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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1942
Page
5
Hollywood note: Linda Darnell, the Dallas girl, moves into her Beverly Hills apartment and plans a Dallas tryout before Broadway. Darryl Zanuck backs her stage ambitions as she may star in Arthur Hopkins' Walk Softly, with a Dallas repertoire test to spark approval behind the footlights.
Paramount shows The Courtship of Andy Hardy and Mr. and Mrs. North with multiple daily showings. Iowa presents The Kennel Murder Case and Gambling Lady. other venues feature Keep Em Flying and The Perfect Snob, plus Lydia and Fall Dark and Handsome on the Times circuit. Minor note on gull colonies closing line.
A patriotic verse by Edgar A Guest extols service to country. It celebrates fighting men defending freedom from shore to shore, with prayers, schools, families, and rights as the nation’s enduring priorities. The poem notes sacrifice of sons in war and urges all to stand united.
Don Wahn and Phil Baker share a street scene as a six year old narrates fleeing a parental quarrel on Central Park West. A joke about John Nance Garner riffs on public life, with Walter Winchell style reflections on fame being like a cinder in the public eye.
Elsa Maxwell jokes about modeling tanks for the government as Maestro Reisman greets her at a Rainbow Room table. A nearby crowd cites a satirical message about tires while Morning Mail references chorus girls who became notorious and mentions several stars.
Coe College will send three faculty members five students and one graduate to the fifty sixth annual Iowa Academy of Science meeting at Iowa Wesleyan College Mt Pleasant on Friday and Saturday. Dr Ben H Peterson head of chemistry will read papers with three major honors students The Heat Capacity and Heat Fusion of Propionamide by Thomas Brice The Ternary System Acetamide Propionamide Butyramide by Richard Ball The Activity of Aqueous Solutions of Propionamide by Samuel Giovanazzi All are Cedar Rapids seniors Dr Leonard R Wilson also
Reading two student papers by Douglas Klemme on The Glacial Geology of Rock Creek Canyon in the Bear Tooth Mountains and by Charles Kos on Glacial Sediments of the Cedar Rapids Regions. Dr. Robert V. Drexler will present A Preliminary List of Bryophytes of Linn County and A Peculiar Polytrichian. George Bowne reports on Vanishing Virgin Prairie in Cedar Rapids Regions. Also attending: Dr. Warren N. Keck and Dr. Alfred W. Meyer.
Officials said costs will rise for the fall quarter with a three quarter plan. Tuition and fees per quarter rise to 585 to 615, board 75, room 35 to 45, totaling 195 to 205. Three quarters exceed two semester figures by several dollars per category.
New York AP reports Rep. Michael Joseph Kennedy was chosen as the new Tammany Hall leader. He succeeds Christopher D. Sullivan, ousted February 6, in a vote moved by opponent Daniel E. Finn Jr. The tally showed 176 votes for Kennedy and 115 for Finn.
Mrs Leo Powell was elected chairman and Miss Bertha Sargent leader of Cedar Rapids Woman's club dramatic arts. Margaret Grady won city jackstone with 60 girls competing. Wayne Foster elected vice-president of University of Iowa Alumni Association. Judge Thomas Powell named to nominating committee at Central Park Presbyterian meeting. Burning mortgage marked church debt paid at annual congregational meeting. President Harry M. Gage of Coe College to Monticello for Rotary address. Mrs E S Glasier and two others noted.
Three members were chosen to lead the dramatic art department of the Woman's club with roles as chairman, leader, and secretary-treasurer respectively.
Reports today confirm the giant liner Titanic struck an iceberg with more than 1 300 people perishing. E Clyde Robins of Cedar Rapids resigns as secretary of the Iowa University Alumni bureau to study for a Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Dr Richard Lord elected president of the Cedar Rapids Art association at today’s meeting. Amy Sinclair named first vice president Elizabeth Cook second vice president Mrs C C Loomis secretary and Kent C Ferman treasurer.
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