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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1933
Page
2
Richard Dix stars in No Marriage Ties at the Uptown Friday and Saturday. A newspaper sports writer and drinker helps cover a home with an unwritten rule of no marriage ties. He rises in advertising and courts a beauty salon owner before deciding he loves Miss Elizabeth Allen. She goes to Europe and returns to Dix.
In the First National picture Mind Reader at the Palace Tuesday and Wednesday Warren William and Constance Cummings star as an amusing pair. Cummings sparks the romance while William portrays Chandra the Great a magician and mind reader exposing tricks of fortune tellers.
Eight American Catholic missionaries trapped in Yuanchow since June 27 after rebels seized the town remain out of contact. American consular authorities request Chinese military aid to arrange a truce to lift the siege and permit their escape.
Attractions include Tugboat Annie with Evan, Robertson, Young, Darro, Pennick and Hurst. The Unwritten Law features Greta Nissen and Skeet Gallagher with Pathe News and a Friday Saturday showing. Also listed are Century of Progress, No Marriage Ties, Shipping About, The Three Musketeers on stage, and The Romba Rockets.
Palace theater launches a contest during Paramount week September 3 to 9 where audiences identify 18 stars shown only from behind or with faces hidden. Viewers must write names plus a 25 word description for each star and submit weekly. prizes include year, six month, and three month theater passes.
Victor Jory stars as a young surgeon who proves his innocence of murder by risking his life. The Fox drama takes him from an Africa seaport to a mission, with shifting loyalties and two women as pivotal choices.
Curious movie fans can see how talking pictures are made as The Unwritten Law shows at Up Town theater. The Majestic picture moves from studio sets to an ocean liner, revealing production details and backstage work that fans rarely witness.
Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts star in a gay Universal farce about bashful newlyweds on a trip to Niagara Falls. Supporting cast includes Shirley Grey Alexander Carr Laura Hope Crews Rollo Lloyd and George Hackathorne. Directed by Sam Taylor.
Critics praise Schwab and De Sylva musical comedy Take a Chance now at the Erlanger theater in Windy City after its Broadway run. The show features Olsen and Johnson Ethel Merman Jack Whiting Barbara Newberry and a Ben Bernie orchestra with broad praise for its music humor and staging. The Chicago Tribune hails it as a new high in musical theater and a crowd pleaser for the fair audience.
Report from the Uptown theater notes that during the Columbia drama The Wrecker on location players faced risks and a doctor and nurse stood by for safety on set. The ominous warning was issued twice as filming proceeded.
Eddie Cantor headlines Whoopee a Goldwyn Ziegfeld musical riot shown Sunday and Monday at the Palace. The production cost nears two million dollars with 74 scene changes and 512 costume changes filmed across Zion National Park and other locations. Thornton Freeland directs this technically ambitious talking picture from the Ziegfeld team.
Popular Stars Dressler and Beery reunite in Tugboat Annie a lively Northwest waterfront tale. Dressler plays a bold tugboat captain and Beery an expendable father whose sacrifice saves his son in a ship wreck. The film features races rescues and comic mishaps.
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