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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1950
Page
14
Neff brings The Greatest Mystery Show on Earth to Amarillo for a midnight engagement at the Paramount Theater on Saturday night. The program promises a family friendly illusion spectacle with glamour ghouls and a Madhouse of Mystery featuring a large company of illusionists and stage effects.
Johnny Mack Brown stars in Range Justice a Monogram western as he protects a ranchers property while going undercover in a corrupt town. Max Terhune stars in a key supporting role with Felice Ingersoll Sarah Padden Riley Hill Tristram Coffin Fred Kohler Jr Eddie Parker and Kenne Duncan in the large cast. Barney Sarecky produced Ray Taylor directed from Ronald Davidson screenplay.
Glenda Farrell’s son Tommy Farrell, the offspring of the actor and star of Pygmy Island, appears in Columbia’s Jungle Jim series alongside Johnny Weissmuller. The article notes her connection as Glenda Farrell, stage and screen performer.
The vaudeville era comes alive in Warner Bros Technicolor film The Daughter of Rosie O Grady starring June Haver and Gordon MacRae. The musical drama follows a former vaudeville performer’s daughter as she pursues the stage with help from Tony Pastor, ending in a triumphant return to the boards.
Hollywood gossip column recounts Errol Flynn attending a Navajo ceremony near Gallup New Mexico during Rocky Mountain filming. The squaws supposedly exchanged beads for male partners and Flynn bargained with a bribe, a rumor the writer dubs cheaper than past payoffs to other women. Virginia Mayo discusses London reception and British views on Captain Horatio Hornblower with Gregory Peck.
Fragmentary OCR notes list radio programs and personalities including Marlowe Jazz Jazz, insomniac news items, Bob Wills, Tin Pan Alley, Eddie Arnold, Lew Huldr?, Fulton Lewis Jr, Gabriel Heatter, and Dance Time Western Hits. It references schedules and entertainment blurbs across early 20th century broadcasts.
Sam Whiting on his 61 acre Chesterfield farm uncovered a tooth from a prehistoric mammoth and, with his son, later found additional bones and joints. Cleveland museum of natural history officials explained mammoths perished near the end of the Pleistocene about 25 000 years ago.
Olin Howlin signs with Scott Brown Productions for a comedy in Santa Fe a Technicolor Columbia picture starring Randolph Scott. Howlin plays a pioneer railroad engineer and joins Scott Janis Carter Jerome Courtland and the troupe on location near Prescott Arizona.
Using refugee labor, Greece has planted 45 million trees in a reforestation effort. The program mobilizes displaced people to restore devastated areas and bolster environmental and economic resilience.
Three Iowa relatives contest D J F Willett’s 20 000 estate left to his widow Nora Willett aged 28 in Phoenix in 1943. They claim she was not free to marry when wed to Willett and list previous Texans as husbands. The widow’s attorney says she had been married before.
Moviegoers will hear President Truman speak at 9 30 p m Amarillo time broadcast in State and Paramount theaters The Duchess of Idaho continues at Paramount while Daughter of Rosie O Grady plays at State through Thursday
Grandpn Rhodes, former Broadway character actor, signed by Columbia to play Sanborn the assistant manager at a Washington hotel in the screen version of Born Yesterday. Broderick Crawford June Holliday and William Holden also named for the long running stage comedy with the same title.
In the Technicolor musical Duchess of Idaho Williams Pic stars Esther Williams as a romance seeking aquatic star with Van Johnson John Lund and Paula Raymond in pursuit. Connie Haines Lena Horne and Eleanor Powell perform. Set in Sun Valley with water ballets a square dance jam boree and a Torch Parade ski stunt. Joe Mob?
Mel Ferrer has asked his leading lady Miroslava from Robert Rossen's The Brave Bulls for Columbia to take a top role in the Actor's Company presentation of Idiot's Delight at the La Jolla Playhouse this summer.
Esther Will ms pursues John Lund to win him for her best friend Paula Raymond. Van Johnson falls for Esther, triggering a web of schemes and double plays. The trio ends with the girls securing husbands as music and laughs fill the finale. Billy House leads as a railroad fireman in Santa Fe in Technicolor for Columbia. Chief Thundercloud Charles Meredith and Paul Stanton co star. Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
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