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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1940
Page
13
Gable and Tracy star in a Paramount feature with Colbert and Lamarr. The film mixes fights and romance with comic relief from Morgan and Witwer as it follows Gable guiding a mud drenched escape and a daring mule ride. A second feature, When the Daltons Rode, stars Randolph Scott and Kas Francis in a frontier saga about the Daltons and a land dispute.
Walter Wanger's The House Across the Bay opens Thursday at the State theater with George Raft and Joan Bennett leading. Bennett plays a dramatic role while Raft portrays Steve Larwitt, a modern man of means and ambition. Cast includes Gladys George Walter Pidgeon June Knight and Lloyd Nolan.
The Town screens All This and Weaven Too starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer. Paramount opens When the Daltons Rode with Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy and Stuart Erwin. South of Pago Pago with Victor McLaglen and Frances Farmer plays State. Boom Town with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable at Paramount. A House Across the Bay leads at the State with Joan Bennett and George Raft. The Kelsie Weight tale portrays a working girl supporting her family while a romance with Barbary Kent unfolds amid housing lectures and family pressures.
The feature follows a timid clerk entangled with a gang of racketeers as Lew Ayres and Rita Johnson headline. Virginia Gres plays the moll amid danger as a fugitive threatens the insurer, with Lloyd Nolan leading the overboss. Co feature is South of Pago Pago with Victor McLaglen.
He Stayed For Breakfast features Loretta Young and Melvin Douglas as a waiter who hides a fugitive in the financier's estranged wife’s apartment. The bill also includes Three Faces West with John Wayne and Sigrid Gurie, All This and Heaven Too with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer, plus Woody Herman’s Orchestra and a color cartoon.
Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette headline the Rialto engagement through Tuesday in Carolina Moon with June Storey in the feminine lead. The bill includes The Cavalcade and the serial Revenge of Red Ryder with Don Barry plus a musical cartoon and News of the Day.
Errol Flynn plays a Union officer in Virginia City Nev a Civil War era tale about Confederate smugglers seeking gold. Randolph Scott is a Confederate officer Miriam Hopkins a dance hall girl courts Flynn and Bogart appears with Alan Hale and Guinn Williams. The companion feature On Their Own follows the Jones Family as they lose their home and take over a bungalow court with humor.
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