John Wayne film and early French émigrants in Alabama
The piece previews The Fighting Kentuckian with John Wayne and Vera Ralston opening at the Roxy Theatre. It recounts Napoleonic exiles who settled four Alabama townships in 1817, founding White Bluff later renamed Demoen City of the Pepp a, and their failed olive and grape cultivation amid frontier life.
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Broken Arrow Bridges Indian White Relations On Screen
The film Broken Arrow, opening at the Princess, portrays a landmark Apache white relations story. James Stewart plays Tom Jeffords, Debra Paget is an Indian woman, and Jeff Chandler stars as Cochise in a Technicolor epic set in 1870 Arizona. Director Delmer Daves shot on Arizona locations near Sedona with Apache and loyal residents, assembling a large production to depict a friendship that spurred reforms.
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Debra Paget
Jeff Chandler
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Julian Blaustein
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Will Geer
Joyce MacKenzie
Arthur Hunnicutt
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town Opens At Princess Theatre
Universal-International continues the Kettle series with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride in Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town. Main wears lavish gowns while Kilbride sees glamour for the first time in her career. Filming took place in New York and Los Angeles with Meg Randall and Richard Long as newlyweds from the prior film. Charles Lamont directed for producer Leonard Goldstein.
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Percy Kilbride
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Rosemary Odell
Marjorie
Miss Main
Kettles
Los Angeles
Meg Randall
Richard Long
Leonard Goldstein
Sun Town Brings Seven Stars In Oil Frontier Drama
Realart releases Sun Town in Capitol theatre as a rugged oil frontier melodrama. Constance Bennett and Brad Crawford headline a clever confidence pair with Patric Knowles and Anne Gwynne as a romantic duo amid boom town clashes and geological ventures.
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Sin Town
Patric Knowles
Anne Gwynne
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Constance Bennett
Brad Crawford
Last Frontier
Cimarron
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Capitol Theatre
Beads On Wedding Dress In Chicago Ceremony
Kath leen Rouleau wore a wedding gown in Chicago adorned with twenty four thousand five hundred beads. Her mother Mrs. Kathryn Rouleau applied the beads, a task that took ninety six hours to complete.
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Chicago
Kathleen*Rouleau
Vernon Wadsley
Kathryn Rouleau
Gold Discovered Across Fourteen of New Mexico's Counties
A report indicates gold has been found in fourteen of New Mexico's thirty two counties. The announcement highlights mineral exploration activity and potential impact on local economies.
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New Mexico
Wrestling Film Bodyhold Reveals Racket Drama at Capitol
In Columbia the film Bodyhold exposes the wrestling racket with Willard Parker Lola Albright Hillary Brooke and Allen Jenkins in top roles. A behind the scenes drama shows how a champ is groomed and how the three ring circus operates. Parker battles to regain the title under promoter Roy Roberts and wins Miss Albright after foiling a double cross. Ed Lewis and other boxing figures appear in supporting roles.
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Willard Parker
Lola Albright
Hillary Brooke
Allen Jenkins
Parker
Miss Brake
Roy Roberts
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Miss Albright
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National Geographic cites Japanese height averages
The National Geographic Society reports Japanese men average five feet three inches and women four inches shorter, noting gender height difference in the population.
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