World War II Drama Rings True in 20th Century Fox Film
The film adapts Agnes Newton Keith's memoir of wartime captivity in Japanese camps. Stars Claudette Colbert and Sessue Hayakawa with director Jean Negulesco. It portrays Keith and companions facing humiliation, separation from families, and hope amid fear, with restrained dramatization and no overt propaganda.
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20Th Century
Fox Picture
Nunnally Johnson
Agnes Newton Keith
Jean Megulesco
Keith Claudette Colbert
Keit
Patric Knowles
Suga Sessue Hayakawa
Theaters Roundup of Western and Early Talkie Films
A busy slate lists Paramount through Monday including Three Men with Claudette Colbert and Patric Knowles and My Foolish Heart with Susan Maynard and Dana Andrews. Other venues run through Saturday featuring The Great Tipao Robbery with Tom Conway, Arctic Paradise, The New Yaene, South Sea Nner, No Minor Leagues, Loaded Pistols with Gene Autry and Barbara Britton, Son of Davy Crockett, When Willie Comes Marching Home, and more plus multiple cartoons and regional titles acrossCapitol Ritz Chief and South venues.
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Susan Maynard
Dana Andrews
Tom Conway
Delambre
Eve Miller
Meat Loaf Dinner Cost Incurred Burnt $500 in Oven
In Miami Oklahoma on a Wednesday night Mrs. Carter baked a meat loaf for dinner. John Carter, returning from work, stored $500 of receipts in the broiler compartment and discovered the meat loaf burnt as a result.
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Miami
Okla
John Carter
Four Awarded Legion Medals at Local Junior High
Four Austin junior high students received the annual American Legion Award with scrolls on Thursday. Two boys and two girls from Allen and University Junior High were honored by Legion official Joe Greenhill. Winners: Patsy White Darrell Jones Adele Black Thomas E Wiley.
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Austin
American Legion
Allen and University
Joe Greenhill
Legion
Patsy White
Forrest A White
Winsted Lane
Darrell Jones
J Darrell Jones
Watchill Road
Allen Junior High
Adele Black
Hulon Black
Bowman Road
Thomas E. Wiley
Liberty
Body of Lt Seiders Arrives in Austin After War Death
The body of Lieutenant Pinkney W. Seiders arrives in Austin on Friday. He was a bombardier killed in action overseas. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs O W Seiders of Austin daughter Carol Jane Seiders of Bryan five brothers and a sister and grandmother all of Austin. Funeral Saturday at 3 p.m. Cook Funeral Home with full military honors Oakwood Cemetery. Guard of honor firing squad from Bergstrom AFB led by Major Horace H Shelton colors by DAV and American Legion.
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Pinkney W. Seiders
Austin
Seiders
O. W. Seiders
Carol Jane Seiders
Bryan
Doris Seiders
Helen Seiders
Herman Seiders
Eugene Seiders
Willis Seiders
Joe Seiders
Weller Seiders
H. Magness
Cook Funeral Home
E. L. Sparks
Lt. Seiders
Oakwood Cemetery
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Horace H. Shelton
Disabled American Veterans
The
American Legion
Diplomas to Be Awarded at AHS and UT Ceremonies
Nearly 2,450 seniors from the University of Texas and Austin High School will receive diplomas as the 1950-51 year ends. William L. McGill will deliver the Austin High School commencement address to 442 graduates at Gregory Gymnasium Friday at 8 p.m. Jerry Chandler will speak for the class, and Rev. Darrell Gray will offer the invocation. W. I. Kocurek will award the diplomas. Governor Allan Shivers will speak at UT on the Main Building Terrace Saturday at 8 p.m. for about 2,000 graduates, with University President Dr. T. S Painter presenting the governor.
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University of Texas
Austin High School
Austin
William L. McGill
Allan Shivers
Gregory Gymnasium
Jerry Chandler
Darre
L Gray
W. I. Kocurek
Austin School Board
T. S Painter
Shivers
Mrs. Lucinda Watson Dies in San Antonio
Mrs. Lucinda Watson dies at her home in San Antonio on Thursday. Survived by six daughters including Velma Craddock Louetta Pitts Winona Corbett Maytle Mills Edith Colbath and Etta Riley all of San Antonio and a son Ed Watson of Driftwood. Burial Friday at 1 p.m. at Driftwood Cemetery.
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Lucinda Watson
San Antonio
Louetta Pitts
Etta Riley
Austin
Velma Craddock
Winona Corbett
Maytle Mills
Edith Colbath
Ed Watson
Driftwood
Driftwood Cemetery
Fingerprints Defy Attempts to Obliterate Them
Texas Bureau of Identification and Records chief Glen H. Mc Laughlin notes undetected prints after clever tampering. The piece explains classification by pattern and characteristics, explains the jacket file, and cites the 600000 fingerprints on file plus 250 personal prints. It covers bureau structure created 1935 and ongoing publication of a weekly law enforcement bulletin.
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Glen H. McLaughlin
Texas Bureau of Identification and Records
Texas
McLaughlin
Mr. X
Washington
Ile
Adjutant General
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Paramount
Three Me
Claudette Colbert
Capitol
the Neyaeene
Rendeips Scott
Dorothy Malone
Varsity
South Seanner
Ee & Elley Winters
Maconald Care
RITZ
Davy Crockett
Bill Elliott
Willie
Dan Dailey
Corinne Calvet
Desrens
Tim Holt
Richard Artin
Wille
Texas Terrors
Don Barry
Julie Duncan
Id Setugany
the Red Ony
Ith Yrn
Robert Mitchum
Mark Stevens
June Haver
South
Wichita
Allan
Rocky” Lane
Montopolis
Seores
Murphy
Ricardo = Mon
Sacramento
Meat Loaf
Poe
Frigidaire
Raymond
Loewy
H. L. Arnold Co., Inc
Congress
Austin, Texas
AHS
Bureau
Texas Department of Public Safter
Camp Mabry
Federal Bureau of Investiga
Sandahl Beverages
East
Pepsi-Cola Co
New York
ABC
Shaw
WAAC
EED
Congress Ave
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