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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1978
Page
11
Hammer's Count Dracula returns with his vampire bride in a film at the Iowa Theatre rated R for underage audiences without accompaniment. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star as the notorious count in a long lineage of reinventions.
The review discusses Hammer Film Productions 1970s Dracula horror in London featuring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It notes feeble plotting, implied reincarnation, heavy on blood and breasts, with the era’s standard effects and the stars carrying the film, plus a local Iowa Theatre furnace update.
Cedar Rapids artist Connie Gross presents 15 oils, acrylics, watercolors and drawings featuring Iowa’s Mesquakie Indians at Mercy Hospital. The exhibit runs through Jan 31 and marks her final Midwest show before moving her career to the East.
Bob Harris, former Cedar Rapids Symphony manager, becomes first manager of the Orchestra of Illinois, a 60 member Chicago group serving the Lyric Opera and Grant Park concerts. The musicians formed the cooperative to extend the season to 52 weeks and focus on operatic repertoire with guest soloists. Harris begins January 3 and notes the effort aims to create a niche smaller than the Chicago Symphony. He describes the venture as challenging but exciting.
Charles Bowman, an English-born editor famed as a firebrand in 65 years ago at the Ottawa Citizen, died Wednesday in Nanaimo British Columbia at age 95.
A five day workshop led by Wilton potter Karl Christiansen is set for January 8 through 12 at Ambroz Recreation Center. Enrollment caps at 12 per session with 1 to 4 pm and 7 to 10 pm slots. Sponsored by the Ambroz Arts Advisory Board the course costs 30 dollars and targets both beginners and advanced students.
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