Broadway Buzz of 1960s Figures and World News Highlights
Mrs. Joseph Kennedy hosts Barbara Walters in Hyannis Port after a late call from Jackie Onassis. News bits include Harvard Club NYC food baskets for stock party, Rauschenburg island home, Rothschild at Weizmann dinner, McCarthy to introduce Seferis, Huston in The Kremlin Letter, Katchaturian Tehran festival requests, and a Milton Berle onstage death gag in Forty Carats rehearsal.
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New York
Joseph P. Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Barbara Walters
Lee Tracy Leaves $2 Million Estate to Wife
Actor Lee Tracy who died Oct 18 at 70 left more than 2 million to his wife Helen in a will filed for probate in superior court. The estate includes property a home apartment house cash and stock with remainder to charities after her death. Tracy rose from vaudeville to Broadway and Hollywood famed for playing policemen reporters and politicians including a Front Page reporter and a Best Man Oscar nomination.
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Los Angeles
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New York
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Front
Still Room for Improvement Color Television Needs Consistency
Color TV is expanding, with one third of homes expected to own sets by year end. Yet color reproduction varies by station and program, despite presets, calling for engineers to standardize balance across schedules and improve consistency for both broadcast and cable systems.
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New York
Max
Barbra Streisand To Star In The Owl And The Pussycat
Barbra Streisand will switch from comedy to straight drama in The Owl and the Pussycat to be adapted by Bruce Jay Friedman from the Broadway play. Ray Stark, the producer, says one or two songs may be included, with singing incidental. Filming starts next September in New York.
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New York
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Hackman Builds Own Airplane in Hollywood Garage
Actor Gene Hackman, known for Bonnie and Clyde and The Gypsy Moths, is assembling a Stolp Starduster biplane in a hangar. He plans aerobatics including Immelmanns and Cuban eights, using plans and a wing kit, despite not owning a wrecked plane. He notes his wife will not fly with him, but he sometimes takes his children up.
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Minnesota Theater Company Adds New 1969 Schedule
The Guthrie Theater Foundation approves six of seven planned plays for the 1969 season at Crawford Livingston and Tyrone Guthrie theaters. Openings include The Alchemist and Ardele in mid April at St Paul, with Minneapolis starts in late June. The lineup features Troilus and Cressida Cockle Doodle Dandy Uncle Vanya plus a still undisclosed American work and another yet to be chosen. The Guthrie Series runs 25 weeks, about 200 performances, with eight performances weekly across both venues and consistent weekday matinee slots.
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