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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1944
Page
10
NADINE SUBOTNIK notes a series debut in the 3:30 to 4 p.m. slot featuring two Met winners each week. Wilfred Pelletier will conduct a 50 piece orchestra with Leonard Warren and Frances Greer performing this week. The program spans opera to popular and ties to Metropolitan Auditions of the Air.
A dense listing of morning and afternoon radio programs across stations WMT WGN KXEL WHO WHO and others. Entries include church services news music talk and variety shows with times spanning 6:30 to late evening.
Radio program grid shows a full day of broadcasts across WHO WMT WGN KXEL and MXEL. It lists time slots for news music drama and talk segments with hosts and characters such as Helen Tren News Jack Berch Johnny Botts Ed Sullivan Portia’s Life and Lorenzo Jones, among others, slated through 9 p.m. Local stations feature Children’s and religious programs, markets and farm reports, and entertainment segments.
Glamorous Costello twins join Earl Carrolls Vanities at the Iowa theater on Tuesday April 265 to headline a variety bill. The act features acrobatic dancers and a lineup including Seiler and Seabold, Barbara LaRene, Barbara and Dardy Moffett, Burt Jason, Harry Blue and Bob Robson plus the Three Sailors. Richard Dix stars in The Whistler in the screen feature.
A Cedar Rapids Broadway hit arrives in Cedar Rapids featuring Edith Atwater and Paul McGrath as a professor and his wife with Dickie Tyler and Joan Shepard as two young juveniles. The play by Gow and D Usseau centers on a German boy living with the professor. Reserved seating goes on sale at the box office.
Lee Flynn performs a comedy song while Ann Sheridan shapes a bevy of schoolgirls in a skit about love being made not born. Bogart, de Havilland, Garfield, Lupino, Shore and Smith top the cast with a companion Leather Burners western, starring Hopalong Cassidy.
Claudette stars as conscience-stricken lead with Jim as her assistant. Oka Chase Richard Hayden Paul McGrath and June Havoc join the cast. Companion feature Fall In stars William Tracy and Jean Porter, News completes the bill.
Gerald Max Kauffman a former Chicago Bund leader and brother in law of the dean of Hitler sabotage schools won his bid to stay in the United States An advisory jury in a landmark case recommended against revoking his citizenship Judge John P Barnes endorsed the ruling The government had accused Kauffman of disloyal statements and Bund association
Paramount presents a wartime drama featuring Dana Andrews Richard Conte Farley Granger as a fearless U S flyer squad put on trial by Japanese captors for murder not as POWs. The film promises vengeance and high tension.
In Minneapolis the Farmer-Laborites voted to dissolve and join the Democrats under a new banner named the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. The move ends the third party's independent run and consolidates liberal forces in the state.
Gypsy Rose Lee, former strip teaser, has signed a five year contract with International Pictures. Leo Spitz, chairman of the film company's board of directors, announced Saturday.
Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz, Fritz Sortner, Ludwig Stossel and William Trenk appear in a page 4 film note. At the State, Jane Eyre stars Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine and Margaret O'Brien, telling Bronte's tale of Jane's love for Rochester and the mansion’s haunting. A companion feature is Always a Bridesmaid with the Andrews Sisters and cast.
A snippet lists evening radio times and program notes for Chicago and regional stations including WGN and WMT. Items mention hosts GN D. Courtney and B. Drummond, and segments on news, music, and a program “Sportfieht Blondie” with other short listings and times around 9:15 to 10:30 p.m.
Gertrud Diamond, Cedar Rapids native, recalls 14 months in Paramount films as a stand in and bit player. She describes long makeup routines for blue costumes, near fatal headwear, and the dream sequence in Lady in the Dark. Her husband serves overseas, and daughter Daphne stays with grandparents.
A collage of wartime comic humor and personal notes from soldiers, editors, and camps. Jokes, quips and letters from Fort Niagara Fort Belvoir Camp Livingston Moffett Field and others reflect home front life during WWII with lighthearted exchanges, shortages, and morale content.
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