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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1963
Page
16
New York based comedian Dick Shawn says television creates paper stars and offers little lasting respect. He limits TV to two appearances a year, favors stage work and nightclub gigs, and cites Crosby and Astaire as examples of lasting fame by avoiding overexposure.
A compiled schedule lists cinema showings for Paramount RKO WORLD and local drive ins. Titles include PT 109 Spencer's Mountain Raiders of Leyte Gulf Mutiny on the Bounty Cattle King Torpedo Run Student Prince It Happened at the World's Fair My Six Loves Fancy Pants Boys Night Out Period of Adjustment Tales of Terror with various start times for Matinees and evenings.
Hollywood television producer Walter Schwimmer stays in Chicago and signs winners for his shows. His programs include World Series of Golf Championship Bowling and Championship Bridge with Charles Goren, airing on NBC TV September 7-8. He emphasizes urgency and profitability from top athletes and champions.
The producer, praised for past success, faces ideas for new shows including Championship Drinking and championship issues from polo to hunting. He dismisses many as lacking challenge and defends a World Series golf style format using past winners as the core attraction. He recalls a marbles loss as a noted setback.
Alderman Rodney Cook presented Ethel Merman with Atlanta’s traditional key to the city as she arrived for a week long engagement. The star admired the large symbolic key and asked to keep it, but Cook explained it is the city’s only one and promised a replica.
Hedda Hopper notes Sid_n ey Poitier leads the cast of Lilies of the Field with Lilia Skala and four amateurs. Ralph Nelson directs on a $247000 budget. Anita Loos visits Etna and discusses a Carol Channing project that stalled due to illness. Orry Kelly outfits Ava Gardner for Seven Days in May as Bette Davis awaits a wedding and a new son_in_law. Nat King Cole signs Pete Barbutti for a 40_city tour.
The piece notes Ginger Rogers meeting Pat Boone in Dallas to lure him into Jamaica film plans with her husband. Jack Palance tours The Greatest Show on Earth with Desilu and Ringling Bros. Arthur Hiller urges Fred MacMurray into a serious senator role in A Matter of Principle. The Gordons’ daughter Meredith shifts from My Three Sons to Wildcat in Kansas City as Lucille Ball skirts Broadway. Howard Keel joins No Strings as lead in Broadway company.
A brief classified notices that advertises low cost opportunities to attract business. It stresses affordable rates and quick readership reach for sellers and small advertisers.
In Kiev Khrushchev met Belgium's Foreign Minister Spaak to ease East West tensions, signaling aloofness from the China crisis. The meeting continues a 1961 dialogue and follows Khrushchev's Berlin and German peace treaty policy.
The discussion with Spaak marked a dramatic demonstration of a policy toward peaceful coexistence with the West. The meeting underscored efforts to ease tensions and pursue diplomatic engagement.
In ARP Texas a shipment of 15,000 saccharine tablets was due Monday to help a town that vows to quit eating sugar until prices fall.
Correspondents from national and international scenes report weekly during weeknights at 10 15 on Television 9.
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