Swinging London slows as square music gains ground
London reports a shift in taste as Frank Sinatra tops charts then gives way to the Beatles. Pirates Radio 390 declares a square music policy and plans VHF expansion while a fort-based UKGM channel promises more good music beyond pop.
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Hollywood Glamour and Hollywood Set Rumors
Louis Sobol reports on Mrs Hitchcock beating cancer and other showbiz notes. Lydia Brazzi and Rosanno argue on set while Joey Adams fans readers at the Borscht Belt. Soupy Sales and Burgess Meredith families, NBCs Alice special, Coppola and Huston amid dining detours and Dempsey Louis public buzz.
Hollywood friends mix work and play in celebrity gossip
The column notes Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford sharing a hotel suite as Davis hopes Lawford lands a part in Wild Wild West. Bob Conrad prepares Los Bandidos while Tammy Grimes copes with a packed schedule after her June wedding to Jeremy Slate and Mark Miller writes on spec between filming and a July 6 return to a TV role.
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Theater Time Listings For Wednesday Night Showings
The Ghost and Mr Chicken at Paramount 1 20 3 25 5 30 7 40 9 45 shorts 1 15 2 50 4 55 7 9 10 Iowa Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number 1 50 3 55 6 8 05 10 10 shorts 1 35 3 40 5 45 7 50 9 55 World The Ten Commandments 12 4 8 Times The Sound of Music 2 8 Marion Trouble with Angels 7 30 Promise Her Anything 9 35 C R Drive In Fireball 500 9 10 12 40 Kid Rodelo 11 Twixt Town Cincinnati Kid 9 05 Viva Las Vegas 11 20
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Stones sue 14 New York hotels for 5 million
The Rolling Stones filed a lawsuit against 14 elite New York hotels claiming denial of overnight lodging violated their civil rights. The group says the hotels refused to accommodate them due to national origin and directed their agent to seek other accommodations.
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Sam Goldwyn Settles for Million-Plus
Samuel Goldwyn won a 1,252,500 out-of-court settlement from Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp and theater chains to end a 16-year antitrust dispute. The lawsuit, filed in 1950, charged monopolistic practices by Fox, National Theaters, United California Theaters and others from 1937 to 1950.
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Illinois Capitol to Add Two Seven Story Wings
Springfield officials report the Illinois Legislative Commission on Space endorses a plan to erect two seven story additions to the state capitol at a cost of 5.5 million dollars. The project aims to expand office space and public facilities within the historic building. The approval sets the stage for construction funding and subsequent bidding processes.
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Sound of Music breaks SA box office record at cinema
In Johannesburg the Sound of Music has become the longest running film at a single movie house in South Africa. It has played for more than a year at a suburban venue, drawing steady crowds and setting a national record.
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Tryouts Open For Summer Community Play
Cedar Rapids Community Theater invites actors for Never Too Late a comedy about a middle aged couple expecting again. Auditions Wednesday and Thursday at 7 30 pm with three women and six men in the cast. Performances run three weekends beginning July 28. Contact Don Tescher at 366 2318 if unable to attend.
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Cedar Rapids
Marie Wilson Named Beneficiary In Will For Electrician
Actress Marie Wilson, who drove home stage electrician George Thompson after every performance of Ken Murray's Blackouts for over seven years, was approved as administrator of Thompson's estate in Los Angeles Superior Court. The estate is valued around $10,000, as per her husband producer Robert Fallon.
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