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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 06, 1954

Page

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Attic and Air Picture Thrills Iowa Theaters

Hollywood and British thrillers headline the Iowa bill. Man in the Attic stars Jack Palance with Constance Smith and Byron Palmer, portraying a notorious Victorian killer with eerie gaslit mood and tense chase scenes. Project M-7 follows, featuring Phyllis Calvert and James Donald in an atomic powered plane intrigue with foreign agent danger and sharp British restraint.

Jack Palance Constance Smith Byron Palmer Twentieth Century-Fox Phyllis Calvert James Donald J. Arthur Rank Iowa Theater Hollywood Jack the Ripper Marie Belloc Lowndes Scotland Yard London

Official Resigns Over Dickenson

HATTIESBURG Mississippi AP A draft board member resigned Wednesday over the conviction of Cpl Edward S Dickenson on charges of helping the Communists while a prisoner Albert L White said The army lied to him and if it will lie to one it will lie to another He says the army promised freedom if he gave up communism but he received 10 years of hard labor and citizenship stripped away He calls that not freedom

Hattiesburg, Miss Cpl Edward S. Dickenson Albert L. White Dickenson U. S

Theater Time for Thursday at Paramount and more listings

The Gazette lists today schedule notes with matinee changes and theater timings. Paramount shows Lucky Me at 3:10 5:20 7:35 9:45 with shorts at 2:40 4:50 7 9:15. Other venues Iowa Palace Town Marion drivein and Twixt Town feature various films and showtimes including Red Garters Vice Squad Man in the Attic Project M War of the Worlds Ride the Man Down Thunderbirds Glenn Miller Story and more.

Paramount Iowa Palace Thunderbirds Marion Co. R

Bob Hope Buys Eddie Foy Life Story for Film

Hollywood gossip notes Bob Hope has acquired the life story of Eddie Foy but none of the Seven Little Foys will appear in the film, planned for July at Paramount with a later Road picture in collaboration with Bing Crosby. Frank Rosenberg buys Miracle in the Rain with interiors set in New York July 8, Audrey Hepburn negotiations mentioned, Pier Angeli or Jean Simmons considered. William Barrett novel Left Hand of God sold to Twentieth from RKO, Bogart reading script, Hawks influenced buy. Ursula Thiess and Robert Taylor wed in August. Cast and production moves include Rogue Cup, Many Rivers To Cross location in Northern California, Desiré with Cameron Mitchell as Brando’s brother, Purdom eyed for The Egyptian or Ben Hur, Joe Cottens return to Hollywood June 1, Mona Freeman to Battle Cry.

Ollywood INS Bob Hope Eddie Foy Foy Charley Eddie, Jr Brynne Bob Paramount Bing Crosby Frank Rosenberg Ben Hecht Frank New York Audrey Hepburn Audrey Pier Angeli Jean Simmons William Barrett Twentieth RKO Humphrey Bogart Howard Hawks Barrett Ursula Thiess Robert Taylor Eleanor Parker Victor McLaglen California Cameron Mitchell Marlon Brando Camne Brando Joseph Bonaparte Desiree Edmund Purdom Purdom Ben Hur Europe

Broadway Amateur Songwriters Invited by Publisher

Dick Kleiner reports publisher Jack Spina of Spinlan Music seeks new songwriters. Send a demo record with lead sheet to 1650 Broadway New York NY, return postage optional. The piece then follows Juliana Larson, a nightclub act featured with a pink ladder and sequined dungarees, and a long tale about a Siamese cat named Monsoon and a TV puppetry duo Bil and Cora Baird who produce about 20 puppets weekly for The Morning Show.

Jack Spina Perry Como Arthur Godfrey Spinlan Music Corporation Broadway New York N. Y Arkansas Juliana Larson Miss Larson Sherry Netherland Texas Walter Bedford Sharp Monsoon Bil Cora Baird Cbs-Tv

TV Toppers and Psychiatrist Jokes in 1950s TV Hype

TV fragments spotlight Herb Shriner on CBS and DuMont’s Dollar a Second with jokes about psychiatrists. A tipsy booster tale and puppet-house crowding at the Bairds appear amid a string of quips about multiple personality cases where each persona pays.

Jean Martin Jan Murray DuMont

Kerosene Lamps Out on Subways

New York based transit authority bans kerosene lamps on subway cars inspiring a four year modernization. About 1400 cars will switch to electric lighting and remove 17 professional wick trimmers from service at a total cost of 559000 dollars.

New York The Transit Authority

Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun debuts at Coe Friday

The Coe music department presents the first amateur production of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun in the college auditorium Friday and Saturday at 8. The show, Broadway hit since 1946, features a dance of adoption by six senior Boy Scouts and tickets priced 1 to 1.50 are on sale at several campus outlets.

Coe Music Department Irving Berlin College Auditorium Ethel Merman Betty Hutton Dorothy Herbert Fields Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II Annie Oakley Frank Butler Buffalo Bill Butler Pawnee Bill Coe

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