Celebrity fund drive for Texas hall heads by Neiman Marcus
Lawrence Marcus leads a $2,000,000 single-night benefit to fund a Texas concert hall with talent lined up including The Beatles Sinatra Streisand Bernstein Callas Burton. Also notes drama critics circle changes and remarks on Barbra Streisand, Samuel Goldwyn, Arletty, and Chicago politics for 1968 elections.
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New York
Texas
Lawrence Marcus
Neiman- Marcus
Lyons
the Beatles
Frank Sinatra
Leonard Bernstein
Barbra Streisand
Maria Callas
Richard Burtons
Theaters Schedule Listing For Tuesday And Wednesday
Theaters show The Incident at Paramount with multiple daily times and shorts. The Bible plays Wednesday matinee, plus Iowa Plaza presents The Jungle Book and the Ugly with several showings. World screens Firecreek and its shorts at frequent intervals. Marion features A Man for All Seasons with evening showings and shorts intervals.
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Iowa
TV Makes War a Grim Nightly Experience
Television's rapid satellite relay from Saigon turns the Viet Cong uprising into a vivid nightly reality for viewers worldwide. Camera crews show disturbing violence and chaos, challenging official explanations and highlighting hunger and shortages as war reporting enters a new era of immediacy and public scrutiny.
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New York
Saigon
Japan
United States
Washington
Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
Don Ameche Plays Bell In Shadow Over Elveron
Hollywood star Don Ameche recalls his film role as Alexander Graham Bell and a joking nickname for his phone in an NBC feature. His wife later bought Bell’s experimental instrument, costing a fortune at the time, and Ameche says he has willed it to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Goldwyn
Ameche
James Franciscus
Shirley Knight
Leslie Nielsen
Elveron
NBC TV
Alexander Graham Bell
Honore
Bell
Smithsonian Institute
Hollywood casting twists and stage dreams shimmer in 1960s
John Huston may exit The Madwoman of Chaillot forcing rewrites as stars Katherine Hepburn Simone Signoret and Margaret Leighton headlined by Danny Kaye Yul Brynner and Charles Boyer loom. Landau seeks peace talks in Ireland while Leif Erickson tours Vietnam. Ann-Margret eyes Rebus in Mar Del Plata with Laurence Harvey. Dorothy Lamour savors Hello Dolly in Santa Monica and San Bernardino, as Alan Alda trains for The Paper Lion and a W C Fields musical project gains momentum.
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Hollywood
John Huston
Chaillot
France
Ely Landau
Warner Brothers - Seven Arts
Allstar
Katherine Hepburn
Simone Signoret
Margaret Leighton
Danny Kaye
Yul Brynner
Charles Boyer
Huston
Ireland
Landau
Emerald Isle
Musical Takes Long Route to Broadway via London
New York AP report says Ted Danielewski has bought rights to Man with a Load of Mischief. The show will open in London's West End before a Broadway run and then a film version is planned.
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New York
Broadway
London
Ted Danielewski
West End
Burtons Clash Over Top Billing In Dr Faustus
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparred over who should get top billing for their new film Dr Faustus at a New York news conference. Taylor refused first billing while Burton demanded it, though Taylor’s Helen of Troy is a non speaking role, leaving Burton with the top spot.
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New York
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Miss Taylor
Richard
London
Christopher Marlowe
Burton
Germany Sings Kiss Me Kate Record Run in East Germany
The musical Kiss Me Kate has reached 2,206 performances in German cities, a run equivalent to five years on Broadway. Sam and Bella Spewack wrote the show with music by Cole Porter. In 1967 it became the first American musical produced in East Germany, where My Fair Lady and Hello Dolly followed.
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New York
Sam
Bella Spewack
Cole Porter
East Germany
Gable Special Filming Set in Cadiz Ohio
MGM documentary crew to spend three days shooting segments for the Clark Gable Special in Cadiz Ohio the late star's hometown.
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Hollywood
UPI
MGM
Clark Gable
Screen Star
Cadiz
Ohio
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