Screen headliners sweep Cedar Rapids billboards this fall
The Cedar Rapids program notes highlight top stars including Lionel Barrymore at the Town in One Man's Journey with May Robson Dorothy Jordan and Joel McCrea Also Powell and Ann Harding lead Double Harness at Paramount Lee Tracy headlines Turn Back the Clock at theState Claudette Colbert in Three Cornered Moon is teased for next Saturday Alongside are Leslie Howard Doug Fairbanks Jr Paul Lukas Gary Cooper and Bing Crosby in upcoming features Also Sally Eilers James Dunn Gailers Luck and Helen Hayes cited for imminent screenings with A Night in a French Village at Shrine temple next week
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Cedar Rapids
Lionel Barrymore
Lee Tracy
Ann Harding
William Powell
Barrymore
May Robson
Dorothy Jordan
Joel McCrea
Powell
Miss Harding
Paramount
Paramount Theater
Claudette Colbert
Nered Moon
Leslie Howard
Doug Fairbanks, Jr
Paul Lukas
Gary Cooper
Sally Eilers
James Dunn
Sopa
Helen Hayes
Shrine Temple
Iowa Theaterspromote Lady for a Day and A Rafter Romance
The Iowa lists Lady for a Day starring Warren William and May Robson among top attractions due next week. A Rafter Romance with Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster opens Tuesday. Rialto features a double bill The Woman I Stole and Somewhere, Bonora with John Wayne.
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Iowa
Warren William
May Robson
Guy Kibbee
Glenda Farrell
Ginger Rogers
Norman Foster
Rialto
Jack Holt
Bonora
John Wayne
Rafter Romance at Iowa Tuesday
The Iowa presents a pre release program starting Tuesday featuring A Rafter Romance with Ginger Rogers Norman Foste and a supporting cast including George Sidney Robert Benchley and Laura Hope Crews The bill also includes Sterry Scratchy a cartoon and a news reel with a travelogue segment and a garret era love story set in Greenwich Village.
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Iowa
Rogers
Norman Foste
Greenwich Village
George Sidney
Robert Benchley
Laura Hope Crews
Sterry
Shuffle Along Comes to Iowa Theater Stage
The Iowa theater will host the Negro revue Shuffle Along with Flournoy Miller Eubie Blake Mantan Moreland and Geneva Washington among about fifty entertainers delivering song dance and comedy. Nearby Brown and Henderson present Strike Me Pink with Broadway stars.
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Iowa Theater
Flournoy Miller
Miller and Lyles
Eubbe Blake
Mantan Moreland
Geneva Washington
Brown and Henderson
Lady for a Day At Iowa Friday
A new film calamities praise from critics heralds Lady for a Day as extraordinary with four stars Liberty. The Iowa theater opens Friday with Warren William May Robson Guy Kibbee Glenda Farrell Ned Sparks Jean Parker and Walter Connolly in a Damon Runyon adaptation Madame La Gimp. The drama blends youthful romance humor and heartache on a bustling city stage.
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Spain
America
Annie
White Light District
Warren William
Glenda Farrell
Missouri
Guy Kibbee
Judge Blake
Pilture
Liberty
Iowa
May Robson
Ned Sparks
Jean Parker
Walter Connolly
Damon Runyon
Madame la Gimp
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Night in a French Village Show Planned by El Kahir Temple
Cedar Rapids residents invited to experience A Night in a French Village on September 14 15 and 16 at the El Kahir Temple. The event features a faithful replica of a south France village fair with a high class orchestra and specialty acts. Admission at the gate is twenty five cents per person.
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el Kahir Temple
France
Cedar Rapids
Rialto Headliner Jack Holt in The Woman I Stole
Jack Holt and Fay Wray star in The Woman I Stole at the Rialto for three days starting today. The plot traces oil rivalries between Alianza and Pan Kansas Petroleum in a Moroccan desert and a love triangle with Donald Cook and a Spanish dancer. Noah Beery also features in a jovial cameo as a colorful limit. The program includes John Wayne in Somewhere In Sonora with a rodeo and stagecoach race.
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Jack Holt
Fay Wray
Rialto
Alianza
Pan Kansas Petroleum
Donald Cook
Grand Bandit Genee Air
Heraida
Noah
Requel Torres
Africa
Wheeler
Woolsey
Joseph Hergesheimer
Tampico
Sonora
John Wayne
Shirley Palmer
Radio Comedy Sends Off With Daring Suspense Finale
A radio program opens with a bold suspense sequence and escalates to a thrilling finale. A lighthearted comedy and a live radio band close the broadcast, delivering humor after tension and a musical interlude.
Olympic Theater Celebrates Anniversary With Double Feature
The Olympic theater marks its first anniversary with a four day double bill presenting Sailor’s Luck starring James Dunn Sally Filers and Four Marx Brothers in Horse Feathers. The Sailor’s Luck cast includes Sammy Cohen Frank Moran Victor Jory Esther Muir Will Stanton Curiey Wright Jerry Mandy Lucien Littlefield Buster Phelps and Frank Atkinson. The program also features an organiogue and Century of Progress comedy and news.
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Olympic Theater
James Dunn
Sally Filers
Sammy Cohen
Frank Moran
Victor Jory
Esther Muir
Will Stanton
Curiey Wright
Jerry Mandy
Lucien Littlefield
Buster Phelps
Frank Atkinson
Texas
Double Harness at Paramount with Powell and Harding
An aged plot of a woman trapping a wealthy bachelor unfolds with Powell and Harding delivering sprightly lines and philosophy. The film follows a wife’s method to win him back after a rebuff, with a whimsical butler subtext and a stronger supporting program including Laurel and Hardy.
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William Powell
Ann Harding
Paramount
Miss Harding
Benedict
Laurel
Hardy
Henry
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Paramount Books Many Headline Attractions
The Paramount theater announces a lineup of major screen attractions. Three Cornered Moon stars Claudette Colbert Richard Arlen Mary Boland Lyda Roberts Tom Brown and Wallace Ford for a four day run starting next Saturday. Also showing are Captured with Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr One Sunday Afternoon with Gary Cooper Fay Wray and Neil Hamilton. Other titles include Moonlight and Pretzels Cecil B DeMille style This Day and Age the Marx Brothers Duck Soup Bing Crosby and more top stars.
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Paramount Theater
Claudette Colbert
Richard Arlen
Mary Boland
Lyda Roberts
Tom Brown
Wallace Ford
Paramount Screen
Paramount
Leslie Howard
Douglas Fairbanks
Paul Lukas
Margaret Lindsay
Gary Cooper
Fay Wray
Neil Hamilton
Cecil B
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Four Marx Brothers
Bing Crosby
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Peggy Shannon
George Barbier
Tracy
Taxl Boys
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Rialto Headliner
Danceland
Ann Heald
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