Hollywood News Highlights Bergen Buying The Great Gabbo
Edgar Bergen paid a sizable sum for The Great Gabbo and the Otto dummy. He plans to rewrite the tale for Charlie McCarthy lightening the heavy original. James Cruze directed the 1929 version with Eric von Stroheim and Betty Compson.
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Blue Barron Stage Show Opens at Paramount for Three Days
Blue Barron and his Music of Yesterday and Today orchestra lead a stage revue arriving at the Paramount for three days starting Friday. Featured artists include Clyde Burke Dick Mack Mert Curtis Tiny Wolfe Anthony Allyn and Hodge Chic Thomas. Screen attraction will be A Stranger in Town starring Frank Morgan Richard Carlson and Jean Rogers.
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Dick Mack
Mert Curtis
Tiny" Wolfe
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Hodge
Chic Thomas
Frank Morgan
Richard Carlson
Jean Rogers
Evening Movie Schedule Headlines at Local Theaters
Paramount shows Crash Dive at 1 3 15 5 30 7 45 10 with shorts at 2:45 5 7:15 9:30. Iowa screens Edge of Darkness 2:35 6:10 9:40 Cinderella Swings It 1:20 4:55 8:29. Palace offers Wings for the Eagle 1 4 7 10 plus Mrs Wiggs 2 40 5 40 8 40. Rialto presents Freckles Comes Home 1 3:47 6:30 9:23 Army Surgeon 2 3 4 50 7 39 10 26. Times lists Seven Days Leave 1 30 4 23 7 16 10 with Flying Fortress 3 5 8 51. Strand shows Too Many Girls 6 30 and H M Pulnam Esq 8. Marion features One Dangerous Night 2 4 50 7 40 10 35 White Cargo 3 22 6 12 9 07.
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Director of Panama Canal Project Dies
John F Stevens, age 90, the engineer who directed the Panama Canal construction, died at his Southern Pines home after a long illness. The report notes there were 25 players on early football teams.
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Panama Canal Project
Southern Pines
John F Stevens
Panama Canal
Broadway gossip and society chatter in Walter Winchell column
On Broadway with Walter Winchell surveys society figures from Mrs Roosevelt to Vera Zorina and Marianne O’Brien, noting visits, citizenship, and flirtations. It weaves in showbiz talk, rumors about film salaries, theater chatter, and midtown nightlife with brief asides on politics and crime.
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Eighty-sixth
Doctors Hospital
Henry Morgenthau
Tilly Losch
Russia
England
Avernlll Harriman
Mister Howe
Lord Beaverbrook
Joyce Mathews
Dorothy Thompson
Vermont
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Justice Murphy
Oklahoma
Gambling fines levied on six East Dubuque taverns
Licensees of six East Dubuque Jr. taverns were fined 500 dollars and costs each on charges of operating common gambling houses. The AP report notes the New Jersey legislature abolished slavery in 1804.
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Respected Citizen Is Escaped Lifer Fingerprints Reveal Identity
In Los Angeles a routine fingerprint check disclosed that J. J. Taylor, 55, longtime resident, is actually Charles A Proctor, an Indiana life prisoner who escaped during a life sentence for murder in 1914. Proctor, arrested May 15 for drunk driving, claimed his stepmother’s prejudice caused the conviction. He denied murder charges as custody took him.
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Los Angeles
J. J. Taylor
Charles A Proctor
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Police Lieutenant Describes Extradition as Dirtiest Job
Police Lieutenant E J Parker said he would not resist extradition and called the task the dirtiest job he ever had to do as he helped lock up Proctor.
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E. J. Parker
Proctor
Edsel Ford Will May Cut Estate Taxes to Ford Foundation
The will of Edsel Bryant Ford filed for probate indicates most Ford Motor stock goes to the Ford Foundation reducing potential inheritance and transfer taxes to perhaps 12 million dollars. The estate may total about 200 million with stock remaining split among widow Elea nor Clay Ford and the four Ford children. The Ford Foundation, organized in 1936 for educational purposes, receives the non taxed portion. The widow serves as executrix. Ford Motor stock details show capitalization of 100 million with 20 million shares, only 3,452,900 outstanding as of Sept 1, 1942.
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Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Foundation
Ford
Eleanor Clay Ford
Henry Ford
Benson Ford
Walter Buhl Ford
William Clay Ford
Ford Heirship Split Details Reveal Family Shares
Henry Ford holds 55 percent of class A stock Edsel 41 percent and Mrs Henry Ford 314 percent in class B stock Edsel controls a majority of Manufacturers National Bank Detroit. The will leaves the widow the stock estate and personal effects while real estate in Michigan goes to the foundation. A Seal Harbor mansion and Florida residence go to Mrs Edsel Ford with others left to the foundation.
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Edsel
Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit
Grosse Pointe Shores
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Foundation
Seal Harbor
White Hart Inn
New Hampshire
Florida
Edsel Ford
Boy Flees Dentist After Drill Threat
Eleven year old Jerry Wharton ran from a dentist and vanished after his mother could not stop the escape. Police continued the search as of the latest reports.
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Jerry Wharton
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