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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1957
Page
2
Jose Ferrer argues cinema must ditch back-lot fakeness as TV documentary realism reshapes film. He praises Moulin Rouge but calls it a visual beauty, not engaging. He plans new Dreyfus project while avoiding television work, praising Rosemary Clooney’s homebody stance and family focus.
Showings list for Paramount Iowa State Times Palace Marion with titles Anastasia Giant Queen of Babylon Barefoot Battalion Rock Rock Rock Hidden Guns Toward the Unknown. Screenings include multiple daily start times and short features noted as shorts.
Lovella Parsons reports Gregory Peck put on hold Spain filming for Thieves Market, choosing The Big Country as his U S project with Willy Wyler directing and Peck as a Texas tenderfoot. Ava Gardner contract doubt lingered while Lana Turner Lex Barker news mix with Stalin Is Alive cast. Rehearsals set for Tommy Noonan Broadway Joker with Debbi and Eddie. Anna Maria Duringer praised, under Selznick option.
Dennis Morgan's son Stanley Morner and his college sweetheart Sally Teffer teller are wed in late summer, with Stanley a 22 year old Occidental College senior and Sally a junior there. Gary Cooper says he eats only fish in Europe and swallows three dozen oysters at a time. Robert Stack spent 24 hours admiring his newborn before returning to San Diego. Bill Lundigan notes his 19 month old in Washington for inauguration, Stacy cutting a molar there.
State theater presents a double bill from Twentieth Century Fox featuring The Queen of Babylon with Rhonda Fleming and Ricardo Montalban and Barefoot Battalion about Greek children resisting Nazis. Filmed in Europe and Greece respectively, the program blends a celebrated Technicolor epic with a documentary style wartime tale.
The marketeer notes the rest of the players are young unknowns while the Symphony Orchestra of Athens provides the music for the event.
LA PAZ Bolivia authorities said a lightning strike on a field where four teenagers played soccer killed four and injured nine Tuesday, with reports confirming the deaths and injuries on Wednesday.
On January 22, 1957 Grace Setera was appointed executrix of the estate of Edeingart, deceased, in Linn County Iowa. Creditors are to file claims authenticated with the Linn County District Court Clerk and debtors must pay promptly, with Kubicek Novak & Kubicek handling the attorney duties.
Notice record from Linn County Iowa estates name Margaret E Hasak as executrix for the estate of Nelle M McDowell. Creditors must file proofs with Linn County Clerk. attorney Dwight Krumboltz assists.
Landen Stratton a 59 year old trapper from Mount Eden Kentucky recounted 12 harrowing hours after breaking his hip on icy ground while checking a trapline near Shelburne guiding himself to a barn using a raccoon skin as warmth and crutch making and finally signaling rescuers by burning a tobacco shed.
As temperatures dropped, Stratton was found huddled near a fire. Attendants report pain from a broken hip and he tarpaulined and set fire to tobacco stripping to gain attention. Hospital says condition is satisfactory.
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