Academy Awards in Crisis as Studios Balk at Funding
Jean Hersholt warned the 1948 Oscars may end without studio support. He quoted MPPA head Eric Johnston and cited Columbia Universal and Republic as noncontributors. The Hamlet win sparked industry hostility to Oscar standards and calls for greater studio backing.
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Hollywood
Parai Shakespeare
Oliver
Hamlet
Jean Hersholt
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Hersholt
New York
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Academy
Columbia
Universal
Republic
MPPA
Eric Johnston
Olivier
Henry
Eversholt
Hollywood in trouble as studios chase quick profits
Steve Perkins argues Hollywood risks artistic quality by draining the pool for commercial pictures. State Theater shows Hamlet at 5 p.m. Friday for Austin public school students and teachers with unreserved seating and tickets at $1 including tax. The film runs two hours and 35 minutes.
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State Theater
Austin Public School
Tribute dinner honors Thompson for 30 years in Texas journalism
Thompson director of the University of Texas School of Journalism will be honored at a 7 p m tribute dinner in the Crystal Ballroom Driskill Hotel. Speakers include Lloyd Gregory Wayne Sellers J W Murphree Weldon Hart with gifts totaling 1000 for a student scholarship fund.
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Paull. Thompson
University of Texas School of Journalism
Texas
Crystal Ballroom
Driskill Hotel
Lloyd Gregory
The
Houston Post
Thompson
David M. Warren
Board of
Regents
Panhandle
Wayne C. Sellers
J. W. Murphree
Fort Worth
Weldon Hart
Austin
Sellers
Murphree
Hart
Beauford H. Jester
Sigma Dieta Chi
William L. McGill
Jester
University of Texas
Pin Ball Devices To Help Schools
Judge Thurman directs confiscated one ball pinball machines to be sent to the University of Texas for experiments and the wooden cabinets to the Texas School for the Blind. Slot machines remain to be destroyed or burned. Agencies must request parts with receipts filed. no single agency gets all parts. Money found on the tables goes to the county treasurer.
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Mace Thurman Jr
County Court-at-Law
Thurman
Ernest Best
University of Texas
Texas School For the Blind
County Not Obligated To Supply Demo Offices
The attorney general ruled that Dallas County Commissioners Court has no duty to provide office space to the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee. The ruling allows the county to rent space in other public buildings if such space is not needed for public use.
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Dallas County Commissioners Court
Dallas County
Democratic Executive Committee
Attorney General's Department
Will R. Wilson Jr
Dallas
John Reeves
Movie Showtimes and Features Across Dallas Drive-Ins
A garbled listing of film titles and showtimes across multiple Texas drive-ins. Notable entries include Kiss the Blood Off My Hands with Joan Fontaine, Sea of Grass with Spencer Tracy, The Pirate with Judy Garland, Blondie's Secret with Penny?ington, and The State of the Union with Spencer Tracy.
Fat lambs in Omaha set new all time market record
Fat lambs on the Omaha livestock market rose to a new all time high at 31 dollars and 35 cents, ten cents above the prior record for old crop woolskins, reported from Omaha on Wednesday.
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Fat Lambs
Omaha
Four Way Stop Signs to Spread in Austin
Traffic Engineer Chester Lay announced Wednesday that four way stop signs at busy intersections have proven successful and will be spread over Austin. Test sites include South First and Live Oak, South First and Mary, 51st and Duval, and Bruning. He noted everyone stops, traffic flows, and accidents are reduced. Officers report courteous driving at these intersections.
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Austin
Chester Lay
South First
Live Oak
Mary
51St
Duval and Bruning
Lay
Court Records Snapshot of District and County Filings
A compilation of court actions across 126th to county courts including divorces for Ruby Lee Gillum and Julia Medearis, note and lien cases with Capital Credit Company, injunctions for Lalla M Odom, inheritance tax filings for Anna Belle Hilgarther Pendleton, multiple complaints of swindling and unlawful arms carrying in county and county at law courts, burglaries in justices courts, and marriage licenses for Earl Reineman and Lora Lee with new cars registered to local residents and dealers.
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L3rd District Court
Gardner
Capital Credit Company
Henry Reyes
Oscar Collier
Glenn Longley
Julia Medearis
George F. Medearis
Lalla M. Odom
Margaret Stroh
Johnson
Anna Belle Hilgarther Pendleton
Manus C. Lott
Fanny Clack
Plaintiff Wins 20000 in Suit Against Gas Company
A 98th District Court jury awarded Eugene Lloyd 20000 damages after finding fault by the Texas Public Service Company in the West Sixth Street Barbecue and Market explosion of January 19, 1948. Lloyd sought 85000, with the case ending after a two week and three day trial and three hours of deliberation.
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98Th District Court
Eugene Lloyd
Wallace Engraving Company
Texas Public Service Company
Lloyd
West Sixth Street
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Penny Singleton
Arthur Lake
Kent Taylor
Flight
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Evelyn Keys
George O’brien
Ray Whitley
Aterstat
Lizabeth Scott
Jona Payre
Boxoffice
A J. Arthur Rank Enterprise
Laurence
Oumer Filmier A
Wartam Shakespeare
Filippo del Giudice
Theatre Guild
Steve Perkins
Sierra Madre
Rome
Tchaikovsky
Sim Cedric Hardwicke
Madonna
Ith
Phyllis Calvert
Stewart Granger
Virginia Mayo
Bruce Bennett
Af Capitol
Burt Ne
Ayon
Dodeo
le Theatres
North Austin
Spencer Tracy
Katharine On
South Austin
Treasure of
Humphrey Bogart
Waiter Huston
Montopolis
the Pirate
Judy Gariand
Gene Kelly
Locket
Hegman
Margaret O’brien
George Murphy
Betty Garret
Edward
Dick Powell
Igebeth
Start Powell
STATE
Threvend
Jean Nem
Urence
N Simmons
Atures
Joan Fontaine
Sundstrom
Phville
Feares
Virginia Magcatures
O'brien
Sea of Grass
Fane
Fignees
State of the Union
Spencer
Peure
Judy Garland
Teterary
Penningleton
Kent Tay
Dessau Hall
Dolores
Blue Bonnet Boys
Hilltop Inn
Burnet Hiway
Uncle Gus
San Antonio
Jesse James
All the Boys
Buttreys
Houston Coliseum
Houston
Walt Disney
7 Dwarfs
Sam Houston Coliseum
Austin Buttreys
Golden West Playboys
KTAE
Taylor
Count Carlo Sforza
Countess Sforza
Count Sforza
United States
Washington
126Th District Court
Roberts
Ruby Lee Gillum
William Clark
Lee Brust
Dammy Lee Brust
Betts
Melvin O. C. Swan
James William Swan
G. A. Johnson
Zade O. Galbreath
W. M. Hoover
William B. Croppleman
Ivan Ferneal Robbins
Justice Cover
Blakeslee
J. P
Reginald Walker
Justice Court
Nairn
William Tillvan Arledge
Limberg
Earl Reineman
Lora Lee
Heffington
Theron Z. Hancock
Plymouth
Lee B. Mercer
Nash
Louis W. Bartling
Chevrolet
Charles E. Benedict
C. E. Ryals
J. S&s. Edwards Jr
Ford
Emil Nigegli
Studebaker
Schaffer’s
the Greeting Card Center
Congress
Little Theatre
Saengerrunde
Cookie
Rio Grande
Randy
New
Neches
Will T
1509
East 6Th St
Carlin
Lale Genzaies
W. S
Bill
Westbrook Radio Clinic
Dial
N. Loop Blvd
Ave. F
Johnny Clark
Calvert
Calvert Reserve
Calvert Distillers Corp
New York City
Turkey
Solanae Armamacer
Buck Steiner Arena
City
East Riverside Drive
J. R. Reed Music CO
C & S Sporting Goods
Capitol Saddlery
Christian Science Healing
Earl Simms
C. S. of
Austin, Texas
Mother Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusetts
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