Hollywood News and Broadway Notes with Major Joppolo
Fredric March set to sign for Major Joppolo in A Bell for Adano on Broadway with Leland Hayward aiming for September opening. Maggie Sullavan’s success fuels theater interest. Joan Crawford negotiating for Bella Donna lead. Zasu Pitts heads back to film in Ten Little Indians. Mervyn LeRoy test interest prompts lift. Dick Irving Hyland sold The Gay Echo for 10000 and has six stories plus a film and a scenario in sixteen months.
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Maggie Sullavan
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JTTLE
Joyce Reynolds
Warner
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Mildred Pearce
Joan Crawford
la Crawford
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Gay Echo
Hyland
Phillips Resigns as Ike's Adviser
The state department announced that William Phillips resigned as political adviser to General Eisenhower. He has served in London and at SHAEF and will return to the United States next month for urgent family reasons. Phillips formerly held posts as undersecretary of state ambassador to Italy and special emissary to India.
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Italy
India
Food Dealers Picnic Brings Circus and Races to Hawkeye Downs
Linn County Retail Food Dealers annual picnic and carnival features Harness racing events at 2 p.m including 2:24 pace 2:18 trot and 2:18 pace with $600 in purses. Boys and girls races provide relays and dashes with $50 in prizes. Jay Gould circus performs at 8 p.m. Grandstand seats free. Refreshments on midway. Tickets via local grocery stores.
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Jay Gould
Linn County Retail Food Dealers Association
Hawkeye Downs
Rolling wedding on wheels ties rink romance in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg, Corporal Martin E. Blackwood and Edna May Weader wed on a roller rink with 500 guests in skates. The couple, from Zanesville Ohio and Harrisburg, met on roller skates and held a double ring ceremony as an organist played wedding music, a first of its kind in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Martin E. Blackwood
Corporal Blackwood
Zanesville
Edna May Weader
Pennsylvania
Between Two Worlds at State Theatre
A review of the Broadway play and film era showing of Between Two Worlds. The crewless ship story follows dead passengers learning their fate as Edmund Gwenn guides them with quiet restraint. Strong turns by Garfield, Henreid and Greenstreet anchor a solid but not great production.
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Sydney Greenstreet
Brothers
Edward A. Y. Blatt
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Sutton Vane
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Paul Henreid
Eleanor Parker
Gaz
John Garfield
George Tobias
George Coulouris
Faye Emerson
Dennis King
Garfield
Henreid
Greenstreet
Harriet Hilliard
Ozzie
Nelson musical functions in second feature Hi Lookin
Gene Farmer notes the Nelson troupe handles the second feature Hi Lookin with a musical combination. The piece showcases coordinated staging and performance elements.
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Nelson
Gene Farmer
Old Folks' Day Proposed By Senator Pepper
Edgar A. Guest narrates a poem celebrating the idea of an Old Folks Day to honor grandparents. The speaker recalls family rituals and holidays, and imagines seniors enjoying tributes, gifts, and a festive celebration as autumn closes the fiscal year. The piece playfully envisions aging with joy and vitality.
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Pepper
Grandpa
Friday Theater Schedule Per The Gazette
The Gazette lists Friday showings for Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto and Times theaters. Feature films include Double Indemnity Mr Skeffington Between Two Worlds Lifeboat Blazing Frontier Miracle of Morgan's Creek The Fighting Seabees and The Falcon Out with multiple daily entries and short subjects.
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Mr Skeffington at Iowa theater with Bette Davis
Ferne Gater reviews the Warner Brothers drama starring Bette Davis as Fanny Skeffington. Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard War ing and George Coulouris co star in a tale of vanity, love, and aging. The double feature includes She's a Soldier Too with Beulah Bondi and Nina Foch.
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Nina Foch
Claude Rains
Walter Abel
Richard Waring
George Coulouris
Marjorie Riordan
Vincent Sherman
Skeffington
Bette Davis
Clay Rains
Warner Brothers
Iowa Theater
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Elizabeth
Fanny
Mr. Skeffington
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Job
Europe
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Marjorie Riordananny, Jr
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Mandy
Miss Davis
Fire Devours Historic Harbor Grace in Newfoundland
A Thursday jam factory blaze in Harbor Grace Newfoundland destroyed much of the town. The fire raced through tinder dry buildings and homes, starting in the eastern end near the waterfront street, leaving half the ancient town in smoking ruins.
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Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Deposit It In Receptacles At School Grounds Or Fire Stations
Residents are advised to place the item in receptacles located at school grounds or fire stations. Call 3-2601 and OCD truck will call if the load is sufficient to warrant a trip.
Turns on Faucet And Strikes Oil
In Aurora Illinois Mr and Mrs H C Rivin reportedly struck oil Thursday simply by turning on a faucet at their home. Oil flowed from every faucet for 26 hours before stopping. Professors from Aurora College confirmed the find and planned further tests.
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Wildcatters
H. C. Rivin
Bivin
Bivin Links Oil Seepage to Fox River Blasts
Land Bivin theorized that recent blasting across the Fox River may have opened a fissure in the earth permitting oil to seep into his water supply.
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Land Bivin
Fox River
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