Theaters Showcase Star-Studded Week of Classics
Gary Cooper in Beau Geste at Paramount leads a film lineup that includes John Garfield and Priscilla Lane in Dust Be My Destiny at the Iowa. Lew Ayres and Lana Turner in These Glamour Girls at the State. Boris Karloff in The Man They Could Not Hang arriving Tuesday to Iowa. Randolph Scott and Nancy Kelley star Frontier Marshal starting Tuesday at Paramount. Jascha Heifetz with Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea perform They Shall Have Music starting Thursday at the State. Francis Lederer leads Confessions of a Nazi Spy coming to the Strand next 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 at Cedar Rapids
Paramount and Tri-States announce a four show season at the Paramount theater with Taylor Holmes in On Borrowed Time on Nov 23, Golden Boy on Jan 17, Le Gallienne in Hedda Gabler or The Master Builder on Feb 21, and What A Life starring Jackie Cooper on Apr 3. Branton says the plan tests demand for legitimate productions in mid sized cities and seeks the most popular format.
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Taylor Holmes
Jeeter
Tobacco Road
Paramount
Clifford Odets
le Gallienne
These Glamour Girls at New State theater
Lew Ayres and Lana Turner star in These Glamour Girls a college comedy drama at the New State This debutante glamour tale follows a dime a dance hostess who accepts an invitation to a glamorous campus life, revealing the era’s film glamour and social scenes.
Champagne Music Of Welk At Danceland This Thursday
The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk will headline a dancing party at Danceland next Thursday from 9 to 1. Welk, a favored midwest act after a Chicago theater engagement, will appear at popular prices and is noted for his accordion mastery and personable tone. Carl Nebbe and his band provide dance music Sunday night, and a Jitterbug Jubilee is planned next Tuesday to please jitterbugs.
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Lawrence Welk
Danceland
Welk
Midwest
Chicago
Yankton
S. C
Middle West
Shirley Temple at Strand in Just Around the Corner
The Strand theater presents a double bill headlined by Shirley Temple in Just Around the Corner along with a second feature. The program runs today and Monday with Temple starring in a family friendly offering at the local cinema.
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Strand
Shirley Temple
Beau Geste Stars Gary Cooper in New Paramount Film
Gary Cooper Ray Milland and Robert Preston lead a three brother troupe in Beau Geste a Paramount adaptation of P C Wrens novel showing as the new picturization of the three Geste brothers loyalty and high adventure in the French Foreign Legion based on the story of their joinin g the Legion.
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Gary Cooper
Ray Milland
Robert Preston
Paramount
French Foreign Legion
Paramount Theater
P. C. Wren
Geste Brothers
Blind Alley at Rialto Promises Thrilling Western Saga
A sensational screen thriller titled Blind Alley plays at the Rialto today through Tuesday. Chester Morris Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak star in a tale combining rapid action with a subtle mental conflict as a ruthless gunman becomes an unwitting patient of a skilled psychologist. The production draws from Broadway history as a stage drama.
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Rialto
Chester Morris
Ralph Bellamy
Ann Dvorak
St Louis Blues at the Palace Drama on a Show Boat
Palace offers St Louis Blues a lively mix of drama music and humor headlined by Dorothy Lamour as a celebrity runaway seeking real love aboard a river show boat. Lloyd Nolan co stars as the boat captain owner in a feature that entertains both romance and music lovers. A second Palace feature, Silver on the Sage, brings Hopalong Cassidy and pals Windy and Lucky in a fast paced western thriller.
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St. Louis
Palace
Hopalong Cassidy
Windy
Lucky
Golden Boy at the Iowa Friday
The Iowa theater screens Golden Boy next Friday starring Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou and William Holden. A young violinist climbs to boxing fame while clashing with his music loving father and conscience until love and forgiveness draw him home. Companion feature Forgotten Woman offers another dramatic story.
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Clifford Odets
Barbara Stanwyck
Adolphe Menjou
William Holden
Iowa Theater
Hotel Imperial at Paramount Promises sweeping drama
The tangled lives of a dozen people in an eastern European hotel unfold as armies converge in no man’s land. Stars Ray Milland and Isa Miranda with Milland as a dashing Austrian cavalry officer separated from his unit.
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No Man’s-Land
Paramount Theater
Ray Milland
Isa Miranda
Milland
Iowa To Show New Karloff Picture
The Man They Could Not Hang stars Boris Karloff as a scientist who brings the dead back to life only to become a terrifying creature. Roger Pryor Lorna Gray and Robert Wilcox are part of the cast. An added feature is Should Husbands Work.
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Boris Karloff
Iowa
Tuesay
Karloff
Roger Pryor
Lorna Gray
Robert Wilcox
Higgins
Violin Virtuoso Heifetz Headlines State Theater Feature
Star violinist Jascha Heifetz headlines the State theater opening next Thursday in They Shall Have Music. Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea lead a romantic pair with Walter Brennan Gene Reynolds and Tommy Kelly in supporting roles. The plot follows a ragged New York City music school and a runaway boy seeking Heifetz’s aid to save the school. The program also includes Torchy Plays With Dynamite featuring Jane Wyman and others.
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Jascha Heifetz
State Theater
Andrea Leeds
Joel McCrea
Walter Brennan
Gene Reynolds
Tommy Kelly
New York
East Side
Frankie
Heifetz
Mistletoe Prefers Certain Tree Types
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Larry Clinton
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Pat O'Brien
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Sheila Bromley
LACE
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Jessie Ralph
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