Musicals Take Over Summer Shows in New York
The summer theater scene shifts toward musical package shows with 2000 plus performers employed. Gus Schirmer Jr notes growth from early outdoor ventures like the 1918 St. Louis Municipal Opera to touring stock formats and indoor venues. Oklahoma! and other shows ride the trend, while stars like Shirley Booth back newer productions and Carol Haney moves from Broadway to Hollywood.
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Mary Murphy Discovered While Wrapping at Saks
Mary Murphy was discovered for the movies while working as a wrapper at Saks. She appeared with John Payne in Pine Thames Love Is A Weapon and was photographed for Teen and Paramount Vision, marking her early entry into the film industry.
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Hollywood unit shoots two pictures at Paramount
Hollywood Calif July 2 For the first time in their 14 year career producers Wil and William Thomas have two pictures shooting simultaneously on the sound stages at Paramount. The unit's Run For Cover troupe returned to Hollywood to proceed with both productions.
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Double Duty Day At Durango Cast On Location
Durango crew and cast led by James Cagney Viceca Lindfors John Derek and Jean Hersholt have spent four weeks on location. They will move to sound stages tomorrow to photograph interiors for a Technicolor VistaVision adventure drama set in the West. Nick Ray directs the production. Also at Paramount Pine-Thomas Love is a Weapon stars John Payne and Mary Murphy with Phil Harlson directing. Production began June 7 and uses Technicolor and VistaVision.
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Pine-Thomas
John Payne
Mary Murphy
Phil Harlson
Paramount
Lill Russell Museum Opens in New York on 14th Street
The Lillian Russell Museum featuring mementos and personal belongings opens on the second floor of Luchow's on 14th Street. Items include dresses, fans, handkerchiefs, autographs, letters, posters, and programs from Russell’s stage career. Helen Hayes serves as honorary curator.
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Air-Minded Schools Operate 111 Planes
New York report shows America's colleges and universities operate a fleet of 111 airplanes for aviation education. The ATA survey covers 47 states and Hawaii, detailing aircraft used for airline training aerial spraying air mapping and photogrammetry.
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Billy Graham Sails Home From Tour
Paris reports Billy Graham completed a European crusade tour drawing about 2.3 million attendees across nations including Britain Sweden Finland Denmark Netherlands Germany and France. In Paris he addressed 3,000 ministers and church workers at Palais de Chaillot calling for a spiritual revival in France and a broader awakening in the Western world.
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Shorty Rogers Emerges as Jazz Artist in RCA Debut
New York reports the emergence of Shorty Rogers as an RCA Victor artist signaling a rising trend in modern jazz. The piece praises Rogers as trumpeter and arranger and notes his two RCA Victor LPs as well as contemporaries like Shelly Manne and Dizzy Gillespie, with other labels like Contemporary and Columbia also highlighted for notable releases.
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Boy Stabbed By Hoodlums Near Death
EAST LOS ANGELES July 2 UP A 1 year old boy lies near death after a gang of about 18 attacked a church social group. They stormed the church in six cars injuring 30 people with jagged wine bones knives and tire irons. Marcos Avila 19 is in critical condition from two stab wounds in the lungs. George Flores 15 Richard Juarez 17 and Paul M Martinez 19 are in serious condition after deep stab wounds.
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General Hospital
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Stone Cellar May Have Been Built Long Ago
UPTON M July 2p An old stone vegetable cellar on Charles Pearson's property may have been built 1000 years ago. Archaeologists estimate the age as ancient and Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer who inspected the cellar, said it resembled a known Arctic Circle antler ice site and another in Japan.
Fifth Season Opens in New York Garment District
Broad way opens with the long run comedy The Fifth Season about the cloak and salt trade. Critics note the title mirrors a local phrase about the garment district the five seasons being spring summer fall and slack. The term originated as a gag from Sylvia Regan in the play.
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Sylvia Regan
Garment District
Hersholt Joins Cast in Run For Cover Film
Jean Hersholt joins James Cagney Viveca Lindfors and John Derek in Pine Thomas Run For Cover a vivid color Technicolor Paramount VistaVision production about a high profile crime and its repercussions.
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James Cagney
Viveca Lindfords
John Derek
Pine-Thomas
Paramount
Pine-Thomas Blue Horizons Opens Lewis and Clark Film
Hollywood's outdoor spectacle feature Pine-Thomas' Blue Horizons tells the Lewis and Clark Expedition tale with stars Fred MacMurray Charlton Heston and Donna Reed in a Paramount Picture designed as the year's biggest outdoor release.
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Blue Horizons
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Donna Reed
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