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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1947
Page
23
John Cowan 2215 Hughes Baltimore Maryland died Monday Services 4 PM Thursday Blackburn Shaw Chapel Interment Liano Cemetery
OPA and housing expediter cases opened in federal court today with hearings set for Virginia C Higgins Estate Jim Akles J W Head W F Freeman W C Dever and E M Williamson. Tomorrow the docket lists John H White and J C Stevens as defendants alongside others including B V Miller George R Canady Etta Canady Mra R J Hines doing business as St James Hotel James J Roban Aleen Salmon and J C Basden.
Betty Hutton and Barry Fitzgerald star in The Stork Club at the Leon Theater today and Thursday. The film presents an uptown Cinderella tale framed around the famed club with a modern twist and avoids the traditional waking romance ending.
Records show average daily counts of 760 home fires 49 store fires 80 factory fires 6 church fires 6 school fires and 3 hospital fires across the nation.
Abbott and Costello star in Buck Privates Come Home about military life and adopting a French orphan girl played by Beverly Simmons. Tom Brown and Nat Pendleton co star as Joan Fulton romances stir. Slave Girl a Tripoli treasure chase melodrama with George Brent Yvonne DeCarlo features later.
Raymond Osgood and Jack Thomas, both escapees from the men’s reformatory, were picked up by Sheriff Don Scheneck while hitchhiking on a Lincoln highway and returned to jail.
Selznick's Duel in the Sun continues two more days in Amarillo on a roadshow run with advanced pricing. The Technicolor Western melodrama stars Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten Lionel Barrymore Walter Huston and Lillian Gish.
Wednesday film lineups feature Rex Harrison Maureen O Hara in The Foxes of Harrow at Paramount. Western Carnival Movietone News and Buck Privates Come Home shown in state Capitol Rialto and Leon listings with multiple daily showings. Also Miracle on 34th Street and Duel in the Sun play with other features and nightly variety acts at Liberty Lyric and night clubs. Riders and Gunman From Bodie double bills listed among westerns, with rides and cafe scenes outlined. Open Rainbow Garden and Aviatrix clubs schedule acts for the night.
Saturday nights feature Rip Ramsey and the Texas Wanderers at Rumpus Room Thoras Dinner House with Otis Wyatt on piano nightly except Sunday. Mexican Inn offers dining and dancing in El Patio and Serape Room. Old Tascosa showcases Dick Morton and Polly Lowe with nightly vocals. Roller Skating Roller Palace on Sixth and Jefferson provides afternoon and evening sessions daily.
A double feature at the Liberty Theater shows today and Thursday. Ride Tenderfoot Ride stars Gene Autry alongside The Bachelor's Daughters with Gail Russell and Claire Trevor. Adolph Menjou plays the bachelor in a plot involving four salesgirls seeking rich suitors in a Long Island mansion.
The film Dark Passage starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall opens Thursday at the Paramount Theater. Directed by Delmer Daves, it follows Bogart as an escaped convict seeking to prove his innocence with Agnes Moorehead Bruce Bennett Tom DAndrea as co stars. Filmed around San Francisco including the Golden Gate Bridge. music by Franz Waxman. Also notes Madagascar will receive three million dollars in UNRRA aid to build its drug industry.
The Capitol theater presents Possessed starring Joan Crawford with Van Heflin and Raymond Massey plus Geraldine Brooks in key roles. The program runs today and Thursday with Abie’s Irish Rose also featured and Miss Susie Slagle’s at Lyric Theater.
Britain grapples with a sand bag shortage as it rebuilds and stores wartime materials. Authorities note over 400 million sand bags disposed of since the war, underscoring ongoing demobilization and cleanup challenges.
A fragmented schedule rundown lists NBC soap operas such as Ma Perkins Pepper Voches Life Can Be Desatifus and Backstage Wife along with NBC and ABC variety features including Paul Whiteman Club and Crosby Serenade Bride and Groom. Also noted are program brands like Stella Dallas and Listen Ladies with a brief mention of the Time Tom Brenneman Award.
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