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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1968
Page
8
Vice President Humphrey's African tour includes a formal dinner with Kenyan Prime Minister Kenyatta in Nairobi. A waiter spilled soup on Kenyatta. he knocked the staffer to the floor with a karate blow, the LYONS dinner for the U.S. VP continuing afterward.
Los Angeles reports Eartha Kitt defended her Vietnam War protest at a White House luncheon saying she was not rude and had been recognized to speak. She said 500 attendees heard her view linking the war to social problems. The White House received about 1,900 letters, many criticizing her conduct.
Mrs Frank Sinatra travels to India with spiritual leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to study transcendental meditation. The Harvard audience watches as the guru promises world peace and blissful consciousness while followers react with curiosity and varying degrees of attention.
Samuel and Bernard Kelemer, genuine Los Angeles cantors, will play the twin cantors in Love You Alice B. Toklas a comedy starring Peter Sellers set in Hollywood with the performers billed as authentic cantors.
Actor Ray Walston accepted a $10,000 settlement before trial for injuries from a chimp bite on September 9 1963 at Desilu Studios Hollywood during the My Favorite Martian filming. Walston sought $150,000 from owner Ralph Helfer who supplied film animals. The chimp Jerry has since died.
Theaters list showings for Paramount Dark at 1 35 3 35 5 35 7 35 19 35 with shorts 3 25 5 25 7 25 9 25. Iowa Reflections in a Golden Eye shows 1 40 3 45 5 50 7 55 10 with shorts 1 30 3 35 15 40 7 45 9 50. World The Presidents Analyst shows 1 20 3 20 5 25 7 30 9 35 with shorts 1 3 5 05 7 10 9 15. Times The Bible 8 Wednesday matinee The Bible. Plaza Valley of the Dolls shows 6 6 8 05 10 10. Marion Two for the Road shows 7 30 9 30 with shorts 9 20.
Danny Kaye signs with Joe Levine to play the rag picker in The Madwoman of Chaillot with Katharine Hepburn in the title role and Yul Brynner as chairman. John Huston to shoot in Nice mid February. Terence Stamp courted by Italian scripts but leaning to American projects. Faye Dunaway rides peak fame with multiple upcoming MGM and Mirisch films and a new Puzzle of a Downfall Child project with Jerry Schatzberg. Cary Grant persists in reconciliation hopes with Dyan Cannon as Kate star and Dyan joins Cole Porter musical.
Filming of The Boston Strangler began in Boston with 20th Century Fox. A woman extra quit during a street scene and struck casting director Marty Richards on the head with her handbag, insisting she would not return to work. Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda are slated to star and join filming later in the week.
Rod Steiger and wife Claire Bloom will join Warner Brothers Seven Arts to begin starring in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. The production envisions a distant future more than 500 years ahead.
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