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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1935
Page
5
The Iowa theater resumes its winter season this week with Bill Hogan and his orchestra leading the opener. The program includes several acts and the feature film Two Sinners on screen, delivering a lively start to Cedar Rapids entertainment.
Henry Fonda and Janet Gaynor star in The Farmer Takes a Wife at the Paramount Tuesday. Kay and George lead The Goose and the Gander at the Iowa new. Jade Hogan with Hellyweed orchestra perform vaudeville Tuesday. Martha Sleeper and Otto Kruger appear in Two Sinners at the Iowa Tuesday. Chester Morris and Sally Eilers in Pursuit at the State. Greta Garbo and Frederic March in Anna Karenina at the Paramount next Friday. Amos and Andy in The Big Broadcast of 1936 at the Paramount now.
Col W de Basil's Ballet of Monte Carlo brings a 100 plus company to Iowa theater for an early date. Notables include Leonide Massine Irina Baronova Tamara Toumanova Tatiana Riabouchinska and others with a 55 dancer corps plus surrounding family members and a permanent orchestra. The troupe travels by six pullmans four baggage cars and a diner for each railroad jump as it adds new productions to a vast repertoire.
The Iowa circuit features Goose and the Gander and The Public Menace at the current house, with Warren William in Case of the Lucky Legs next Friday. The Big Broadcast of 1936 plays at the Paramount, Tuesday brings The Farmer Takes a Wife, Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina opening Friday. The Baer-Louis fight has authentic stills with Pursuit on screen. Shirley Temple headlines Our Little Girl at the Palace, Eddie Cantor in Roman Scandals at the Olympic.
Karloff headlines The Bride Of Frankenstein at the Rialto with Elsa Lanchester Colin Clive Valeria Hobson and Una O Connor in a vivid horror study of the subconscious mind. A second feature Swell Head stars Dickie Moore Wallace Ford and Barbara Kent. A comedy and musical acts round out the bill.
A ringside seat at the Baer Louis bout is the thrill the State theater offers its patrons. Blow by blow, the four complete rounds of the fight are brought to the screen. One of the season’s most entertaining stories is told in the feature.
Chester Morris and Sally Eilers lead a bright romance in Pursuit as they spirit a guardianship child out of state by motor. They dodge motor patrols, hide in auto camps and barns, and roam the Mexican border with Scotty Becket as the child and C Henry Gordon aiding as a detective figure. Henry Travers adds comic relief.
The event schedule lists Doing and a Fox News segment completing the lineup for the program. The brief notes indicate final acts to close the broadcast. Local audiences are invited to tune in for the concluding segments.
Eddie Cantor stars in Roman Scandals with Ruth Etting Gloria Stuart David Manners and the Goldwyn Girls at the Olympic Theater starting Sunday for four days The double feature also includes The Iron Duke starring George Arliss plus a comedy cartoon and news segment The program promises heightened drama humor and entertainment value for filmgoers.
October brings outstanding films to Iowa programs with The Last Days of Pompeii leading the lineup. Also featured are Shipmates Forever with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, and The Three Musketeers returning as a classic on the talking screen starring Walter Abel and Paul Lukas.
Paramount theater schedules a mid week release of The Farmer Takes A Wife for a three day run starting next Tuesday. Starring Janet Gaynor Henry Fonda Charles Bickford Slim Summerville and Jane Withers the film portrays simple folk near the Erie Canal in a vivid slice of early American life.
Shirley Temple headlines the Palace program with Our Little Girl shown today through Wednesday. The story follows a child star who helps rebuild a broken dream after her parents separate amid a domestic rift. Joel McCrea Rosemary Ames Lyle Talbot and Erin O'Brien Moore co star. The second feature is the musical Hooray For Love.
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