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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 02, 1947

Page

3

Noted radio and TV lineup flags coming week schedule

A roundup of upcoming radio and TV programs lists Al Jolson in a re created first talkie Notes and Comment as a Radio Theater event Monday on CBS WMT from 7 to 8 pm Also Gail Patrick Tamara Shayne Ludwig Donat Lee Bowman Una Merkel John Garfield Jane Wyman Ezio Pinza Peter Lorre Ethel Smith Arthur Godfrey and more slated for various networks TheMiss America contest rights secured by NBC TV at Atlantic City in September CBS retains Madison Square events rights for the next year and a half

al Jolson Cbs-Wmt Jolson Gail Patrick Tamara Shayne Ludwig Donat Lee Bowman Una Merkel Desi Arnaz Bob Hope Sinatra Max Baer Maxie Rosenbloom Humor Hall of Fame National Laugh Week Foundation Fred Allen Jack Benny Jimmy Durante Will Rogers Robert Benchley Charlie Chaplin W. C. Fields Marx Brothers Damon Runyon Mark Twain James Thurber NBC Television Atlantic City CBS Television Madison Square

Evening Radio Schedule Highlights and Guests

At 6 p m KXEL airs music then news with WHO and WGN. By 7 p m Lum and Abner headline a Telephone Hour and Radio Theater with Victor Borge and Percy Faith on WMT. The lineup includes Joan Davis Howard Barlow I Q Dr and Jack Smith across stations.

Asher Jimmie Howard Barlow WGN Scotland Yard WMT Joan Davis KXEL Lum Abner Sher Holme Victor Borge Telephone Hour WHO Radio Theater Percy Faith WHO Screen Guild Dr. I. Q Bob Hawk Supper Club Jack Smith WMT Cavalcade Fish Hunt Screen Guild Doctors Who Lowell Thomas Weed Kaltenborn R. Pearl WMP Kenny Baker E. Beofield Lewis St. Francis Billboard Henry Taylor R. Morgan C Portia Farrel Wid Tom Nix Bradley Sky King J Armstrong WXEL

Radio Schedule Fragments From 1917 Broadcasts List

A dense roster of radio program names and times from June 3, 1917 captures KXEL WGN WMT broadcasts and host segments. Entries name Percy Faith, Lowell Thomas, Ted Malone, Perry Mason, and other figures, with daybreak worship, farm reports, soap operas, dramas, music hours, and sports segments listed across stations KXEL WGN WMT KNED and others.

Toll of Memorial Day Holiday Deaths Reaches 461

United Press reports a three day Memorial Day weekend produced 461 accidental deaths since Thursday 6 p.m. Traffic crashes led with 194 fatalities, followed by plane crashes 103 drownings 53 and 111 miscellaneous deaths. California recorded the highest traffic toll 33, with Michigan 18 and Indiana 17. The tally surpassed last year's when under 300 were killed despite a four day weekend.

United Press California Michigan Indiana

Film Schedule Updated by Theater Management

The Gazette notes schedule changes for Monday across venues Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Strand Marion and lists showtimes for titles including The Egg and I Honeymoon Dick Tracy's Dilemma The Fabulous Dora and Vacation in Reno Magnificent Doll Beauty and the Bandit The Man in Grey Blondie Knows Best Close Call for Boston Blackie Humoresque Fit for a King and more with specific showtimes at each location.

the Gazette Paramount Iowa Dor“seys Reno Boston Blackie Marion

Plant a Garden Poet’s healthful counsel for readers

Edgar A. Guest urges readers to take up gardening as healthful exercise and a pleasant enterprise. He highlights learning from soil, plants, and trees, and finding friendship, spring joys, and the pride of growing a rose against besetting foes.

Joan Crawford Adopts Another Pair of Tots

HOLLYWOOD AP Actress Joan Crawford was a very busy woman Monday with her family of adopted children increased from two to four. The additions are Cynthia three months and Cathy two months just arrived from an eastern institution. Miss Crawford declined to identify. Her older children are Christina eight and Christopher four. Miss Crawford, now unmarried, was divorced from her third husband Phillip Terry in 1946.

Hollywood Joan Crawford Cynthia Cathy Miss Crawford Mre Christina Christopher Phillip Terry

Negro Job Rights Protected by Bill

Washington AP reports a union curbing bill includes lesser known protections for Black workers. Senate lawyers say the provisions shield job rights by outlawing the closed shop while permitting a union shop where workers must join a union or face dismissal. The conference committee version adds further safeguards.

Washington Senate Labor Committee Senate-House

Union Membership Rights and Exceptions in Hiring Rules

A bill allows a company to keep a non union worker if union membership was not available to him on equal terms. It also bars unions from firing a worker denied membership for reasons beyond nonpayment of initiation fee or ties. A note mentions a flour made from cottonseed.

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Famous laxative cereal offer from Uncle Sam Breakfast Food Co

An Omaha Nebraska company markets a cereal claiming laxative effects. It promises a double refund if customers are not completely satisfied and asks buyers to return the top of the package at their grocer.

California Uncle Sam-Breakfast Food Company Omaha Nebraska

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