Far-Off Hills Play Delights Cedar Rapids Audience
The Community Players staged The Far Off Hills at the Community Playhouse with strong cast work led by Mont Healy and Alma Grover. The comedy drew smiles and applause as Marian Clancy and her family navigate romance and nun ambitions during the three night run.
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Community Playhouse
Cedar Rapids Community Players
Clancy
Glencarrig
Ireland
Marian Clancy
Patrick Clancy
Community Players
Almont Healy
Susie Tynan
Susie
Alma Grover
Frances McLaughlin
Mary Smrchek
Ducky Clancy
Patrick
Marian
Juliet
J. W.) Snowden
Ellen Nolan
Lucille Funkey
Picture Star Answers Puzzle And Curtain Raiser
Bill Brown and Harold Mahoney are portrayed by Arnold Rabe and others in a Christmas-themed stage piece. The curtain raiser The Workhouse Ward, by Jerome Gearhart, centers on two Irish hospital ward neighbors arguing over care and separation.
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Bill Brown
Kid Sisters
Marian
Harold Mahoney
Arnold Rabe
Harold
Jerome Gearhart
Bill Fieseler
Harlan Endsley
Ruth Henningsen
Artists Split Over Rental Fees for Museum Exhibits
Cedar Rapids hosts a clash of ideas over renter policy as painter Harry D. Jones refuses a $2 charge for his works Elisha and It Cant Happen Here. Bob White and fellow artists back rental fees to stabilize artists, while Jones favors refunds or memberships and conference with directors to advance art.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Art
Little Gallery
Harry D. Jones
Elisha
Bob White
White
Everett Jeffrey
Don
Criss Glasell
Louis Pelzer
Iowa City
Chicago
Jones
Chicago Art Institute
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Des Moines
Man Who Performed Fake Operation At Grinnell Sentenced
DES MOINES AP Post Office Inspector C P Donovan reports two men were arrested and one sentenced for running a glimmer racket in Iowa. William Londerson 51 of Chicago was sentenced in Montezuma to seven years after pleading guilty to obtaining money by false pretenses for a fake eye operation on Grinnell farmer John Schwab. Schwab testified that Londerson was aided by Edward Robinson 52 of Kingston NY who is jailed in Polk County.
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Des Moines
Post Office
C. P. Donovan
Iowa
William Londerson
Chicago
Montezuma
Londergon
John Schwab
Grinnell
Donovan
Robinson
Earl Shields
Newton
Eye specialists nearly swindle farmer. license number aired
A farmer outsmarted two eye specialists who tried swindling him. He obtained their automobile license number and broadcast it to highway patrols, leading to the arrest of the two men near Carroll, Iowa.
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Carroll
Labor Mass Meeting to Be Held Wednesday
Finley P. Bell of Chicago a former federal employee will speak Wednesday night Dec 2 in the Z C B I hall on collective bargaining and unionization under the Midland West Union of All Packing House Workers No 1. Open meeting invited to all workers for discussion.
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Finley P. Bell
Chicago
Z. C
Rowley Fire Station Destroyed by Blaze
The Rowley fire station and fighting equipment were destroyed by a blaze discovered around 1:30 a.m. by Kenneth Beatty and Leonard Caldwell. Fire threatened the south side of the business district as a tank of oil and chemicals on the fire truck exploded, fueling the flames.
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the Gazette
Rowley
Kenneth Beatty
Leonard Caldwell
Explosion Injures Officials and Sparks Fire Engine Move
Postmaster William Rehberg and merchant Frank Hare were injured when an oil heater exploded sending people fleeing. The blast caused a burst of smoke and damage, with the origin identified as an oil heater. Insurance covers the loss. Mayor Sloan called a special council meeting to authorize purchase of a new fire engine for the town.
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William Rehberg
Frank Hare
Sloan
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G. H. Cornwell
John H. Fortune
A. H. Boileau
Wallace Darling
Betty Beardsley
Patricia Burkhalter
Helen Larimer
Ted Sealy
Franklin S. Battin
Bette Reitz
Bernard Kehoe
Dean Stauffacher
Katherine Stark
William Fieseler
Joe Cohn
Kenneth Kent
Eleanor Cook
Richard Miller
Elizabeth Carey
Edward M. Soboda, Jr
Eleanor Taylor
Edna van Papplendam
Marian Galloway
F. D. R. Delight Simpson
Radio City Special Lovers’ Nabisco Pecan
State Theater
Virginia Third Avenue
Waldorf
Russell's Velvet
Standard Bakery
Telegram
Virginia
Florida
Virginia Cafe
Third Ave
First St
Istries
Third Avenue
Cedar Valley Dairy
Mt. Vernon Road
Cedar Rapids Electric Supply Company
Third Ave. SE
Grocery and Market
High Life
Hach Bros. Distributors
Council of Ten
Venice
Star Laundry CO
Fourth Avenue
Dial
ATLAS
Kate
Prager
Tel
Yiccks Vaporus
Armstrong’s
Big Daylight Clothing Department
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