Films Opening This Week in Cedar Rapids Theatres
The Cedar Rapids cinemas feature several color productions this week. Journey to the Lost City stars Debra Paget and Paul Christian at the Paramount with Luciana Paluzzi in a color India-set adventure. The Three Worlds of Guliver with Kerwin Mathews and The World of Suzie Wong with William Holden and Nancy Kwan also screen in color at the Paramount and Iowa respectively. Dolores Hart leads Where the Boys Are at the World in CinemaScope color. Village of the Damned opens at the Times, a sci fi thriller shot in England. The Grass Is Greener returns at Times with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. G I Blues stars Elvis Presley at Marion, followed by Cinderfella with Jerry Lewis.
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Debra Paget
Paul Christian
Paramount
India
Luciana Paluzzi
Gulliver
Kerwin Mathews
Suzie Wong
William Holden
Nancy Kwan
Iowa
Sylvia Syms
Michael Wilding
George Sanders
Barbara Shelley
Cary Grant
Deborah Kerr
Robert Mitchum
Jean Simmons
Sunday Theater Schedule at Paramount and Other Theaters
Theaters list showings for three films including Three Worlds of Gulliver at Paramount with multiple daily times and organ performances, World of Suzie Wong at Iowa, Where the Boys Are at World, Grass Is Greener and Let No Man Write My Epitaph at Times, CinderFella at Marion, and G I Blues with varied showings across Sunday and Monday matinees.
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Paramount
Iowa
Suzie Wong
Oan
Theater opens March 1 in Times Square basement
An off Broadway venue named the Mayfair is under construction in the basement beneath the Hotel Paramount in Times Square New York. The opening is scheduled for March 1.
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New York
UPI
Times Square
Paramount
Lambs Club Names Marie Torre 1961 Newspaper Woman of the Year
The Lambs Club selects syndicated TV columnist Marie Torre as the first woman to receive its Newspaper Woman of the Year award for 1961. She will attend a dinner dance in New York as guest of honor. Torre rose to prominence in 1958 after refusing to reveal sources in a Judy Garland contract dispute with CBS, earning a contempt citation and 10 days in a Jersey City jail.
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Marie Torre
The
Gazette
Lambs Club
Theatri
Cal
New York
Miss Torre
Fourth Estate
Joan of Arc
Judy Garland
CBS
Jersey City
New York Cavalcade by Louis Sobol
Civil War party at the Little Club features Dagmar as Scarlet O'Hara and jokes about Rhett Butler Grant and Lee. Leo Leone's hosts theatrical set with stars like Fay Spain and Gracie, while public figures and performers mingle.
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New York
Dagmar
Scarlet O'Hara
Rhett Butler
Gen. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Leone's
Carol Channing
George Burns
Gracie
Sandra
Henry Fondas
Jules Munshin
Phil Silvers
Nancy Walker
Frank Loessers
Blossom Seeley
Gloria Swanson
Donna Reed Eyes Abroad Filming For TV Show
Hollywood reports Donna Reed seeks Rome as the filming site for four episodes of her ABC series moving beyond its three year run. Producer Tony Owen and crew face delays and costs, with prior Russia plans scrapped after the U-2 incident and diplomatic tensions.
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Joseph Finnigan
Hollywood
UPI
Donna Reed
Donna
Rome
Tony Owen
Russia
U.S. State Department
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Paris
Bargain Days on Broadway Attract Wide Ticket Deluge
Broadway shows offer twofers to cut prices and boost sales with stars like Sir Laurence Olivier Ethel Merman and Maurice Evans singled out. The strategy aims to extend runs repay investments and keep casts employed while several musicals including Gypsy Tenderloin The Music Man The Wall and Becket join the program with All the Way Home starting February 27.
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Sir Laurence Olivier
Ethel Merman
Maurice Evans
Strip Is Popular in Japan Too
AP columnist notes Japanese fans embrace U.S. TV with 10 of the top 20 programs. Westerns like Wagon Train and Bonanza draw large audiences while Gunsmoke underperforms. Among dubbed shows Lucy and Highway Patrol perform well, Dragnet fails, and cultural mismatches limit imports to five hours per channel weekly.
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Tokyo
Edd Byrnes
Roger Smith
Hollywood
U.S
Sunset Strip
Japan
Ann Sothern
Jack Webb
June Allyson
Hong Kong
Far East
Louis Armstrong Plays Coe College Concerts April 20
Jazz great Louis Satchmo Armstrong and his band perform two concerts in the Coe college auditorium on April 20 as the final event of the 1960 61 Auditorium Series. Shows at 7 30 and 9 30 pm with tickets 2 50 and 2 for main floors 2 for logos and 1 50 for balcony. Mail orders welcomed with self addressed stamped envelope.
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Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong
Coe
Louis “Satchmo
Armstrong
Coe College
Actress Ella Ethridge Signs for Twenty Plus Two Role
Actress Ella Ethridge signs to play an apartment house manager in the film Twenty Plus Two. It marks her 173rd motion picture.
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Hollywood
UPI
Ella Ethridge
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Cinderfella
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Italy
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el Morocco
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Dragnet
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RSC
Howard Burton
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