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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1945
Page
21
Radio personality Jack Benny headlines a live broadcast before fans in St. Joseph highlighting a lighthearted program. The event showcases Benny’s signature humor and audience interaction as part of a touring radio appearance.
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports Benny Benny will broadcast at 6 p.m. from St Joseph Civic Auditorium over NBC and WHO to 4000 blood donors, with The Benny gang and guest star Jane Wyman. A second live show follows for another 4000 donors featuring Mary Livingstone and the cast. Several other radio programs of the day are listed.
Program grid for Sunday February 18 1945 and Monday February 10 1945 listing morning to late evening shows. Entries include WMT KXEL WHO WGN and EXEL stations with religious, music, drama, news and public affairs programs featuring hosts and program titles across multiple networks.
A dense list of radio programs and time slots across stations WGN WMAQ WHO WMT KXEL HO WHOS KXEE detailing headliners such as Nelson Eddy Ethel Barrymore Henry Stimson Joe E Brown Reader's Digest Walter Winchell and James Melton among others with varied program times from 10:30 AM to 9:00 PM reflecting a packed broadcasting day.
Three mobile BBC stations labeled BLA 2 3 and 4 operate in northwest Europe to relay BBC programs to Allied troops. They counter Nazi propaganda from Arnhem and broadcast Dutch and Allied content from 6 am to 11 pm European time. Each unit includes technicians drivers cooks and clerks.
Hollywood gossip notes Gregory Peck charms ladies and tabloids during a Beverly Hills cafe encounter. A cigarette girl saves two packs for him, then jokes about giving them to his “boy friend” as the Hays Office observer looks on. Peck continues with a quiet, modest demeanor and orders Hungarian goulash.
Gregory Peck jokes about fans loving him as Father Chisholm and stars in The Keys of the Kingdom and Spellbound. He recalls a speeding ticket in Beverly Hills and tales of contracts with Selznick, RKO, MGM, Fox, and Casey Robinson. Peck's early days include New York World’s Fair Barker jobs and Radio City guides before UC Berkeley graduation in 1939. His La Jolla home, his father a druggist, and his rise from stage to screen are highlighted.
Hollywood gossip column notes John Ford will donate his salary for They Were Expendable to a navy rehabilitation fund. Several anecdotes follow about John Garfield, Bonita Granville, Susanna Foster, Monty Woolley, Van Johnson, Alan Ladd, Sue Carol, Betty Hutton, Ingrid Bergman, Sonja Henie, and others in Hollywood and industry circles.
Cab Calloway and his Royal Highness of Hi De Ho bring Jumpin Jive Jubilee to the Iowa theater Cedar Rapids for a three day engagement starting Monday February 26. The revue features Bill Bailey Holmes and Jean Dotty Saulters the All American quartet J C Heard Jonah Jones Tyree Glenn Milton Hinton and the Cabalettes with a continuous show. A musical screen feature Let’s Go Steady stars June Preisser Jackie Moran and Skinnay Ennis and his orchestra accompanying the act.
A compilation from service publications skewers demobilization, reentry to civilian jobs, and the humor of soldiers. Jokes touch on captains becoming clerks, majors shedding oak leaves, and the lure of ordinary work, with light quips about officers, barracks life, families, and the PX.
T R Kennedy Jr notes at a New York Institute of Radio Engineers meeting that postwar radios will not immediately include all war-era ideas. Early sets will use rapidly mass producible changes, with some technologies limited by cost or wartime value. Tomorrow's tubes may be smaller, and a lady’s receiver could fit a handbag.
Tickets are on sale at the Iowa theater box office for Blossom Time, a one night operetta presented by the Schuberts on Monday evening, March 5. Written by Sigmund Romberg, it is based on the life and melodies of Franz Schubert. Mail orders are being accepted with remittances enclosed. all seats are reserved.
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