Sixes at the Theaters This Week Offer Love and Adventure
Local theaters showcase Paddy the Next Best Thing with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter at the Paramount. Shanghai Madness stars Spencer Tracy and Fay Wray at the State, with Rasputin and the Empress at the Colonial and Bitter Sweet featuring Anna Neagle at the Town. Shuffle Along arrives for four days at the Iowa. Dr Bull debuts at the Paramount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noel Coward
Anna Neagle
Iowa
Bureau of Missing Persons
Bette Davis
Pat O'Brien
Lewis Stone
Glenda Farrell
Orient
Spencer Tracy
Fay Wray
Rialto
George Arliss
Marion Marsh
Barrymores
Lionel
Ethel
John
Jeff
Eugene Pallette
State Theater
Will Rogers
Dr. Bull
Paramount Theater
Iowa Theater
Fernand Graavey
Tarzan
Janet Gaynor
Warner Baxter
Paddy
Paramount
Gary Cooper stars in One Sunday Afternoon at Paramount
Gary Cooper and Fay Wray headline the Paramount theater lineup with One Sunday Afternoon slated for Wednesday through Friday. The whimsical story also features Neil Hamilton Roscoe Karns and Sam Hardy in supporting roles amid Paddy the Next Best Thing with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter.
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Gary Cooper
Paramount
Will Rogers in Doctor Bull heads to Mount theater Saturday
Will Rogers arrives at the Paramount theater for a Saturday screening of Doctor Bull adapted from James Gould Cozzens The Last Adam. The feature stars Rogers as a town physician whose life reveals the community’s secrets alongside Marian Nixon Ralph Morgan and Andy Devine. Coggon high school elects officers across four classes.
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Will Rogers
Paramount Theater
Marian Nixon
Ralph Morgan
Andy Devine
Bitter Sweet Opens Tuesday at Iowa Theater With New Star
Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet comes to the Iowa Theater for a three day run starting Tuesday. Anna Neagle headlines as a romantic Englishwoman who elopes with a roaming musician and endures hardship in Vienna, delivering a performance touted as star-making and richly sentimental.
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Iowa
Noel Coward
Vienna
Schlick’s
Anna Neagle
Chicago Doctors Observe Sleeping Girl in Coma to Seek Cure
Two hundred physicians from the Aux Plaine Medical Society studied Patricia Maguire, 28, in a nineteen month coma at West Suburban hospital. Dr Eugene Traut led demonstrations as x rays and artificial fever tests failed to wake her, while clinicians seek clues to the mysterious sleep disease.
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Chicago
INS
Aux Plaine Medical Society
Patricia Maguire
Miss Maguire
West Suburban Hospital
Eugene Traut
Miss
Traut
Bureau of Missing Persons depicted in mystery film at Iowa theater
A Friday start for the film Bureau of Missing Persons shows the police bureau handling disappearances from real cases. The production draws on Capt Ayres and Carol Bird with Robert Presnell writing the screenplay based on the captain’s New York unit experiences and broader police study.
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Police Department
Bureau of Missing Persons
Iowa Theater
Bette Davis
Pat O’brien
Lewis Stone
Glenda Farrell
Robert Presnell
John H Ayres
Carol Bird
New York City
New York
Los Angeles
Three Barrymores In Rasputin At Colonial Theater
The Colonial presents Rasputin and the Empress with John Ethel and Lionel Barrymore leading a vast cast. The production showcases a star studded ensemble filling every role with internationally famed artists in a dramatic spectacle of the last days of the Romanoffs.
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Three Barrymores
Rasputin
Colonial Theater
John
Ethel
Lionel Barrymore
Metro-Goldwyn-Masters
Empress
Romanoffs
Blue Boor
Paddy the Next Best Thing shines Janet Gaynor in film
Janet Gaynor stars as Paddy in Paramount's Paddy the Next Best Thing opposite Warner Baxter. The Irish comedy drama follows Paddy as she confronts family ties, love, and a rich husband plot to save the homestead. The program also includes Rhapsody in Blue, a Pathe News reel, and Motor Mania.
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Erin
Janet Gaynor
Paddy
Paramount
Warner Baxter
Miss Gaynor
Baxter
Dublin
Pathe
Shuffle Along comes to Iowa theater for four days
After runs in New York and Chicago the original cast of Shuffle Along arrives at the Iowa theater for October 6 7 8 and 9. Flournoy Miller Lyles Euble Blake Gen eva Washington the Three Sepia Song Birds and the Brown Spots headline a famed Negro musical revue with song dance and comedy.
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Mansfield
New York City
Illinois Theater
Chicago
Iowa Theater
Flournoy Miller
Miller and Lyles
Euble Blake
Geneva Washington
Sweet Singers
Yesteryear
Cook
Miller
Reichstag Firebug Defendants Battle Hunger Strike
Leipz ig German Reichstag fire case opens with Van Der Lubbe and four co defendants on trial. Lubbe refuses food and water as judges question his night of Feb 27 actions. Co defendants include Ernst Torgier George Dimitroff Vassil Taneff and Blagot Poroff Bulgarians.
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Leipzig
Germany
Marinus van der Lubbe
Reichstag
Supreme Court
van der Lubbe
Ernst Torgier
Communist Party
George Dimitroff
Vassil Taneff
Blag
Kansas City Woman Contracts Rare Recurrent Fever From Rat Bite
A Kansas City woman developed a rare recurrent fever after being bitten by a rat. Doctors identified the illness as a rare rat bite–related fever, marking a notable case in local health records.
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Kansas City
Tarzan Film "Tarzan the Fearless" At State Theater
Tarzan the Fearless starring Buster Crabbe opens at the State theater with a midnight show next Saturday. Jacqueline Wells co stars as the explorer's daughter in a tale following Edgar Rice Burroughs jungle adventures and a search for a lost white tribe.
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Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Fearless
Buster Crabbe
Ind
Jacqueline Wells
Doctor Brooks
George Arliss in The King's Vacation at Rialto
George Arliss stars in The King's Vacation at the Rialto for three days starting today. The double feature includes The Eleventh Commandment with Marian Marsh and a tense tale of heirs and a $50 million inheritance. Dick Powell, Patricia Ellis co star. Theo.
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George Arliss
Rialto
Arliss
Dick Powell
Patricia Ellis
Marian Marsh
Theo
Broadway Brevity and news in combined program
Dore Von Eilis Alan Hale Marie Prevost Gloria Shea Arthur Hoyt William V Mong Lee Moran and many others. A Broadway Brevity and news complete this combination program.
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Dore von Eilis
Alan Hale
Marie Prevost
Gloria Shea
Arthur Hoyt
William V. Mong
Lee Moran
Olympic Double Bill Features Cohens And Kellys In Trouble
Olympic presents two features starting today. The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble stars George Sidney and Charlie Mursay as playful co stars amid sea tog wardrobe through a night club yacht restaurant rum boat and seaside cottage. Man Against Woman introduces Lillian Miles in her screen debut opposite Jack Holt with a News comedy and cartoon included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sidney
Charlie Mursray
Jack Holt
Johnny McCloud
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Hello Pop
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Doctor Bull
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George Lyons
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George Atkin
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