Night club dance listings and bands in the Panhandle
Night club venues offer weekly music and dancing with named orchestras. Aviatrix hosts Carlton Scales and Toni Ross nightly, Old Tascosa features Dick Morton and Frances Irwin with Robbie Stevenson, Avalon presents Billy Briggs and the XIT Boys, Rainbow Gardens showcases Rip Ramsey and the Texas Wanderers, Club Victoria offers nightly floor shows with Danny Shay and Paline Lombard, Roller Palace lists roller skating events.
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Rursers
Aviatrix
Carlton Scales
Toni Ross
OLD Tascosa
Dick Morton
Frances Irwin
Robbie Stevenson
Avalon
Billy Briggs
XIT Boys
Sunde
Rainbow Gardens
Rip Ramsey
Texas Wanderers
Club Victoria
Panhandle
Danny Shay
Paline Lombard
15 Collegians Plan Recital at Amarillo College
Fifteen Amarillo College music students present a Friday evening recital in the school auditorium at 8 oclock. Soloists include ten voice students under Howard Dill. featured piano works by Paul Mathis Ruth Starker and Ellis Robertson under Russell Curtis. Instrumental solos by Pauline Eldridge on saxophone and Virginia French on flute close the program under Charles Riker. Public invited with no admission charge.
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Amarillo College
Howard Dill
Ray Bowlin
Annamae Brown
Paul Hanson
James Sparkman
Marjorie Wilson
Margaret Thomas
Alfred Skagg
Hoyt Mulkey
Eddy Witt
Aurice B. Vernon
Paul Mathis
Ruth Starker
Ellis Robertson
Russell Curtis
Pauline Eldridge
Virginia French
Amarillo Man Witnesses Recent Atomic Tests
Gunners Mate Howard Milton Wilson of Amarillo has been in the Eniwetok Island area for months as part of the Seventh Task Force aboard the USS Gardner Bay. A letter from the island confirms he witnessed the recent atomic tests and was in contact with his parents at 1313 East Twelfth.
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Amarillo
Howard Milton Wilson
B. W. Wilson
East Twelfth
Eniwetok Island
Mexican farm worker recruiting request denied
A Tampico dispatch quoted by Novedades says Mexico refused 800 farm workers for Texas Mississippi and Arkansas citing alleged discrimination there. Francisco Reyes Cortes head of the Tampico Recruiting Office denied sending workers and said no plans to send them. Americans who made the request may resubmit through the US embassy in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Novedades
Tampico
Texas
Mississippi
Arkansas
Franciso Reyes Cortes
Reyes Cortes
Mom and Pop Taffs Boarders Parade for a Home
In Kansas City on May 18 a dozen boarders and the Taff family rode two cars and 13 bicycles seeking a new home. The Verles C. Taff house, leased for five years, has been sold and they must move by June 1. The group, mostly in their 20s, said they regard the Taffs as family and hope to stay together.
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Kansas City
Mom
Pop Taff
Verles C. Taff
Marion Ridgway
Weizmann Accepts Israel Presidency
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 73, a renowned scientist and statesman, accepts election as first president of the council of government of Israel. He speaks from the Waldorf Astoria, noting ill health and limited mobility while convalescing after an eye operation in 1946.
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New York
Chaim Weizmann
Council of Government of Israel
Weizmann
Waldorf-Astoria
Pair Charged in Tugboat Hand Shooting at Houston
Houston observers report a rooming house operator Jack Arnold and Nellie Rebecca Pingston were charged with assault to murder Clifford R. West a 21 year old tugboat hand on the Scout. West was wounded in the hip and hospitalized as the shooting occurred in the Clinton Drive railroad yards early Sunday.
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Houston
U.P
Clifford R. West
Jack Arnold
Nellie Rebecca Pingston
Justice of the Peace
Tom Decker
West
St. Joseph's Infirmary
Clinton Drive
Evening Screen Schedule and Features at Local Theatre
The calendar lists Ronald Coleman showtimes from 1 10 PM and feature starts at 1 31 3 34 5 37 7 40 9 43 PM. It also notes Duel in the Sun with Peck Jones Cotten and a Fox News segment plus a color musical. State run starts 1 00 and features at 1 31 4 12 6 53 9 34 PM. Esquire lists Private Affairs of Bel Ami with Sanders Lansbury plus Branding Ron s.
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Ronald Coleman
Cartoon
Paramount News
Gregory Peck
Jennifer Jones
Joseph Cotten
Fox News
Esquire
Bel Ami
George Sanders
Angela Lansbury
Rons
Paramount News Theater Listings and Film Schedule
The page lists multiple cinema showings with start times and film titles. Captiol offers Caged Fury with Cathy Downs and For You I Die with Paul Langston. Rialto features Un Caballo de Jalisco with Roberto Silva and a Mexican Newsreel. Victory presents The Senator was Indis with William Powell and Ellains. Leon screens Lady Luck with Robert Young Barbara Hale and Tarzan's Desert Mystery. Rex shows Ivy with Joan Fontaine and Richard Ney. Star presents The Woman with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. Liberty features Song of the Range with Jimmy Wakely and That Brennan Girl with James Dunn Mona Freeman. Lyric lists Searching Wind with Robert Young Sylvia Sydney and Desperate with Steve Brolay Audrey.
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Paramount News
Capitol
Cathy Downs
Paul Langston
Rialto
Roberto Silva
William Powell
Ella Ins
Leon
Robert Young
Barbara Hale
REX
Joan Fontaine
Richard Ney
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Liberty
Jimmy Wakely
Brennan
James Dunn
Mona Freeman
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Roller Skating Roller Palace
Sixth and
Jefferson
By Angelo
Wilson
Gardner Bay
Everglades
the Circus
Marine Grill
EL Rancho
S. Fillmore
Claude Persefield
Israel
The
Hardin College
Wichita Falls, Texas
Maxor Drug
Joo! Sandie
Nixon Jr. High
Sam Houston Jr. High
Bad Thad
Ansley Cleaners
Washington
Sylvia Sydney
Steve Brolay
Mexico
Sea Foods
Fep
Song OF the Range
James Dunn and
Brennan Girl
Sylvia Sidney
Steve Brodie
Audrey Long
HE IS
Powell
Ella Raines
Arleen Whelen
Peter Lind Heyes
Johnny Weismueller
Tarzan
Frank Morgan
Lady Luck
Ivy
Paulette Goddard
Rosalind Russell
Marjorie Main
Rainbow Club
N. E
Jimmy Campbell
Ourenu
Paul Bunyan
W” Pe“ Coffee
Amarillo Hotel
Cried Chicken Restaurant
6Th Ave
KVAI
Divnce
Dick Worton and His Orchestra
Roller Palace
Sertrnson
Duro
Georgia
Dorothy McGuire
Guy Madison
Bert Lancaster
Admission Inc. Fed
Metrai
N. E. 8Th
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Treasury
Dennis O’keefe
Mery Meade
Alfred Ryder
Welly Ford
June Locknart
Charles McGraw
Aubrey Schenck
Anthony Mena
Eve
Ronald Colman
Edmond O'Brien
Signe Hasso
Phillip Loeb
Ray Collins
Tony Ross
BIG Features
Cathy Paul Downs
Langton
Lee Ett
Richard Swena Denning
Ryan
Paramount Picture
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