New Angle in Television is the Community Antenna
In areas blocked by hills or distance, communities install coaxial cable networks from towers to homes to receive distant stations. Six cities already use this system with seven more projects in progress, enabling signals from 75 to 125 miles away. Installation costs range from 75 to 150 dollars plus monthly maintenance, but demand is high in underserved areas.
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Wayne Oliver
YORK
Astoria
Ore
Seattle
Bellingham
Wash
Sydney J. Mass
Jerrold
Federal Communications Commission
Almost Another Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore’s stand in and look alike Eve Etheridge causes mixups on film sets. Makeup crews greet her as Barrymore and directors confuse the pair, prompting a wait for a second bouquet and a polite correction from Frederick de Cordova.
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Hollywood
Ethel Barrymore
Eyla ‘Etheridge
Miss Barrymore
Miss Etheridge
Ethel
Frederick de Cordova
Actors Settle Wigwam or Tepee Debate on Utah Set
On a Kanab Utah western film location Robert Ryan and Walter Brennan argued over the traditional Indian home. They asked a Piute actor with a bit part to name the dwelling and the actor answered it as a tent.
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Hollywood
Robert Ryan
Walter Brennan
Kanab
Utah
Genesis Suite and Rachmaninoff Third Concerto Review
The Genesis Suite conducted by Werner Janssen with the Janssen Symphony Orchestra features a cycle of seven tone poems from Genesis with narrations linking episodes by noted composers including Schoenberg Milhaud Stravinsky Toch and more. Beatrice and Benedict and Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with Witold Malaszewski are praised for vivid reading by Janssen and Kletzki respectively.
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Werner Janssen
Janssen
Capitol
Schoenberg
Nathaniel Shilkret
Aleksander Tansman
Darius Milhaud
Mario Castelnovo- Tedesco
Igor Stravinsky
Ernest Toch
Concerto No
Rachmaninoff
Witeld Makuzinski
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Kletzki
Columbia
Music page musings with Cimdents and Patti Page praises
A columnist lists musical discoveries and opinions from Cedar Rapids expert George Rider and Patti Page. It highlights Delibes Coppelia waltz origins, Berlioz Boston Symphony performances, and various 45s and 78s by Mercury, London, and Columbia labels.
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Cedar Rapids
George Rider
Delibes
Mr. Rider
Patti Page
Ruth Barth Rises to Key VOA Post in Cold War Radio
The May 1949 Coe College Courier profiles Ruth Barth, Cedar Rapids native and 1931 Coe graduate, now assistant to the chief of VOA's dramatic unit. She writes plays for medium and shortwave broadcasts as the United States argues its case behind the Iron Curtain.
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Coe College Courier
Ruth Barth
Cedar Rapids
Coe
Miss Barth
The
Voice of America
United States
Russia
Voice
Ruth
New York
Time
Young and Rubicam
We the People
Leavenworth
Federal
Lord Halifax
Netherlands
Alexander Loudon
U. S Treasury Department
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Europe
International Broadcasting Division
State Department
Harper Brothers
World Telegram
A. J. Barth
Fifth Avenue SE
Columbus Junction High School
Pasture Gang: A Curious Hollywood Bunch of Film Extras
Hollywood AP notes the Cow Pasture Gang a informal troupe of road tested bit players in Westerns. Members include Max Amoy the water trough man Gil Benbow the eyeball roller Harry Plotnik the prospector and others such as Charlie Perkins Merkle Stokes Shellhorn Golub Hardshin and more. They work for one day pay up to 150 with no formal organization and specialize in comic relief and background scenes across ranch and frontier settings.
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Hollywood
Cow Pasture Gang
Max Amoy
Max
Gil Benbow
Harry Plotnik
Ted Lewis
Charlie
Pee Wee” Perkins
Merkle
Homer Shellhorn
Iowa
Chester Golub
New York Giants
Harvey Stokes
Seth Hardshin
Maribel Coleman Haskin and Celebrity Gossip at La Vie En Rose
Celeste Holm Constance Moore and other stars were spotlighted at La Vie En Rose in Crean About Town. Gossip columns relay quirky notes on film stars, marriages, party chatter, and nightlife chatter from Greenwich Village to Lindy’s in Manhattan.
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Crean
Celeste Holm
Constance Moore
Joans of
Crawford and
Bennett
Day-marvelous
Penguin
Greenwich
Frankie
Ava-dupois
Sandy
Gert Lawrence
Cham- Ray
Ham Hospital
Mills Brothers Circus to Perform Twice in Cedar Rapids
The Mills Brothers circus comes to Hawkeye Downs for two shows on Monday June 11 in Cedar Rapids. Proceeds aid an insurance benefit fund via the Cedar Rapids fire department. A children's matinee offers free tickets to youngsters from local agencies. The three ring unit includes a menagerie and horse display, part of a 12th anniversary tour with about 500 performers from 18 countries.
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Mills Brothers Circus
Cedar Rapids Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Jesse Hunter
Sunshine Mission
Mills Circus
Most Performed Rural Comedy Inspires Upcoming Film
The forthcoming Perlberg Seaton film features Alan Young and Dinah Shore and is based on a rural comedy long regarded as the most performed play in American drama, drawing frequent stage productions across the nation.
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Aaron Slick
Punkin Crick
Perlberg-Seaton
Alan Young
Dinah Shore
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