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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1969
Page
13
Ella Logan hosted a memorial wake with friends at the White House where Eleanor Roosevelt joked about silverware. The star requested a spoon as a memento, the usher offered a family spoon, and Logan exclaimed she had not asked for it.
Bill Brown of Sixpence, who scored in Cedar Rapids last year as the final lead in Half a Sixpence, is finding success on the professional musical stage. He now plays Linus with his touring company of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown after taking over the role in February. The company recently completed engagements in Detroit after stops in Cleveland and is now in Louisville with summer bookings in Hawaii and the East to follow. Brown has been praised as a real triple threat by Don Tescher and has led roles at multiple Iowa venues and theaters and studied at the University of Iowa.
The Tuesday program highlights Jack Albertson in a Paramount film with varied showtimes and shorts. Other features include Winning at JOWA and Faces at World, plus Miss Jean Brodie at Plaza, Buona Sera Mrs Campbell at Marion, and a drive-in lineup with The Devil's Eight. The note adds a brief mention of Albertson as a basketball coach in a starring role.
Edna Herbst, director of promotion publicity and public affairs for KCRG stations in Cedar Rapids, has been elected to the National Broadcasters Promotion Association board of directors. With KCRG since 1947, she was named Iowa’s outstanding woman in advertising in 1986 by Gamma Alpha Chi. Her Cedar Rapids activities include Community Theater Quota Club United Cerebral Palsy Center and the Chamber of Commerce.
London police halted the New York Living Theater production Paradise Now during its opening night. Officers cited audience members who joined the cast on stage as violating fire regulations, prompting a pause as chairs were moved to the stage.
New York reports Tom Smothers claims 75 percent of the 26 CBS Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour programs were censored by the network, which has canceled the Emmy winning show. CBS rebuts, noting rival networks likely won’t pick up the series. Smothers says edits removed content not bleeped. CBS President Wood defends applying standard standards to entertainment.
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