Kennedy Family Ties and Broadway Buzz Highlight Busy Week
Barbara Walters visits Mrs. Kennedy in Hyannis Port before a Today show taping. Notable items include a December 2 New York Stock Exchange party, Harvard Business School Club dinner plans, Rothschild dinner remark, and a string of showbiz moves from Huston to Sellers plus cultural notes from the Tehran festival and a Library of Congress project featuring James Michener.
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New York
Joseph P. Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Barbara Walters
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Harvard Business School Club
Robert Rauschenburg
Florida
Hubert Humphrey
McCall's
Joe Levine
Leland Hayward
Jerome Weidman
Lee Tracy Leaves $2 Million Estate To Wife
Actor Lee Tracy who died Oct 18 at 70 left more than 2 million dollars to his wife Helen in a will filed for probate in Los Angeles. The will specifies his entire estate including property cash stock and a home and apartment building with remainder to charities after her death. Tracy rose from vaudeville in 1919 to Broadway and Hollywood and was famed for policemen reporters and politicians roles including a reporter in The Front Page and an Oscar nomination for The Best Man.
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Los Angeles
Lee Tracy
Helen
Superior Court
Mike Casey
Tracy
New York
Broadway
Hollywood
Front
Still Room for Improvement Color Television Needs Consistency
Color TV is expanding in American homes but suffers inconsistent color reproduction across stations programs and even live taped or broadcast events. Preset color channels help but engineers must better align color balance within schedules and across cable systems to maintain a uniform viewing experience.
Barbra Streisand to Star in The Owl and the Pussycat
Barbra Streisand will play a straight dramatic role in The Owl and the Pussycat adapted from the Broadway play. Ray Stark says one or two songs will be used, singing incidental. Filming starts next September in New York.
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New York
Barbra Streisand
Bruce Jay Friedman
Ray Stark
Gene Hackman Builds Airplane in His Garage
Hollywood star Gene Hackman is constructing a Stolp Starduster aerobatic biplane in a hangar for his hobby. He plans Immelmanns, loops, barrel rolls, and Cuban eights, and says the project suits his aviation interests while filming The Gypsy Moths.
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Gene Hackman
Hollywood
UPI
Buck Barrow
Hackman
Wichita
Minnesota Theater Company Unveils 1969 Schedule at Two St. Paul Theaters
The Guthrie Theater Foundation approves six of seven planned works for the 1969 season at Crawford Livingston in St. Paul and Tyrone Guthrie in Minneapolis. Openings include The Alchemist and Ardele with a July to December run for 25 weeks across both venues. Performances run eight shows weekly with weekday evenings and midweek matinees.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Theater Company
Crawford Livingston Theater
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Tyrone Guthrie Theater
Guthrie Theater Foundation
Ben Jonson
Ardele
Jean Anouilh
William Shakespeare
Sean O'Casey
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov
Tyrone Guthrie
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