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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1962
Page
17
In his 60 minute broadcast the comedian shifts from fast paced antics to a quieter middle aged persona. The piece credits his technical skill with misfiring jokes and notes he needs a new character and better writing to sustain humor.
Hollywood notes reveal Jayne Mansfield conquers a Bahamas dunk fear on water skis during Panic Button filming near Rome with Maurice Chevalier and Eleanor Parker cheering from a sailboat. Shirley Jones shines in Camelot and Richard Burton may reteam with her for Lerner Loewe musical film. Judy Garland praises her children with Liza set to star in Anne Frank in Jerusalem. Vince Edwards travels from Indianapolis for Sherry Nelson at Les White's Barclay Kitchen opening.
The page lists evening film showings across multiple venues including Paramount RKO World Marion and Twixt Town. Titles include Cape Fear Judgment at Nuremberg Follow That Dream State Fair Truth Blood and Roses Lover I Come Back and Two Rode Together with various start times and shorts slots.
A lively New York to Hollywood column notes Eddie Fisher’s resurgence amid a boisterous Cocoanut Grove opening. It highlights the Hollywood mood, the press chase, and a blistering market slump driving resort cancellations while Bernard Baruch and a centenarian mother resist modern comforts.
A fragment recalls Syl and Liz with ex husband Michael and a claim about not stealing husbands. The reminiscence shifts to listening to early 1930s radio programs while recalling era favorites including Will Osborne and his song Beside an Open Door.
The narrator recalls a lineup of stars including George Olsen with his vocalists Fran Frey Bobby Berger Bob Rice Joe Morrison and Ethel Shutta. Paul Whiteman from the Hotel Biltmore Roof Ramona at the piano Jack Fulton singing You're My Everything and other acts from Lombardo Olsen Vallee Crosby Cantor Benny Burns and Allen populate the reminiscence as a bustling scene.
A Monday 7:30 p.m. broadcast on KCRG TV 9 features Mark Twain stranded in North Fork meeting Lucas and Mark on the Rifleman program setting.
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