Shearing Beats Odds to Rank Among Top Jazz Pianists
George Shearing, blind since infancy, has risen to become one of America's top six jazz pianists at age 29. He performs in New York clubs, plays Chopin and Debussy for jazz fans, and prefers a varied program. He lives on Staten Island with his wife and daughter Wendy Ann, and plans a West Coast visit to explore new scenes.
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Hollywood Sees Indians Have Day On Screen
Aline Mosby reports Hollywood shifts from savage stereotypes to heroic Indian roles. Indian Actors Association wins gains as screenwriters feature Indians as normal westerners with several films highlighting indigenous leads and positive portrayals.
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Liollywood
Hollywood
Barbara Stanwyck Tests With Lyle Bettger For The Lie
Barbara Stanwyck abandons a decade old rule by testing opposite Lyle Bettger in The Lie. Bettger lands the contract and the two are teamed for the project.
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Lyle Bettger
Lunt Fontanne and Coward Plan Dual Farewell Broadway Piccadilly
Veteran trio Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne and Noel Coward discuss retirement and outline a unique farewell plan They will coauthor a new play to be staged once with all three in a single performance They propose two finales one on Broadway and one in London to mark their joint exit from the stage.
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York
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London
Broadway
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Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Revelers to Open Cedar Rapids Concert Season Sept 28
The Cedar Rapids Community Concert Association plans the first program of the 1949 50 season on Wednesday September 28 at the Paramount theater. The Revelers male quartet features Wilfred Glenn Harold Brown Delbert Anderson Rand Smith and Paul Vellucci with Richard Curzon slated for January 16 Juilliard String Quartet and the Wagner Opera Company to follow. Adult memberships are available along with student and nurse rates through schools. Prof Paul S. Ray presides.
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Paul Vellucci
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Juilliard String
Wagner Opera Company
Paul S. Ray
Teresa Wright Breaks With Goldwyn Over Personal Appearances
Hollywood reports Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn ended their feud over personal appearances for the latest picture. Wright, after a Christmas tour order and two days notice, now stars in Daybreak and will fulfill all required appearances. Her husband Niven Busch produces.
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Teresa
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Ball’s Early Career Soda Jerk in Times Square Drugstore
Lucille Ball once worked as a soda jerker at a New York drugstore in Times Square, an early job before her rise to fame. The anecdote highlights her humble beginnings and ties to Manhattan landmarks.
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Lucille Ball
New York Times Square
Movie Contract Gave Him Time To Finish His Book
New York writer Lampell says Hollywood contracts gave time to finish his novel The Hero. He sold rights to Columbia Pictures for a large sum and will advise on the football story while returning to New York to work on another book. Lampell criticizes script writing as secondary to his own novel.
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Hollywood
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Columbia Pictures
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Paterson, N.J
University of West Virginia
New Hollywood Director Does Himself Very Proud
-Hollywood AP profiles Nicholas Ray as a rising film director whose first effort They Live by Night stalled in the U.S. but impressed in England. His follow ups A Woman's Secret and Knock on Any Door did well stateside, leading to Bed of Roses and a Bogart project In a Lonely Place. Ray stresses stripping a story to action and characterization to avoid clutter.
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Joan Leslie
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Welles
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