Amusement Menu Highlights Drama and Comedy This Week
The week opens with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in Love Me Tonight at Paramount with a 30 minute Dangerous Females by Dressler and Moran. Barbara Stanwyck stars in The Purchase Price at State. Rialto features George Arliss in The Man Who Played God with co stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Chevalier
Jeanette MacDonald
Paramount Theater
Chevalier
Miss MacDonald
Marie Dressler
Polly Moran
Barbara Stanwyck
Arthur Stringer
Miss Stanwyck
Boyd B. Trousdale
Raymond
Majestic Theater
Bush” Burrichter
Blonde Venus Ready for New York Premiere and Cedar Rapids
After ten weeks of production Paramount completes Blonde Venus starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant. The film debuts in New York this week with Dietrich in a dramatic American role and features four new songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josef von Sternberg
Paramount
Marlene Dietrich
New York City
Cedar Rapids
Hollywood
Miss Dietrich
Herbert Marshall
Cary Grant
Paramount Story One Love Me Tonight and Dangerous Females
A review notes Love Me Tonight a fantasy romance with Charles Butterworth Charlie Ruggles and Jeanette MacDonald. The program includes Dangerous Females a breezy farce with Marie Dressler Polly Moran and a Paramount News and Pictorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
San Aes
Charles Butterworth
Charlie
On Location for Jubil o Silent Film with Stars
Actor recalls making the old silent film Jubil o on location with a small five person cast and a large crew. He notes the circus like setup with sound equipment, praises crew, and laments the unpredictable nature of filming and the prevailing industry he calls cuckoo and government like.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnums Circus
Old Horse Over Cars In Edge Of High Sierras
Columnist laments overtop of modern changes in film and society. He compares old horse transport to autos, critiques movie titles using Hell, and argues villains and mortgages remain familiar echoes of past times. Copyright 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lea
Bill Hayes
Hell
Christ
Villian
Barbara Stanwyck Starred in The Purchase Price at State
Barbara Stanwyck headlines a three day engagement at the State theater in The Purchase Price adapted from Arthur Stringer's The Mud Lark. George Brent co stars as her leading man in a tale of a nightclub performer who becomes a picture bride to escape an older powerful admirer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Stanwyck
State Theater
Arthur Stringer
Miss Stanwyck
Rde
George Brent
Brent
Ruth Chatterton
Raymond's Comedians open at Majestic in three act north woods farce
Trousdale announces Toby the Cave Man as opening comedy with Raymond's Comedians at the Majestic. Bush Burrichter leads a strong cast including Pearl Long Raymond Ketchum Sara Treadwell and John Morse. Harmony Hounds 9 piece band performs a Diamond Land prelude. Three shows today at 2:30 7 and 9 with Ferol Ballard directing the music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd B. Trousdale
Raymond
North Woods
Toby
Bush” Burrichter
Pearl Long
Will Raymond Ketchum
Sara Treadwell
John Morse
Mr. Trousdale
Harmony Hounds
Jack Lee
George Stirsky
Bush
Burrichter
Basil Baker
Wrink Long
al Getzen
John Burrell
Ferol Ballard
Diamond Land
Man Who Played God at Rialto Weekend Run Ends
George Arliss stars in The Man Who Played God at the Rialto for Sunday through Tuesday. The film follows a renowned musician who becomes deaf after a bomb incident and loses his career. He sinks into despair before discovering compassion for other sufferers and renewed purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Rialto
George Arliss
Arlington youths take teaching posts in various towns
A group of Arlington students depart to work as teachers in multiple locations. Lorna Bates will teach in Tipton, Maude Gordon in Mason City, Fern Northrop in Clermont, Vance Bates in Fredericka, Elmer Nus in Fredericka, Leta Montz in Oelwein, Eula Ward in Fayette, Filetta Oldfather in Fayette, Elsie Youngman in Decorah, Walter Hetzel in Sumner, Leona Schaeffer in Bennett, Josephine Flowers in Green Bay Wisconsin, and Carol Eckheart in Conrad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Lorna Bates
Tipton
Maude Gordon
Mason City
Fern Northrop
Clermont
Vance Bates
Fredericka
Elmer Nus
Leta Montz
Oelwein
Eula Ward
Fayette
Filetta Oldfather
Elsie Youngman
Decorah
Walter Hetzel
Sumner
Leona Schaeffer
Bennett
Josephine Flowers
Green Bay, Wis
Carol Eckheart
Conrad
Chestnut Borer Epidemic Threat In State Parks
Gordon Gray, graduate forester at Ames, reports the two lined chestnut borer has spread in Iowa state parks for three years and may reach epidemic levels. The infestation totals 1,529 trees, with 797 infested in 1932, and strict control is needed to prevent widespread destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Conservation
Gordon Gray
Ames
Gray
High School Music Plans Announced by Miss Hamblin
Miss Hamblin names the high school girls sextet for the year. Members listed include Esther Anderson Elaine Cran Betty Howell Eleanor Bjorklund Lulu Francisco Marion Wright Iola Mazziotti Ruth Voelker Helen Wade Ina Voelker Arleen Barton Grace Eck. Miss Butts from Bedford will lead the same work for the girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oelwein
Maurine Hameblin
Leo J. Dvorak
Cedar Rapids
Hamblin
S. Esther Anderson
Elaine Cran
Betty Howell
Eleanor Bjorklund
Lulu Francisco
Marion Wright
Iola Mazziotti
Ruth Voelker
Helen Wade
Ina Voelker
Arleen Barton
Grace Eck
Linnie V. Butts
Bedford
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Dickie Moore
Kent Taylor
Frances Sayles
Robert Emmett O’connor
Gene Morgan
Rita la Roy
Sidney Ken Evelyn Preer
Gertrude Short
Ha Od Berquist
Clifford Dempsey
Bessie Lyle
Banes
Marlene
Morocco
Harlem
Enus
Arliss
Violet Hemming
Bette Davis
Louise Closser Hale
the Majestic
Cave Man
Paramount Story
Lake Tahoe
Clara Bow
Pat
High Sierras
Mount Whitney
Binsee Gee
Trousdale
Majestic
Nane
Eeenaee
George Arliss In
Man Who Played
Oakwowod
Wellman
Raymonds
Toby) Burrichter
the Cave Man
Raymond’s
Boyd
Chesters Diamond
All Drussie
Maeda
Tee
Brand
Frank Wood
Mgr
Ng Sandy Bea
Charles Ruggles
Myrna Loy
Exhra
Paramount News
Isc
Imperial Gardens
Worthington
Benny Sears
America
United States
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