Cinema Listings Offer Holiday Variety in Cedar Rapids
A festive program features Hansel and Gretel with the Kinemins and producer Michael Myerberg, plus Africa Adventure. Also showing are The She-Wolf, The Atomic Kid, Sign of the Pagan, Reap the Wild Wind, Return to Treasure Island, and Athena with Gog. Co-features accompany each main attraction at local theaters.
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Hansel and
Gretel
Hansel and Gretel
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Anna Russell
Mildred Dunnock
Frank Rogier
Constance Brigham
Apollo Boys
Robert C. Ruark
Iowa
Kerima
Mickey Rooney
Attila the Hun
Paramount
Jeff Chandler
Jack Palance
Ludmilla Tcherina
Rita Gam
Chandler
Miss Tcherina
Palance
Attila
Cecil B. DeMille
John Wayne
Susan Hayward
Ray Milland
Paulette Goddard
Twenty Four Years as a Star Ethel Merman Still Sees Broadway Magic
Ethel Merman, now Mrs. Robert Six, enters her 25th year as a star with no plan to retire from show business. She lives in Cherry Hills Colorado with her husband and two children, values family, and continues to perform in movies and television after a famed Broadway career.
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Ethel Merman
York
Ethel Meriman
Robert Six
Denver
Colo
Ethel
Robert
Cherry Hills
Miss Merman
Central Park
Astoria
New York
Queensborough
Merman
Colorado
Smith
Robert Levitt
Bob
Coney Island
Hollywood
Alexander
Walter Lang
Irving Berlin
Brisson's Las Vegas Luck Fails Producer on Pageant Shoot
Producer Freddy Brisson took 195 people to Las Vegas for a week of filming The Girl Rush. Local extras had to be flown in under a union contract, with many housed at the Flamingo Hotel. A string of mishaps from jail breaks to fires and illnesses disrupted production, prompting Brisson to return home early after a tense, unlucky week.
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Brisson
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Hollywood
Flamingo Hotel
Flamingo
Abe Schiller
The
Sheriff's
Rosalind Russell Arives
Jimmy Gleason
Marion Lorne
Gloria de Haven
Broadway Openings Preview Lunatics and Witness for Prosecution
Broadway critics praise two new plays Lunatics and Lovers by Sidney Kingsley and Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie. Lively farce vs suspenseful mystery draw strong notices. Jennifer Jones debuts Portrait of a Lady Tuesday, while Helen Hayes stars in What Every Woman Knows Wednesday at City Center.
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Broadway
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Agatha Christie
Buddy Hackett
Dennis King
Sheila Bond
Kingsley
Brooks Atkinson
New York Times
John McClain
The
New York Journal-American
Walter Kerr
Herald- Tribune
Jennifer Jones
Helen Hayes
Barrie
City Center
Theater Times Today Show Schedules by Paramount Iowa State Palace Marion
The Sunday listings from Theater Time include matinee and evening showings for Paramount Iowa State Palace and Marion venues. Notable films: Reap the Wild Wind She Wolf Atomic Kid Return to Treasure Island Secret of Outlaw Flats Three Coins in the Fountain No Escape Duel in the Jungle 99 River Street Four Guns to the Border Seon My Lovely with various times and shorts.
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Jeanne Crain
Dana Andrews
David Farrar
Palace
Garnet
Paramount
Iowa
State
Treasure Island
Outlaw Flats
River Street
Marion
Radio broadcasting begins in 1920 with Detroit and Pittsburgh
In 1920 radio broadcasting started as stations in Detroit and Pittsburgh began transmitting. The development marks the early era of commercial and experimental radio in the United States.
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