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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1969
Page
5
Hollywood celebrities including Paul Newman Tony Curtis and Bob Hope back a bead technique to curb smoking using Metaxa Worry Beads. Health officials and public figures demonstrated the method at a Los Angeles Press club event as com edian Marty Allen performed.
Bob Hope says he is in good company but the timing is wrong. He compared the honor to being promoted to captain just before the iceberg hits the Titanic during ceremonies on Monday.
Coleman Hawkins, 64, a jazz tenor sax pioneer, died of bronchial pneumonia Monday at Wickersham hospital. A St. Joseph, Missouri native, he shaped a full tone and loud volume with Fletcher Henderson in the 1920s, led bands from the late 1930s, and recorded Body and Soul in 1939 and Woody n You in the 1940s. Surviving are his wife Dolores, a son and two daughters. Funeral Friday at St Peter s Lutheran Church, burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.
Actors' Equity Assn releases a list restricting nudity and sexual acts in auditions and performances. It bans required sex acts, disrobing before audition, and unsafe nudity without an observer, while noting possible legal consequences even for simulated sex and requiring writing in advance for any nudity or sexualized content.
Paramount shows Charly at 1 35 3 40 5 40 7 45 9 45 with 1 30 3 25 5 25 7 30 9 30 shorts. Iowa presents The First Time with 2 4 05 6 10 8 15 10 shorts. World screens The Shoes of the Fisherman at 1 30 4 20 8 15. Times shows Funny Girl at 8. Plaza lists The Mad Room at 6 8 10 with shorts 7 35 9 35. Marion runs Uncle Tom's Cabin at 7 9 15 with shorts 9. Collins Drive-In features The Odd Couple at 9 and Barefoot in the Park at 11. Twixt Town offers The Green Berets at 9 and The Family Way at 11 40.
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