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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1955
Page
7
The Gazette lists Friday showtimes for Paramount Iowa State Palace Marion and other venues with varying matinee clocks. Titles include Blackboard Jungle Davy Crockett Annapolis Story Seven Angry Men Glass Slipper Dawn at Socorro Rage at Dawn Along Came Jones White Lightning Belle of the Yukon Sea of Lost Ships and Arrowhead with multiple daily slots and shorts segments.
In Faribault Minnesota Mrs Er nest Petteys reports her pet parakeet has learned a sharp retort. When annoyed by people it squawks I can talk can you fly a playful jab that charms onlookers.
In Las Vegas the 11 year old conductor Paul Alberghetti performs with the family act at the Royal Nevada hotel. He conducts the William Tell Overture and a symphonic Davy Crockett wearing a coonskin cap while his father conducts and his sister Anna Maria headlines. Paul reads comics between shows and dreams of future paths including cello or medicine.
The item details Horace Heidt’s planned musical biography project with studio bosses and his connections to past stars like Art Carney and Gordon MacRae. It also covers Janet Leigh’s Paris project timing with Tony Curtis, Roz Russell’s Picnic shoot, and various celebrity baby announcements and relocations including Turhan Bey returning to the United States.
William Broidy of Allied Artists says Fred MacMurray and Ronald Reagan will sign deals next week to co star in Blood on the Blade a big Cinema Scope color production with a budget near 2.5 million based on the Saturday Evening Post story Apache Curse about a mixed western and prison riot tale set in 1865. Milton H. Greene of Marilyn Monroe Productions notes Monroe is a free agent not under contract to Twentieth Century Fox and did not seek permission to appear on television.
Houston reports say the $59,000 in jewels stolen from actress Hedy Lamarr and oilman Howard Lee was found on the home premises. Lamarr and her household had undergone lie detector tests after the theft. Lamarr's seamstress Alberta Pears reportedly discovered the jewels in a bag on a shelf in the upstairs sewing room. No suspect was named.
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