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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
14
The Second Shepherd play from the Towneley cycle will be presented on the island plaza between Second and Third avenues Thursday at 8 PM. Performers will use the original script in Old English verse with a wagon stage and torchlight to recreate a 13th century style.
The Thursday show presents an early miracle play about the first Christmas, a comedy with bread farce as its opening and a plot of rustic, hungry shepherds. Donald DeFore stars as Mac the Sheep Stealer with Howard Snyder and others supporting. Mt Mercy choristers, Sister De Lourdes directs, Eleanor Taylor plays organ. After intermission, Good King Wenceslaus is sung, followed by an oyster stew reception at the Hotel Montrose basement workshop.
Testimony from Ottumwa records shows a $12.05 hotel luncheon bill for Mayor W. H. Stepanek and Cedar Rapids official, linked to an ouster proceeding against Mayor E. C. Manning. Stepanek says Manning hosted luncheon guests and paid the check, with no room overnight.
President Roosevelt seeks unification of the vast recovery machinery to coordinate and eliminate duplication. A new national emergency council led by Frank C. Walker will oversee the plan with state directors to assist, aiming to finish within thirty days. The effort emphasizes economy and clear information on relief laws.
The Iowa Senate approved a modification to the Beatty Bennett tax cut, siding 29 to 20 to permit limited tax raises for municipal fire departments. The measure, introduced by Senator George A. Wilson, would let cities levy the same dollar amount for fire protection as in 1930, pending comptroller review.
Mrs. Bessie Burlingham asks police to aid in finding her 15 year old son Ellsworth who left for Roosevelt junior high school at 7 40 a m Tuesday and has not been seen since. He was last seen on school grounds at noon and again after classes. Ellsworth is about 5 feet tall, slender, wearing a light cap a gray mackinaw gray trousers and a blue shirt.
Dr Harold E Mitchell longtime University of Iowa College of Dentistry faculty member resigns after two and a half years as a demonstrator in clinical prosthetic dentistry He will return to Lancaster Missouri January 1 to resume practice Dean Alvin W Bryan announced Dr Lynn C Dirksen of Montezuma was chosen to fill the vacancy and is a 1932 graduate of the Iowa college.
In Antioch Illinois a husband John Pendl 48 and his son Frank 20 died when their home made ice yacht broke through Fox river ice. Wife Mrs Pend warned them not to go out but they ventured forth in the rain. She later saw them in the water and tried to throw a line but the ice collapsed and they disappeared.
Christmas packages fill Cedar Rapids post office keeping parcel post window open until 9 p.m. Tuesday. Window opens at 7 a.m. and will stay open nightly to Christmas Eve. Twenty one extra men hired to assist clerks and carriers. Packages sorted for delivery in the federal building basement.
The St Ludmila School presents its annual Christmas program on Thursday December 21 at 7 30 pm. The program includes Christmas Bells a one act comedy Im one act The Snow Fairies drill and tableaux culminating with scenes While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks The Nativity The Blessed Virgin Saint Joseph Angles and a large cast of pupils and guests.
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