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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1944
Page
18
Walter Winchell surveys showbiz anecdotes about Mrs. Patrick Campbell John Barrymore and Alfred Lunt. He recalls Belasco production delays Leo Woollcott tales and Robeson Othello praise. notes critics and actors, backstage wit, and theater lore across memorable quips.
A collage recalls Robeson’s early fame as Othello, desperate bids for stage work, a curtain speech heckler, reactions to vanity in actors, a vaudeville suicide boast, Nora Bayes and Ethel Barrymore billing frictions, Wilde’s sharp offstage wit, and a closing Wilde remark about stars.
The Truman committee report finds 1944 magnesium output should cover military and civilian needs with a surplus for other uses. It backs War Production Board action to curb magnesium, credits Dow Chemical for meeting most wartime demands, critiques efficiency at Basic Magnesium Inc Las Vegas plant yet praises its record output, and urges a civilian-use program to expand postwar demand and prevent monopolies while keeping the United States a world leader in light metals.
Times announced by theater managements for Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Marion showings listed with titles and nightly start times. Includes Crime School Girls on Probation Corvette K 225 Sahara The Renegade Navy Blues What a Woman and Crime Doctor's Strangest Case among other features and shorts.
The radio station launches its Top of Evening series with a premiere tonight featuring local artists and a preview of forthcoming programs. Viewers are invited to tune in as the new season debuts with a curated lineup and guest performances.
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports on OP OF THE EVENING premiering Monday at 9 15 to 9 30 p m on Blue and EXEL with the Ken Darby group the King’s Men and Sally Sweetland. Other items include Ed Sullivan Entertains guest Fredric Marek from overseas War bases and Vox Pop from Groton Conn and Bayonne N J using lip microphones.
A dense, era style schedule listing WMT CBS WMAQ NBC WGN MBS and others with times from 6 am to 11:15 am. It names programs and hosts such as Bob Ripley Ed Sullivan KXEL Clift Helen KXEL News and various music and talk segments. The piece preserves the sequence of daily programming across stations and posters a snapshot of morning to late afternoon radio.
Louella Parsons reports on A Bell For Adano rights bought by Darryl F Zanuck with Spencer Tracy as a possible lead while 20th Century Fox collaborates with Arthur Rank on There Shall Be No Night. Ray Bolger to sign with M G M and Johnny Weissmuller plans marine boot camp training for his next film. Lionel Barrymore dines with Spencer Tracy and Gene Autry heads to Detroit with others shifting roles and salaries.
A dense listing of station blocks with times and show titles across WMT WGN WHO EXEL KXEL and other networks. Programs include News, Markets, Plays, Hymns, and children's segments with host names and times from noon to 5:45 pm.
London AP reports Adolf Hitler was absent from the annual memorial day event as Admiral Karl Doenitz spoke at the microphone. Doenitz delivered a grim pledge of a pitiless struggle for Germany’s existence, signaling a solemn, war-wearied tone at Berlin's Zeughaus memorial observance.
Tickets for the operetta Blossom Time at the Shu berts stage will be sold Monday evening March 27 at the Iowa theater boxoffice. Reserved seating only. mail orders accepted. No seats held without payment.
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt toured army and navy installations in Port of Spain Trinidad over the weekend noting the troops morale as normal and about what one would expect She spoke with service members and observed daily routines during the visit
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