Will Rogers films revive at the Bay Theatre this week
The Bay Theatre brings back two Will Rogers features through Saturday. Steam Boat Round the Bend stars Rogers as a pedlar who becomes captain of the Pride of Fallucah in a steamboat race saga directed by John Ford. Also shown is David Harum with Rogers as a country banker befriending Kent Taylor and aiding a romance. Houston theater notes add Rudolfo Friml's The Vagabond King opening at 5:15 p.m. with John Brownlee and Marguerite Piazza leading a summer operetta run.
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Baytown Library Appeals for Donations to Boost Books
Baytown library faces budget shortfalls with 16 branches and a bookmobile. Local donors led by the Friends group donate 25 dollars monthly for 11 months to fund extra copies and new titles, while circulation remains high across adult and juvenile fiction and non fiction.
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Anybody Got A Sharp Knife In Ramblin Around
Ramblin Around notes a Terrapin Derby in the Baytown area and Galveston opening events on Friday night. Ted Weems performs at Marine Room while Fe Pleasure Pier debuts. Arabia Temple Fathers and Sons Banquet in Houston and Vagabond King opens at Music Hall contrast with banquet fare. Readers ponder which to attend as a sharp knife joke circulates.
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Girl Bears Feud Keeps Winter Sleep Shortened
In Winniper, two female brown bears Hessy and Bessy at Citr. Zoo refuse to hibernate, staying awake most of winter. Keeper Robert Wilks notes they wake after three to four days and quarrel, interrupting each other with bouts of fighting, delaying their long sleep.
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Air Force Hero Of The Big Lift Sneak Preview
The Big Lift shows the Berlin Airlift to keep Berlin alive during the Russian blockade. Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas star as American air crewmen with a love triangle and political tensions. German actresses Miss Borchers and Miss Lobel oppose their views. The Berlin setting and authentic devastation shape the drama.
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Jet Engine To Open Galveston Pleasure Pier
Officials and dignitaries gather for the ribbon ceremony at 6 pm as Galveston opens the $2,000,000 Pleasure Pier for a third season. Mayor Cartwright to burn the ribbon using a jet engine previewed in the free science show. Ted Weems hosts the event with Billy Blair Glen West Russ Carter and Bonnie Ann Shawn providing entertainment at the Marine Room.
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Audie Murphy Donates Medals to Children Across Nation
Hollywood based actor Audie Murphy says he has given away his Medal of Honor to his eight year old nephew Wel don Burns of Farmersville Texas. Other medals including the Distinguished Service Cross went to Claudine Tipton of Erwin Tennessee and a Dallas dealer Ray Woods. Murphy says he wanted children to have his medals and could not recall all the recipients names. His ex wife Wanda Hendrix holds the ministerial items given to medal recipients.
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