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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1952
Page
4
Cedar Rapids theaters present a varied week with Abbott and Costello comedy Lost in Alaska and musical stars like Mario Lanza plus a slate of co features. New and classic films headline at the Iowa Paramount State and Town venues, with lists including Back at the Front Lady in the Iron Mask Son of Ali Baba and more.
Stage critic notes The Sacred Flame revival with Frances Starr exposes why the 1928 flop endured only 24 performances. The melodrama centers on a paraplegic husband, his wife, a handsome brother, and a jealous nurse amid upper-class English drawing-room tension. The piece is not a true whodunit and offers a fragile, tension-laced ending.
The Gazette lists today and tomorrow matinee and evening showings for Paramount Iowa State Town Palace Times Strand Marion and C.R. Drive In theatres. Films include Monkey Business Lost in Alaska Arizona Raiders Son of Ali Baba Kansas Territory With a Song in My Heart Night Stage to Galveston Lovely To Look At Dakota Lil Were Not Married Outcasts of Poker Flat Family Secret Ten Tall Men We’re Not Married D O A Weekend with Father Adventures of Gallant Bess and more with varying start times from early afternoon to late night.
Hollywood funnyman Danny Kaye angered Danish officials by portraying Hans Christian Andersen in a four million dollar film and later visiting the Andersen museum. Danish authorities protested his casting and a Danish society accused him of misconduct after he posed for controversial photos. Kaye defended his trip as respectful and said photographers followed him.
The piece describes Danny Kaye posing for museum photos in England and staging a humorous hospital room scene that drew House of Commons protests. Health Minister Iain MacLeod ordered an official inquiry while the entertainer’s medical interests and surgeries are noted.
Joseph Calleia began his career in London music halls as a singer of Scottish ballads before rising to film. His breakout as a villain came with the unscrupulous river trader role in The Iron Mistress, marking a climactic point in his screen career.
Folk singer George Morgan of WSM’s Grand Ole Opry will perform at Memorial Coliseum Thursday at 8 15 p m. His Columbia recordings include Candy Kisses Please Dont Let Me Love You Rainbow in My Heart Room Full of Roses and Cry Baby Heart His latest songs are I Wish I May I Wish I Might Waltzing by the Ohio Broken Candy Heart Mansion over the Hilltop and Almost The Candy Kids provide musical support with Ken Marvin as emcee Jerry Byrd Autry Inman Floyd Robinson and Don Slayman
The Happy Time at the Dee Little theater features the Bonnard family of Ottawa with an outrageous prop list. Items include a water cooler filled with white wine, jeweled garters, La Vie Parisienne, a frog legs plate, a 1920 vacuum, a catcher’s mask, lacy nightgowns, and a blood pressure gauge. Properties Chairman Mrs George Lindsay oversees the quirky setup as the show opens October 21.
Hollywood star Frankie Darro celebrates thirty years in film by signing for his five hundredth screen role in Siren of Bagdad. He began his career in September 1922 at age four in Judgment of the Storm.
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