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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1966
Page
13
Broadway by Louis Sobol surveys figures from the Manila conference plan costing about 600000 for a ground station beam to Comsat. It contrasts Columbus era costs with today while noting Peter Weiss play plans and credits various entertainers and industry happenings.
Wieland Wagner, 48, famed for modern Bayreuth stagings of his grandfather Richard Wagner's operas, died in Munich university clinic after illness revealed during Bayreuth rehearsals. He had been slated to direct Lohengrin at New York's Metropolitan Opera before falling ill. Death attributed to a blood ailment. brother Wolfgang oversaw festival duties during Wieland's illness.
Hollywood notes praise the nine minute ABC TV Brigadoon adaptation starring Robert Goulet Sally Ann Howes and Peter Falk as a refined revival of television musical theater. The critic lauds its gentle pace mood and elegance while praising the cast and songs including Come to Me Bend to Me Heather on the Hill and Almost Like Being in Love.
Maurice Chevalier drew a full house at the Waldorf-Astoria Empire Room as fellow musicians picketed. Hotels and clubs reached last minute settlements to keep Sunday shows, with several raising base pay to 167 for five days. Max L. Arons ordered the picket line after Local 802 rejected a management offer.
Montage of cinema listings from Paramount Iowa World Marion and other venues shows titles like Fantastic Voyage Return of the Seven North by North West Alphabet Murders The Sound of Music and Nevada Smith with various showtimes The text ends with a remark about youths fleeing captors during wartime and an army leader claiming escape would keep them busy fleeing.
John Drew Barrymore, 34, son of the late John Barrymore, faces marijuana possession charges after a sheriff's raid that saw 12 people arrested Saturday. He was released the next day on a $3,300 bail.
In Swinderby England a reform school unit will teach a group of youths confined there lessons on how to escape. The program aims to study escape methods as part of security training for the army unit involved.
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