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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1969
Page
4
New York UPI review faults Jackie Mason and Mike Mortman for a weak Broadway opener at the ANTA theater. The satire relies on repetitive Jewish humor and risqué innuendo, with Mason’s unrestrained acting overshadowed by a disjointed plot about a gentile perceived pregnant by a Negro girl.
Clive Barnes of the New York Times and John Chapman of the Daily News mock the production A Teaspoon Every Four Hours opening at ANTA theater. Barnes finds the piece bold yet weak with a Virginia like sentiment, while noting the press rep as a close friend. The star plays a widower and recluse resisting social mixing and women with grim self awareness.
Amsterdam reports Prince Bernhard and Queen Juliana choosing their own home at Soestdyk after warnings from Queen Wilhelmina. The prince recalls wartime flights, speed stories, a brain concussion, and a Bond like exit from Eisenhower’s funeral, plus anecdotes with Churchill and caviar, US aides, and Detroit road tests.
Hildegarde Loretta Sell, the American singer known as Hildegarde, returned to New Holstein Wisconsin for a Homecoming that was boycotted by a feuding city council. Officials refused to name a street Hildegarde Lane after her and she received a city key and proclamation, while public turnout was small and reception muted.
The Paramount presents Thel marion three long days, Attic offers shorts and TowA features Winning with multiple showings. WORLD screens The Trouble with Girls with shorts, Tita runs late shows. PLAZA lists Finian's Rainbow and more. COLLINS Drive-In offers Run Angel Run, The High Commissioner. QWIXT Town showcases Bye of the Cat and Psycho.
The will of actor Robert Taylor designates Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan as guardians of Taylor's two children if his widow Ursula Theiss dies. Reagan, a close friend, delivered the memorial eulogy Wednesday in Los Angeles.
AP reports Yomiuri says Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia is script writer producer director and actor in a film about Japan as his country's liberator from the French. The movie Rose of Beko stars his wife Princess Monik as a Cambodian girl who loves a Japanese colonel. The prince has produced seven other films including Little Prince which won the Grand Prix at Phnom Penh first international film festival last year.
Phonix Arizona AP Rudy Vallee a 67 year old crooner actor was pulled from the Salt River Sunday after his inner tube capsized in rapids. Car dealer Julian Pegler, on another tube, swam after Vallee and brought him to shore. The trunks were not found.
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