Theaters Add New Double Bill Promos This Week
Gary Cooper shines in Beau Geste at Paramount while Dust Be My DesTiny beams at Iowa theater with John Garfield and Priscilla Lane. Lew Ayres Lana Turner star in These Glamour Girls at State. Boris Karloff returns to Iowa in The Man They Could Not Hang next Tuesday. Randolph Scott Nancy Kelley lead Frontier Marshal at Paramount starting Tuesday. Jascha Heifetz in They Shall Have Music with Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea opens Thursday at State. Francis Lederer leads Confessions of a Nazi Spy at Strand coming Tuesday and Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boris Karloff
Iowa Theater
Randolph Scott
Nancy Kelley
Paramount Theater
Jascha Heifetz
Andea Leeds
Joel McCrea
State Theater
Francis Lederer
Strand Theater
Paramount To Present Four Stage Hits In Cedar Rapids
Tri-States Theater an nounced a Cedar Rapids season with four top productions at the Paramount. Taylor Holmes leads On Borrowed Time November 23, followed by Golden Boy January 17. Le Gallienne appears February 21 in Hedda Gabler or The Master Builder, with Eva Le Gallienne in person. The season closes April 3 with What A Life starring Jackie Cooper. Branton said the company aims to find which type of legitimate show appeals most in cities like Cedar Rapids.
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Edar Rapids
Tri- States Theater Corporation
Paramount Theater
G. Ralph Branton
Tri-States
Hal Sheridan
Paramount
Taylor Holmes
Jeeter
Tobacco Road
Clifford Odets
le Gallienne
Cedar Rapids
Glamour Girls at State Theatre With Lana Turner Debut
The State presents These Glamour Girls a new college life comedy drama starring Lana Turner in her first top billing role and Lew Ayres at the New State theater. The film follows a dime-a-dance hostess who accepts an invitation to visit college life.
Champagne Music Of Welk At Danceland On Thursday
The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk will headline a dancing party at Danceland next Thursday from 9 to 1. Welk, famed for accordion mastery and midwest popularity after a Chicago theater run, began at Yankton radio and has performed in hotels across the region. Carl Nebbe's band follows on Sunday night, with a special Jitterbug Jubilee next Tuesday to please dancers barred from the floor on other nights. George Sir Venka's band also appears.
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Lawrence Welk
Danceland
Welk
Midwest
Chicago
Yankton
S. C
Middle West
Shirley Temple in Just Around the Corner at The Strand
The Strand presents Shirley Temple in Just Around the Corner as part of a strong double bill today and Monday. The child star headlines a program featuring bright family entertainment at the Strand theater.
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Strand
Shirley Temple
Beau Geste Brings Three Brothers to French Foreign Legion
Gary Cooper Ray Milland and Robert Preston lead in Paramount’s Beau Geste based on P. C. Wren. The drama follows three Geste brothers whose loyalty drives them to high adventure in the French Foreign Legion at the Para theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Cooper
Ray Milland
Robert Preston
Paramount
French Foreign Legion
Paramount Theater
P. C. Wren
Geste Brothers
Blind Alley at the Rialto with Morris Bel lamy and Dvorak
A thrilling Rialto program runs today through Tuesday featuring Blind Alley. Chester Morris Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak star in a gangster story and western style drama where a ruthless gunman becomes an unwitting patient of a psychologist in a stage play adapted narrative.
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Rialto
Chester Morris
Ralph Bellamy
Ann Dvorak
Music and Romance in Palace Feature
Palace presents two features today through Wednesday. Dorothy Lamour stars in St Louis Blues as a celebrity who abandons fame for true love aboard a river show boat. Lloyd Nolan leads a brisk captain-owner role in Silver on the Sage with Hopalong Cassidy and pals Windy and Lucky.
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St. Louis
Palace
Hopalong Cassidy
Windy
Lucky
Hotel Imperial heads to Paramount with Milland
The dramatic tale follows a dozen lives in an eastern European hotel as armies press toward a no man’s land. Ray Milland stars as a dashing Austrian cavalry officer, joined by Isa Miranda in this Tuesday feature.
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No Man's Land
Paramount Theater
Ray Milland
Isa Miranda
Milland
Golden Boy at the Iowa Friday
A screen version of Clifford Odets drama starring Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou and William Holden comes to the Iowa theater next Friday. It follows a young violinist who climbs to pugilistic fame, brutalizes his father and conscience, and finds redemption through love and forgiveness. The companion feature is Forgotten Woman, a dramatic story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigrid Gurie
Algiers
Marco Polo
Donald Briggs
Clifford Odets
Barbara Stanwyck
Adolphe Menjou
William Holden
Iowa Theater
Iowa To Show New Karloff Picture
Boris Karloff stars in The Man They Could Not Hang as a scientist who revives the dead after execution. His transformation from humanitarian to cruel mastermind drives the horror tale with Roger Pryor Lorna Gray and Robert Wilcox. Added feature Should Hose bands Work accompanies the film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boris Karloff
Iowa
Karloff
Roger Pryor
Lorna Gray
Robert Wilcox
Higgins
Violinist Heifetz Stars in State Theater Feature
Stardust violinist Jascha Heifetz stars in They Shall Have Music opening next Thursday at the State theater. The drama follows a ragged east side music school and a talented boy Frankie, with the California Junior Symphony Orchestra of 45 youths joining the cast. On the program is Torchy Plays With Dynamite featuring Jane Wyman and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jascha Heifetz
State Theater
Andrea Leeds
Joel McCrea
Walter Brennan
Gene Reynolds
Tommy Kelly
New York
East Side
Frankie
Heifetz
Torchy
Jane Wyman
Allen Jenkins
Tom Kennedy
Sheila Bromley
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John Garfield
Priscilla Lane
Lew Ayres
Lana Turner
Thornwood
Eddy Dunsmoor
Raindrop Music
Tom
Bette
Garfield
Alain Tale
Met
Irene Rick
Helop
Lewis Seller
Wai Extra
Henry O'Neill
Carl Nebbe
Hotel Imperial
Anna May Wong
Carroll Naish
Eric Blore
Paramount Hit
Ann Sheridan
Pat O'Brien
John Payne
Indianapolis Speedway
Lafayette Cafe
John Thomas
Golden Boy
The
Iowa Friday
Alytte
Brothers In Arms
Ubeau” Geste Toeey Cooper the Leughs
Denger A
Rey Millend
Brian Donlevy
Susan Hayward
J Corcol Naish
Donald O Connor
Janus Stephenson
Whuam & Weinman
Larry Clinton
Paramount News
Frederick Brothers Music Corporation
Jerry Burke
Walter Bloom
Kirby Brooks
Atyrone Power
Loretta Young
Violinist
WED
Paramount Picture
Dorothy Lamour
Lloyd Nolan
Tito Guizar
Jerome Cowan
Oesshe Ralph
William Faawaey
Mary Parker
Maxine Sullivan
Cliff Nazarro
King's Men and
Matty Malneck
Hi Orchestra
Columbia
Columbia Picture
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