Melody Cruise at Palace Two Day Showing
The RKO film Melody Cruise plays at the Palace theater on Tuesday and Wednesday featuring Charlie Ruggles Phil Harris Greta Nissen and Helen Mack. Director Mark Sandrich calls it an innovation in screen musical production using 36 beauties as background pulchritude whose songs blend into the story and musical dialogue replaces spoken lines. Charlie Ruggles leads a cast of comedy favorites in the sophisticated frivolity of the plot.
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Palace Theater
Charlie Ruggles
Phil Harris
Greta Nissen
Helen Mack
Mark Sandrich
Iowa Office to Be Abandoned as Trade Office Closes
Des Moines field office of the commerce department will close on July 15. Four staff jobs will be cut, with a cooperative office formed with local business groups to continue trade information services. The move aims to save $325000 annually while preserving essential support for businesses.
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Journal Washington Bureau
Washington
Des Moines
Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Commerce
Commerce Department
Iowa
Association of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce
Board of Trade
Keokuk
Gas Tax Decline Reported in Iowa Revenues
Iowa state gasoline tax receipts for the fiscal year ending today show a slump of more than 1.18 million dollars below the prior period. Total collections reached 10.548 million, with 5.277 million to primary highways, 3.522 million to secondary roads, and 1.749 million to other funds.
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Iowa
Des Moines
L. J. Wegman
Vampire Bat cast features Dr von Niemann and Mies Wray
The article lists Dr von Niemann and laboratory assistant Mies Wray in The Vampire Bat with a cast of horror film veterans. Dwight Frye highlights his best works, and several stars from Frankenstein Dracula and related mysteries are noted for past successes. Maude Eburne and Melvyn Douglas are cited among early screen appearances and rising leads.
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von Niemann
Mies Wray
Dwight Frye
Dracula
Frankenstein
Liorel Belmore
Robert Frazer
Harrison Greene
Rue Morgue
Maude Eburne
Melvyn Douglas
Gloria Swanson
Liberty Granted in Slaying Case Ties to Hazel Ridout
Justice Bartley discharged Hazel Ridout of Creston 36 of charges as accessory to an assault with intent to kill after the fatal shooting of Agent Harry Elliott by her husband Claude Ridout 38. The case stemmed from the June 22 gun battle near Creston and subsequent vigilante pursuit. Ridout’s wife testified she did not aid in the attack and only covered her face during the pistol exchange.
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Oskaloosa
J. E. Bartley
Hazel Ridout
Creston
Claude Ridout
Harry Elliott
Des Moines
A. A. Murphy
Spencer
Liquor Bureau
Iowa Commodity Index Turns Lower
Des Moines reports a drop in the Iowa commodity price index for the period May 15 to June 15 with corn down one cent per bushel and barley down three cents. Hog and calf prices fell while lambs rose. Poultry and egg prices declined amid drought damage to potatoes. Leslie M. Carl notes these changes in the livestock and grain sectors.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Road funding allocations in prior fiscal year
The report shows allocations to primary highways of 5,966,186.48 dollars and to secondary roads of 4,114,000 dollars in the previous fiscal year.
International House at Palace features star-studded spoof
A large cast led by Peggy Hopkins Joyce W C Fields Rudy Vallee and Bela Lugosi performs in a musical comedy set in Wu Hu China. The plot centers on Dr Wong aradioscope a gadget mixing television and magic as various suitors compete for love and fortune in a riotous comedy with Burns and Allen and Baby Rose Marie among the players.
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Vermagen
Paramount
International House
Palace Theater
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
W. C. Fields
Rudy Vallee
Stuart Erwin
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Sari Maritza
Col Omenta
Budd
Cab Calloway
Orchestra
Baby Rose Marie
Bela Lugosi
Lena Andre
Sterling Holoway
Franklin Pangborn
Ridmund Breese
Lumsden Hare
Wu-Hu
China
Fields
Dr. Wong
Peggy Hopkies
Joyce
Peggy
Kansas City
Burns and
Allen
Tomorrow Turns Back at Selwyn Theater Chicago
Century of Progress season presents Marceline Englander’s two act comedy drama Tomorrow Turns Back at the Selwyn Theater Chicago. The plot follows Jane Kingsley a modern woman whose lover rejects wedlock and a sophisticated daughter who shares the modern view, as all three falter in their beliefs at a crucial moment.
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Century of Progress
Selwyn Theater
Chicago
Marceline Englander
Jane Kingsley
Vampire Bat Featured At Owl Show And Stage Acts
George E. Stone Dwight Frye and Robert Frazer star in The Vampire Bat. The Devil Horse serial runs next. Owl Show presents Hold Em Jail. The Don Dixon Company performs on stage.
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George E. Stone
Dwight Frye
Robert Frazer
the Devil Horse
Don Dixon Company
Supernatural at Palace Thursday thrills audiences
The Paramount picture Supernatural plays Thursday at the Palace theater with Carole Lombard in Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde style occult roles. Spirits rise from tables and voices speak from the void as it presents phenomena tied to Lodge and Conan Doyle. Friday and Saturday feature Life in the Raw and Tom and Jerry with more attractions to be announced.
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Tom and Jerry
Owl Show
Wheeler and Woolsey
Paramount
Mr. Hyde
Carole Lombard
Victor
Edward Halperin
Reunion in Vienna Shown At Uptown With John Barrymore
John Barrymore stars in Reunion in Vienna Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Robert E. Sherwood Broadway hit. Barrymore plays Archduke Rudolf returning to Vienna to relive royal memories. Diana Wynyard co stars as Elena the Viennese beauty.
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John Barrymore
Vienna
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Robert E. Sherwood
Uptown
Barrymore
Hapsburg
Rudolf
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Rasputin
Diana Wynyard
Fontanne
Elena
Miss Wynyard
World Gone Mad film targets big bankers in indictment
The World Gone Mad plays Tuesday to Thursday at the Up town theater. Pat O'Brien stars as a reporter chasing the district attorney’s murder truth while Evelyn Brent Neil Hamilton Mary Brian and Louis Calhern fill the supporting cast in a drama accusing finance firms of exploiting investors and fueling poverty.
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Roosevelt
Uptown Theater
Pat O’brien
Evelyn Brent
Neil Hamilton
Mary Brian
Louis Calhera
Actress hailed for career defining role in new portrayal
A performance described as the finest opportunity of her career marks a pivotal moment. The project is anticipated to elevate her standing in the industry and draw strong critical attention.
Sailor's Luck Opens at A-Muse-U Theater This Sunday
In Sailor's Luck James Dunn and Sally Eilers star as a carefree god and the quick tempered girl in a lively romance. Their chemistry mirrors Bad Girl in triumph and humor as they meet by chance and face a whirlwind of misadventures and separation.
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Fox
James Dunn
Sally Eilera
Dunn
Sally Eilers
Miss Eilers
Sailor's Luck Enjoys Rapid Production and Natural Cast
The film Sailor's Luck reunites two sailors from a quarrel in a climactic exchange of entertainment. Dunn and Misa Eilers are praised as natural actors. Sammy Cohen returns as the principal comic, recalling his What Price Glory role.
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United States Navy
Dunn
Misa Eilers
Sammy Cohen
Longest Shakespeare Word Noted in Love's Labour's Lost
The record states the line about the longest word honorificabilitudinitatibus appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. It highlights the famed term as a linguistic curiosity from the Elizabethan play.
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Melody Cruise
Liberty
With Sammy Cohen
Davenport
Windward
Pathe
Tuneful
Hilary
Paland
Chicago Theater
Maryella Fuller
Carole Lom
A Museu
Victor Jory
Pathe News
Joel McCrea
Marian Marsh
Graham McNamee
Katharine Hepburn
Billie Burke
Fox News
Buck Jones
Barbera
Sundown Rider
Palace
New York
Sun
Esther Ralston
Basil Rathbone
Celfonhane
Peggy Hopkins
Sari
Rudy Valle
Col. Stoopnagle
Budd Maritza Calloway
Lugcos
Rose Marie
Action
Devil Horse
the Pagan Lady
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