Broadway Buzz and Hollywood Notes From Leonard Lyons
New York column notes William P. Rogers meeting Nixon at Toots Shor's and LBJ lecturing in Austin. Other items cite Isaac Stern and Nathan Milstein, S. Hurok’s acts, Busby Berkeley attending Dames at Sea, Peter O’Toole in Figures in a Landscape, TWA Golden Rainbow flights, Valachi Papers excerpt, Balanchine Chagall sketches, Pinter film plans, Sinatra party prep, Burgess Meredith Berlioz staging, Hedy Lamarr awards quip, and a Weight Watchers anecdote about Lisa Hoffman.
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Isaac Stern
Odessa
Nathan Milstein
S. Hurok
U.S
David
Igor Oistrakh
Hurok
Stern
U.s.ussr
Busby Berkeley
New York
Peter O'Toole
Cinema Center
TWA
Newark-to
Las Vegas
Burgess Meredith
Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Symphony of New York
Carnegie Hall
New York Clinic For Mental Health
Lilli Palmer
London
Hedy Lamarr
Bob Hope opens 18th Christmas visit to Japan
Bob Hope entertained 22,000 in Tokyo at the opening of his 18th annual Christmas tour of Japan. The show featured Ann-Margret and Rosey Grier among 21 performers. The troupe will tour Korea, Okinawa, Thailand, Vietnam and Guam before departing Japan for South Korea.
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Bob Hope
Tokyo
Japan
Ted G. King
Camp Zama
Hope
Shirley MacLaine
Pearl Harbor
Ann- Margret
Roosevelt
Rosey) Grier
Linda Bennett
Dick Albers
Les Brown
Korea
Okinawa
Thailand
Vietnam
Guam
Harrell
John J. Farnelli
Brooklyn
New York
South Korea
Theater listings for Tuesday and Wednesday showings
Paramount presents The Strange Affair with multiple daily showings plus shorts. Iowa offers West Side Story matinees and evening showings. World screens If He Hollers Let Him Go with shorts. Times lists 2001 A Space Odyssey matinee and later showings. Plaza shows The Big Gundown and shorts. Marion shows The Bliss of Mrs Blossom and shorts. Collins Drive In closed except weekends.
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Paramount
Iowa
Marion
Mrs. Blossom
Kay Francis Estate Bequeaths Major Gift to Seeing Eye
Actress Kay Francis left most of her estate, valued over $1 million, to Seeing Eye Inc of Morristown New Jersey. Her will filed for probate in surrogate court on March 1967 dated terms also include 18 350 in bequests to 12 named individuals. Francis died August 26 at age 63.
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New York
Kay Francis
Seeing Eye, Inc
Morristown
N.J
Miss Francis
Boy Sniffs Glue, Collapses and Dies in Street Scene
Los Angeles police say 13 year old Jesse Escobar Jr a seventh grader collapsed and died Monday while walking along a street sniffing model airplane glue during lunch hour.
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Los Angeles
Jesse Escobar, Jr
Eulogy for a Star Tallulah Bankhead Memorial Service
New York memorial service for Tallulah Bankhead draws nearly 500 attendees. Anita Loos recalls Bankhead’s wit and humanitarianism while friends like Marc Connelly and Robert Merrill honor her flamboyant life. Bankhead left a $250 monthly annuity to Eugenia Bankhead and specified bequests to Estelle Winwood and Kenneth Carten, plus portraits and personal items to other relatives and friends.
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New York
Tallulah
Tallulah Bankhead
Eugenia
William Brockman Bankhead
Estelle Winwood
Kenneth Carten
London
Carten
Peter Sheil
Eugenia Rawls Seawell
Bankhead Leaves 23 Bequests Worth Over $100000
Actress Tallulah Bankhead left more than 100000 dollars in 23 bequests in a will filed at Manhattan surrogate court.
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New York
Tallulah Bankhead
Manhattan
Sophia Loren Expected Baby Within Weeks in Geneva
Italian actress Sophia Loren remains under close medical care in an 18th floor Geneva hotel suite. Doctors say she is due in two or three weeks after two prior miscarriages. Only her husband Carlo Ponti and close relatives are allowed near her as rumors swirl about advance sale of photos for $50,000.
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Geneva
UPI
Sophia Loren
Europe
Hubert de Watteville
Miss Loren
Carlo Ponti
Ponti
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