Broadway Notes and Celebrity Quickies
Fran Ward on tour with The Pajama Game may be screen tested in Los Angeles as a potential successor to Doris Day in Warnermusicals. Evie Hayes, veteran of vaudeville, recalls childhood stages and touts a Utopia in Australia including a private beach house. The Cinerama Holiday impresses with Swiss Alps train visuals and improved indoor shots. Bruce Biossat hints at a Cecil B DeMille underwater spectacle titled 20 000 Legs under the Sea.
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Fran Ward
Los Angeles
Doris Day
Warner Musicals
Irene Dunne
Arthur Godfrey
Arthur
Howard Perry Rothberg
Evie Hayes
Evie
Baby June
June Havoc
America
South Pacific
Australia
Swiss Alps
Bruce Biossat
Cecil B. DeMille
Lightly Aired Gale Storm on My Little Margie CBS Radio
The entry notes a light aired Gale Storm show episode My Little Margie on CBS Radio. It highlights the Millers as stiff and formal characters with Mrs Miller’s formality and Mr Miller’s rigidity.
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Gale Storm
My Little Margie
CBS Radio
Evie Hayes Dominates Australian Musical Comedy Scene
Janis Carter meets Australian theatre executives including Germershausen Harnischfeger and Pipenhagen as Evie Hayes rises as the queen of Australian musical comedy. Since 1943 she has led Oz productions of Annie Get Your Gun Oklahoma Kiss Me Kate and Call Me Madam touring Olbourne Sydney Adelaide and New Zealand while scouting for TV opportunities.
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Janis Carter
Bernie Germershausen
Germershausen
Janis
Henry Harnischger
Harnischfeger
Mr. Knucklebender
Arthur Pipenhagen
Legit
Pipenhagen
Bernie
Henry
Arthur
Australia
Evie Hayes
Robert Menzies
Seattle
Wash
Ethel Merman
America
Kate
Madam
Olbourne
Sydney
Adelaide
Ruh
New Zealand
City Plans New 1000-Gallon Fire Pumper Purchase
Cedar Rapids city council approved buying a 1000-gallon pumper for the fire department at 15 192 dollars. The policy calls for a new pumper every two years to keep the fleet up to standard and compliant with safety guidelines.
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Cedar Rapids
Fire truck order to bolster hydrantless area protection
Commissioner E A Prochaska reported Fire Chief Jesse Hunter announced a new fire truck from Peter Pirsch and Sons Company of Kenosha Wis. The machine will replace and enhance the existing pumper fleet proven effective in hydrantless regions and is expected to take about 150 days to build.
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E. A. Prochaska
Jesse Hunter
Peter
Friday Theater Time Schedules At Paramount And Other Theaters
Theater pages list Friday times for Paramount and other venues. Paramount shows Bridges at Tokori at 1 35 3 35 5 35 7 40, shorts 1 15 8 15 5 15 7 20, Saturday matinee Silver Chalice 1 20 3 55 shorts 1 05 3 40. Other houses Iowa State Palace Marion also publish late changes and routine matinee and evening slots for Deep in My Heart Pirates of Tripoli Black Shield of Falworth Saskatche wan Bullet Is Waiting Phantom of She Rue Morgue Thunder over theemp ern Rocket Man.
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E Gazette
Paramount
Tokori
Iowa
MacMurray and Leisen form company to make new comedy
Fred MacMurray and Mitchell Leisen have teamed to produce a new comedy. They bought Joseph Hoffman's story The Promised Land, promising an hilari ous plot about a man who loses all.
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Ollywood
INS
Fred MacMurray
Mitchell Leisen
Paramount
Mitch
Joseph Hoffman
Hollywood Rumors and Las Vegas Glamour Mix
A collage of show business chatter notes gambling in Las Vegas with a Geiger counter tale and Uranium under a casino, Gwenn joining The Bar Sinister at MGM, Edmund Gwenn praised for Miracle on 34th Street, plus makeup talks for Paul Muni and Westmore, Liberace ordering a $1475 hand headed tuxedo, Nunnally Johnson family wedding in New York, Jimmy Durante targeting Margaret Tru man for a Flamingo show, and Joe Frisco returning to Bing Crosby's orbit.
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Edmund Gwenn
Richard Harding Davis
MGM
Gwenn
Davis
Jeff Richards
Teddy
Tr Pe
Dennis
Liberace
Sy Devore
Las Vegas
The
Riviera
Nunnally Johnson
New York
Nunnally
Jimmy Durante
Margaret Truman
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By Dick Kleiner
Broadway
Will Mahoney
Leo
Marion
Armar Ballroom
Warner Color
Scott Plis
Kirk
Rocket Man
Geo
Foghorn
Winslow
SUN
Technicolor
Niwas
RTM
Ertity — Rak Serous
Rory Caurour
Stephen McMally
Virginia Mayo
Helena
Thomas B. Costain
Crow Center
First
First Avenue
Jonathans
Todd’s
Todd's
Hickory House
Todd
Marion Boulevard
Armar
Wner Bros
Warner
SAT
Tony Curtis
Janet Leigh
Falworth
Saskatchewan
Rue Morgue
Lovella Parsons
RKO
Danny
Kathy
Elaine
Warner Bro
Cine
WarnerCotors
Weens
Terry Bear
Piccadilly Tavern
the Pic Trio
Hotel Roosevelt
Danceland
Kenny Hofer
Jack Oatts
Sue Morris
WMT Rangers
Orch
Boston
Gene ‘Curtis
Adams- Nader
Jiates of
Tripoli
Henreid
MEDI
MacMurray
Pere Westmore
Paul Muni
Pere
Bette Davis
Westmore
Queen Elizabeth
Walter Raleigh
Muni
Pete
Emile Zola
Louis Pasteur
By Addison
Addison
Raglan
Daylite
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