Color Video Controversy Heads to Public Verdict
The CBS color system faces a jury of public opinion as RCA and manufacturers push demonstrations to win favor. Compatibility remains central with CBS incompatible with most existing sets, while RCA promises color and black and white reception on current sets.
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Wayne Oliver
EW York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Federal Communications Commission
Supreme Court
Radio Corporation of America
CBS
RCA
FCC
CBS Color
Eagles Civic Players stage comedy The Actors Have Come
The Eagles Civic Players present The Actors Have Come a James Reach comedy on Monday and Tuesday in the Eagles auditorium with 8 p.m. curtain. Proceeds benefit the servicemen's fund. Principal roles include Verle Gnagy Peg Baird Marjory Adams Ted Rahe and Charles Wolfe. Max Hahn directs. Tickets at May's or at the door. No reserved seats.
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Eagles Civic Players
James Reach
Eagles
Eagles Servicemen’s Fund
Verle Gnagy
Peg Baird
Marjory Adams
Ted Rahe
Charles Wolfe
Max Hahn
May’s
Coe Man Plans Graduate Work At Stratford
Coe college senior Samuel F. Lewis of Scottdale Pennsylvania will study Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama in a six week graduate course at Stratford upon Avon England starting mid June. The program is run with the University of Birmingham and the Shakespeare birthplace venue. Lewis is editor of the Caravan and former Writers club president. He earned the Hromek prize in 1949 and had his murder comedy Blue Doom staged in 1950. He aims for an M A and teaching English in college or university.
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Lewis
Stratford on-Avon
England
United States
University of Birmingham
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Memorial Theater
Stratford
Jeannette Ringland
Vernon Lichtenstein
Coe
Caravan
Writers Club
Hromek
Little Dusty and the Hi of Finders Keepers
Hollywood reports that a two and a half year old prodigy named Little Dusty, signed for the film Finders Keepers, demonstrated a six year old vocabulary in tests but the movie limits him to the word Hi. The studio plans to let him shout Hi ya at film end after his mother protested.
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Hollywood
Dusty
Movie Academy Receives Mack Sennett Photo Collection
Hollywood AP Mack Sennett has donated 70000 still photographs spanning forty years of film history to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The collection documents the comedy phase of Hollywood cinema and is described as the academy’s most elaborate gift.
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Hollywood
Mack Sennett
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Sennett
The
Academy
Boy Clings to Tree Rescue Ends with Crowbars
Eleven year old Joseph P Ward Jr became stuck in a tree while playing Tarzan. Neighbors and police failed to free him until firefighters arrived with crowbars and oil to loosen the limb and bring him down.
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Boston
Joseph P. Ward, Jr
Mass for Pope Marcellus shines in Capitol release
Joseph H. Kitchin lauds Capitol's Mass for Pope Marcellus by Palestrina as performed by the Robert Wagner Chorale of Los Angeles praising pitch accuracy balance and authentic style. He also reviews MacDowell Barber and historic jazz reissues highlighting performers John Kirkpatrick Helen Traubel Jimmy Durante Ralph Sutton and Bunk Johnson among others.
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Joseph H. Kitchin
Capitol
Pope Marcellus
Robert Wagner Chorale of
Los Angeles
Palestrina
Council of Trent
Wagner Chorale
Ralph Sutton
Firehouse Five
Hlang
Bing Crosby
New Orleans
Bunk Johnson
Lu Watters
Bunk
Popular By Les Zachers N Instrumental Side
Popular by Les Zachers features an instrumental side that excites us considerably with vibrant melodies and bold arrangements. The piece showcases energetic rhythm and strong instrumental phrasing that captures a lively vintage vibe.
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Les Zachers
Mills Brothers Circus Brings Cedar Rapids Show June 11
The Mills Brothers three ring motorized circus visits Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids on June 11 with two performances at 2 and 8 pm. The firemen organize the event to raise funds for the firemen insurance benefit, hosting with local groups and carrying its own minister Doc Waddell, an 87 year old veteran. Tickets are sold by firemen or at fire stations, with advance sales higher than circus day.
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Mills Brothers
Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye Downs
Doc Waddell
Stage Actor Sets Record on Broadway Milestone
New York actor Tom Hofer, age 73, marks a historic Broadway achievement by completing a thousandth consecutive performance in Kiss Me Kate. He becomes the first in American theater to reach such a streak with no breaks, surpassing earlier solo record runs across the stage.
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New York
Tom Hofer
Council of the Living Theater
Kiss Me
Kate
Frank Bacon
Howard Lindsay
Father
Frank Fay
Harvey
James Barton
Tobacco Road
Comic Jesse White Invited 100th Time to Speak at Goat Breeders
Hollywood comedian Jesse White accepts his hundredth invitation to address the National Association of Goat Breeders. He first spoke years ago in Indianapolis after a road show when an inebriated grower urged him to pose as a government agricultural expert and extoll turnips. White, famed for ad libbing humor, remains in demand despite a busy screen schedule.
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Ollywood
Jesse White
White
National Association of Goat Breeders
Indianapolis
Indiana Turnip Growers Association
Universal-International
Harvey
Mario Lanza: The Young Tenor Sweeping Show Business
The article profiles Mario Lanza, a rising tenor whose Be My Love tops charts and who headlines concert tours and a Great Caruso film run. It traces his New York birth on January 31 1921 his Philadelphia Little Italy upbringing military service in Winged Victory and eventual Hollywood success with That Midnight Kiss The Toast of New Orleans and The Great Caruso. He plans a season at La Scala Milan and a future at the Met. He lives in Beverly Hills with wife Betty Hicks and two daughters Colleen and Elissa.
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Ollywood
Mario Lanza
Lanza
Alfred Arnold Cocozza
New York City
Maria Lanza
Papa Cocozza
Mario
Philadelphia
Little
Italy
Southern High School
Academy of Music
William K. Huff
Philadelphia Forum
Koussevitzky
Army Air Force
New York
Sam Weiler
Louis B. Mayer
Kathryn Grayson
Ethel Barrymore
Hollywood
Miss Grayson
Weiler
la Scala
Milan
The
Met
Beverly Hills
Betty Hicks
Colleen
Elissa
Armar to Host Bishop's Band and Teddy Phillips Tonight
Billy Bishop and his Sweet Music will be presented at Armar next Sunday night. Bishop formed his orchestra in Canada and scored there and in Europe before coming to the United States. He has played at the Chicago Blackhawk Aragon Trianon and the Baker in Dallas. Singer Alice Mann appears. Tonight at Armar Teddy Phillips and his crew perform.
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Billy Bishop
Armar
Bishop
Canada
Europe
United States
Chicago Blackhawk
Aragon and
Trianon
Baker Hotel
Dallas
Alice Mann
Teddy Phillips
Five dachshunds watch TV in Syracuse home
In Syracuse NY five dachshunds Gretchen Gretel Gammidinger Hildegard and Hansel sit captivated by television. Their owner Mrs Joseph Delmonico says the pets stay attentive and quiet during programs marking a unique local pastime.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Gretchen
Gretel
Gammidinger
Hildegard
Hansel
Joseph Delmonico
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