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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1954
Page
8
Caedmon Records signs Nobel laureate William Faulkner to read works and his Nobel speech on tape. Co-owner Marianne Roney says Hemingway remains sought after and notes ongoing letter exchanges. San Francisco jazz expands eastward as a cultural shift.
A dense schedule of daily programming across KCRG Cedar Rapids WMYI KWWL WHBE and WOI plus Davenport Ames and Des Moines outlets. The lineup features news Weather Sports dramas movies and children's fare with time slots from morning to late night including Iowa Football previews and classic programs like The Tonight Show and Arthur Godfrey.
The fine broad shoulders of Turk Murphy and his five good men lead a bold jazz assault on New York venues as Child's Paramount becomes a buzzing beachhead for a vibrant scene.
Lightly Aired by H Allen Smith recalls a Mormon with two wives who died before him. In his will he set an equal burial distance to both wives but requested to tilt him a little toward Tilly.
ALEXIS notes Murphy champions San Francisco jazz with a distinct Dixieland-influenced sound and a five-man lineup. King Richard and the Crusaders stars George Sanders Rex Harrison Virginia Mayo Lawrence Harvey in a lavish Warner Bros spectacle, full of jousting desert scenery and a climactic bridge duel.
TOKYO UP An enterprising Italian restaurant manager here, mistakenly tied to a Red spy probe, ran an ad in a newspaper to set the record straight. He called his cafe a capitalistic macaroni mill and said the only red thing is the meat sauce.
The Gazette lists today matinee and evening showtimes for Paramount Iowa State Palace Marion and other cinemas with two more venues including Co R Drive-In and Twixt Town. A stray cinema note follows about upcoming films and one interview snippet mentions Judy Holliday’s health and other celebrity news.
Louella Parsons reports Charles Feldman backed an out of town tryout for Fanny starring Ezio Pinza Florence Henderson and Walter Slezak. Feldman also eyeing Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell and Oh Men Oh Women with Franchot Tone possibly Bill Holden. Bob Mitchum signed for Naked and the Dead to shoot mid June with Norman Mailer script. Charles Laughton to supervise. Joan Crawford seen dancing at Chrysler party.
Broadway actress Betsy Von Furstenberg was dismissed from Oh Men Oh Women after she kicked a fellow actor before the audience and spiked Tony Randall’s drink with German herbs. A theater spokesman cited temperamental behavior and onstage misconduct as the causes two weeks after the incident.
A spokesman described a situation where a man with a puckered mouth struggled to speak but managed to communicate despite the impediment. The report focuses on the struggle and the spokespersons remarks about the effort and outcome.
A spokesman said Miss Von Fure stenberg kicked Larry Blyden on stage causing him great physical and mental pain. The incident drew attention to a troubling on stage confrontation and its lasting impact on Blyden.
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