Entertainment : Gnomes, ladies of history coming to Palace

What’s in a gnome?

After two R-rated Oscar pics, and one PG-13-that-should-have-been-R film, it’s finally time to break out the boosters and 3D glasses! “Gnomeo and Juliet “ in RealD 3D plays the Palace Friday, March 25 through Thursday, March 31 at 7 p.m.

Please note our added matinees on Saturday, March 26, Monday, March 28 and, due to no school in the Vinton-Shellsburg district, Tues, March 29 at 2 p.m.

“Gnomeo and Juliet” is rated G! Take advantage, parents! That’s a rare occurrence these days.

Be sure to “brush up your Shakespeare” (Who knows that musical? Anyone? Anyone? Greg Walston?) before attending this amusing and surprisingly reminiscent animated movie. If you haven’t studied Romeo and Juliet – tsk tsk - at least pick up the Cliffs Notes or check out SparksNotes online. Word on the street is that this movie is cute for kids, but downright funny for adults.

A gnome by any other name…

On Verona Street, the neighboring gardens at duplex 2B and Not 2B (Hey, wait, isn’t that from Hamlet?) are at war. However, that doesn’t stop Gnomeo (blue gnome, voice of James McAvoy) and Juliet (red gnome, voice of Emily Blunt), from falling in love. Sigh.

Alas, one can only hope, due to this movie’s mild rating, that our two gnomes meet with a happier fate than is told in that story of woe that was Shakespeare’s Juliet and her Romeo.

My apologies to the Bard.

FREE SPECIAL SHOWING AT THE PALACE

March is Women’s History Month and to honor the contributions of women to BentonCountythe Palace will screen “Her Own Story” on Friday, March 25th at 4:30 pm. The video project was condensed from the Benton County Women’s Oral History Project completed in 1984 – 1986.

Interviewers include Lois Banse, Ann Harrison, Dee Hensing, Jane LaGrange, Bill Meigs, Lauretta Rice, Meg Walker, and Julie Zimmer.

The ten women who shared their life stories include Jennie Koch Beck of Keystone/Belle Plaine, Bess Shurtliff Burrows of Belle Plaine, Nira Primmer (Narber, Knapp) Geiger of Vinton, Freida Brehm Geiken of Vinton, Ruth Congwar Mumford of Fremont Township, Dorothy Wiegand (Pollock) Salle of, Mt. Auburn, Alvena Selken Schroeder of rural Keystone, Allegra Bush (Grady) Schueler, Gertrude Smith of (Cayton, England) rural Vinton and the renowned Esther Williams of Vinton.