineup Across Town
A roundup of theater listings includes Grand Exit with Ann Sothern and Edmund Lowe at AT THE THEATERS TOWN, Diamond Jim with Edward Arnold and Jean Arthur at PARAMOUNT, Bad Boy with James Dunn at STATE, Let Em Have It and The Old Homestead at PALACE, Chinatown Squad and Champagne for Breakfast at RIALTO, Little Colonel at OLYMPIC, and 8 Bells starring Ann Sothern. In Waukon a rural fire crew battled a house fire sparked by a jack o lantern, damaging the home and prompting insurance claim. Decorah saw a church parsonage wedding as Adeline Fagerlie wed Alten Nelson, with Eva Nelson and Lloyd Meyer present. The piece notes the opossum as a kangaroo relative.
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Ann Sothern
Edmund Lowe
Paramount
Edward Arnold
Jean Arthur
Binnie Barnes
Elisabeth Bergner
STATE
James Dunn
Dorothy Wilson
Palace
Richard Arlen
Virginia Bruce
Mary Carlisle
Lawrence Gray
Rialto
Lyle Talbot
Valerie Hobson
Lila Lee
Joan Marsh
Shirley Temple
Little Colonel
Rarph Bellamy
Decorah
First Lutheran Church
Adeline Fagerlie
Alten Nelson
T. A. Hoff
Eva Nelson
Lloyd Meyer
State Highway Patrol
Hans Fagerlie
Cresco
Chinatown Squad Opens Rialto Program in San Francisco
The Rialto presents Chinatown Squad shown in San Francisco with Lyle Talbott and Valerie Hobson leading. The feature follows a Chinatown murder mystery solved by a picked police force amid Tong wars and urban crime. Supporting cast includes Hugh O Connell Henry Armetta Andy Devine Leslie Fenton.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Chinatown Squad
Rialto
Lyle Talbott
Valerie Hobson
Hugh O'Connell
Henry Armetta
Andy Devine
Leslie Fenton
Lila Lee
Hardie Albright
Joan Marsh
Mary Harding
Tom Mix
Cats
Keehn and Wells Tie The Knot At Decorah
WAUKON The marriage of Reuben Keehn son of Mr and Mrs Otto Keehn well known farmers for this vicinity and Miss Ruth Wells of Erie Minn took place at Decorah the Rev O Sandbach officiating They will establish home on a farm near Waukon
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Waukon
Reuben Keehn
Otto Keehn
Ruth Wells
Erie
Minn
Decorah
O. Sandbach
Wauon
Ray Williams Fined for Missing Revenue Stamps on Cigarette Pack
Ray Williams was fined $100 after failing to place required revenue stamps on cigarette packs. He appeared before Justice John Cutting, brought by a state inspection representative, in Decorah.
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Decorah
Ray Williams
John Cutting
Edward Arnold Stars in Diamond Jim at Paramount double feature
Edward Arnold delivers a mixed biographical saga as Diamond Jim Brady alongside Binnie Barnes as Lillian Russell. The program includes a train wreck sequence and a steel coach crash, while Elisabeth Bergner stars in Escape Me Never in the British spot.
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Edward Arnold
Diamond Jim
Diamond Jim" Brady
Paramount
Arnold
Lillian Russell
Brady
Binnie Barnes
Diamond Jima
Elisabeth Bergner
Miss Bergner
Paramount News
Town PTA hears talk on diphtheria and smallpox vaccines
Dr Irving Borts chief bacteriologist and head epidemiologist of the University of Town urged immunization against diphtheria and smallpox at the monthly PTA meeting in the high school auditorium. Morrell Leeds led group singing and Mrs. W H Schneck read a PTA convention report with Miss Carlson singing.
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Tipton
Irving Borts
University of Town
Borts
Morrell Leeds
W. H. Schneckloth
Monticello
Carlson
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Tage
Ann Sqthern
Pad Lukas Ralph Forbes
Heather Angel Lan Kieth
Major Bowes
Amateur Theater OF the Air
Feg Murray
Teddy von Eltz
Hollywadde
Annsyeioy
Ann Loring
Daughter
OF the Dons
Earl California
Jasin Hoqd
EL Cordons
Bradalyn
New Jersey
Great Britain
Monsieur Benoit
Garoupe
General Perissol
Arno
Etro Mosalind
Et Binnie
Aun
Russell’ Barnes
Eros Lond Atwills
Cesar Rommro
Samuels
Hinds
Torillings
Miriam Hopkins
Becky Sharp
Spencer Tracy
Wendy Barrie
Hardy Mary Albright Barding
Irao Union Des
Adolph Gruber
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Edw
Arnold Scores AS
Ray Alderson
Great Band
Danceland
Iowa Theatre
Rex
Cedar Rapids
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