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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1957
Page
14
Industry officials anticipate pay TV to rival theater in profits with cables to 1,000,000 homes estimated at 50 million dollars. Major studios like Columbia Fox Warner MGM race to adapt while new theaters revive attendance and TV film exposure boosts return to cinema.
Hollywood accepts television as a major force as film makers abandon their anti TV stance. The shift shows movie industry leaders embracing TV potential in a new era of programming, profitability, and influence.
A dense, fragmented OCR listing across KCRG Cedar Rapids WMT Cedar Rapids KWWLT Waterloo WHBF Rock Island WOI-WTY Amer & WOG Davenport WEKBT LaCrosse WHO-TV Des Moines includes station IDs and weather notes. It also references NBC News and various classic programs, with partial times and show names scattered throughout.
Motion picture venues and drive-ins report a sluggish season with patrons declining and industry observers noting a broad market slowdown impacting closures and attendance.
Thousands of students and workers in Colombia resumed normal activities after a civil strike that hastened the fall of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Rojas Pinilla arrived in Spain on Monday to become a political refugee, a status Spain has long granted to Colombia's ousted leaders.
Paris hosts a star studded world premiere of Joan of Arc with Jean Seberg in the title role. Seberg maintains poise amid photographers and comic moments as American and French dignitaries attend. Guests include Anita Ekberg Yul Brynner Gerard Philippe and Salvador Dali with officials Lauris Norstad and Mitterrand present.
Hollywood reports Ponti and Girosi form a new partnership after Ponti de Laurentiis era ends. They target Ingrid Bergman Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn for The Three Sisters and plan The Sea of their Dead with author Jorge Amado. talks with Paramount progress. Marty Melcher discusses Doris Day project The Lady and the Bandit with Dean Martin.
The column details Lynn Barton winning a femme role alongside Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock via producer Pan Berman after a contrast with Judy Tyler’s casting. It notes Paul Newman’s Europe filming and Jeanne Woodward’s absence, Joanne’s London stay, and other celebrity movements including Marion Brande’s ex-fiance Josianne Berenger, Dean Martin at the Cocoanut Grove, the McGuire Sisters’s opening night, and Ardis and Bill Holden’s New York arrival.
The party will remain in town for a few days and plan to return here on Wednesday.
Notice of probate of will in the county court with appointment of the executor. The estate of the deceased resides in the county and probate proceedings are to be conducted at the courthouse before the judge on a specified date. The clerk of the district court will record all actions and provide further instructions.
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