Diabolique Seals Status as Top Foreign Film
French suspense picture Diabolique directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot stars Simone Signoret Vera Clouzot and Paul Meurisse. The Times review lauds its shocking ending strong performances and refined direction while noting it is for adults only and not suitable for children.
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Theater Time Catalogs Thursday Screenings
The listing shows multiple theaters and movie times for Thursday including Paramount with Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and shorts. Iowa with Steel Jungle and Our Miss Brooks. State with Rock Around the Clock and Black Jack Ketchum. Diabolique at Times. Palace with Spoilers and Hold Back Tomorrow. Marion with Trouble with Harry and shorts. Co. Drive-In Tall Man Riding and Take the High Ground. Twixt Town Overland and Betrayed.
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Swiss girl lands film break with Robert Taylor in Hollywood
Elizabeth Mueller, a Basle girl, won a co star role opposite Robert Taylor in The Power and the Prize. Producer Henry Koster spotted her in a German magazine after six German films and stage work. She faced fear of flying and rushed to depart, leaving part of her wardrobe behind.
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Underpaid German film stars vent war era woes
A slender young actress who played a ballerina in a German film says most film companies in Germany struggle with bankruptcy and actresses are underpaid. She notes lingering postwar hardship, limited TV time, and reliance on movies for entertainment, naming Grace Kelly as preferred by Germans and Maria Schell as a top femine star.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Lillian Gish
Beacon Wax Floors Gleam Like New, Reader Says
A reader extols Beacon Wax for preserving floor shine without damage. The note praises the wax’s hard gleam and reliability, implying household use and satisfaction with the product’s results.
The Steel Jungle and Our Miss Brooks at the Iowa
Warner Brothers presents The Steel Jungle a prison drama starring Perry Lopez Beverly Garland Walter Abel and Kenneth Tobey at the Iowa theater The Our Miss Brooks segment features Eve Arden with Gale Gordon Don Porter and Robert Rockwell The review notes a contrast between the grim film and the light TV style with Arden as Miss Brooks and Boynton amid changes in tone.
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Eve Arden
Gale Gordon
Don Porter
Robert Rockwell
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Floats Entered By Eight Groups In Clean-Up Parade
Eight groups have entered floats for Saturday’s Clean-Up Parade announced by Chairman Fred Miles. Participants include St Patrick’s and Cleveland schools Camp Fire Girls Boy Scouts Chloris No II Cedar Valley African Violet Society Cedar Center Junior Garden and the Salvation Army. Four beauty queens representing the week’s four phases will ride in convertibles. A Sokol tumblers group will punctuate the parade with Sokol dancers in Czech May costumes around two giant Maypoles. Fire trucks sanitation rigs the 40 and 8’s decorated French box car also appear.
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Clean-Up Week Parade Adds Heavy Equipment and Music
Martin-Roasa and Chalmers provide heavy cleanup gear for the parade. Cedar Rapids Cadets and Moose Girls Drum and Bugle corps led by Ellen Moody perform. Salvation Army collects discarded refrigerators to prevent hazards, inviting public donations by phone. R A Koehn notes a city ordinance bans dumping unmodified units. Jon Carlson stars as Herbert Philbrick on I Led 3 Lives Thursday on Channel 9 at 8 30 p m.
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Chalmers
Cedar Rapids Cadets
Moose Girls
Ellen Moody
University of Iowa Band
R. A. Koehn
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Herbert Philbrick
Channel 9
El Salvador and Honduras to negotiate new commerce treaty
Finance Minister Mario Hector Salazar announced that El Salvador and Honduras will negotiate a new commerce treaty to replace the 1918 agreement, updating terms and relations between the two Central American nations.
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