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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1977
Page
8
Les Zachers notes Victor Borge delivered a 244 minute comedy stage show at the Paramount Theatre for a packed audience. He staged clever banter with microphone and piano while lampooning classics and featuring Marylyn Mulvey in coloratura arias and a cute stagehand page-turner bit.
Jim and Oswald discuss anniversaries and past bridge hands. The dialogue covers a 59 point hand, 21 or 22 points expected, a six level slam, and a diamond luck turn with West revealing spades and a six card ending with two diamonds.
The Saturday list shows showtimes for multiple venues including Iowa Audrey Rose World Jaws Plaza Stage 1 2 3 4 Eastown Collins Twin West Twin East and features titles such as Fun With Dick and Jane Airport 717 Slap Shot Black Sunday Silver Streak Network The Late Show The Food of the Gods Squirm Teasers Girls in Trouble The Rape Killers The Abductors with sing le and double feature times in evening hours.
Transcendental Meditation program at 4245 First Avenue SE offers a chartered bus trip to Maharishi International University in Fairfield for the visitors weekend. Includes campus tour lunch science of creative intelligence lecture and concerts by Paul Jones and Nina Falk. Bus departs 9 30 a.m. returns 7 p.m. Registration limited. Call 366 4554.
In San Francisco the USO will honor Pearl Bailey as Woman of the Year at a Friday dinner and dance at the Fairmont hotel. The event costs 100 per person and proceeds fund USO programs for armed forces entertainment and services.
A Vermont reader asks how many points a positive response showed in the original Vanderbilt Club convention. Harold Vanderbilt stated the original convention did not use a point count and relied on two quick tricks. The estimate ranges from 7 to 10 high card points with 8 as a reasonable approximation.
The 1976 presidential debates the bicentennial and Olympic coverage highlighted the George Foster Peabody awards announced in Athens Georgia. CBS and ABC led with ten awards among networks and individuals.
The National Ballet of Canada has raised over 256000 and received 170000 in promises toward a 636000 campaign goal by June 30. Ballerina Karen Kain personally signed over 1000 fundraising letters. On this date in 1917 China entered World War I against Germany.
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