Baseball stars shine as cast in film about renewed hope
Agnes Moorehead guides a broken man, while Frank Morgan plays Barney Wile who returns to the big leagues via a loving son. Bill Williams portrays Eddie Didson with Monty’s sidekick, and many real baseball figures appear as themselves, including James Dyke, Bill Dickey, and Gene Bearden.
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Frank Morgan
Barney Wile
Agnes Moorehead
Ma Stratton
Bill Williams
Eddie Didson
Monty
James Dyke
Chicago White Sox
Hollywood Stars
Bill Dickey
New York Yankees
Gene Bearden
Cleveland Indians
Stratton Story Profiles Monty Stratton’s Courageous Rise
The Stratton Story on the Princess screens MGM’s take on Monty Stratton’s career with the Chicago White Sox. James Stewart stars as Stratton, with June Allyson as his wife Ethel, tracing his sandlot roots, pro rise, a hunting accident ending his career, and a wife driven comeback in a 1946 spotlight.
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June Allyson
James Stewart
Larry Douglas
Stratton
Monty Stratton
The
Princess Theatre
Princess Screen
MGM
Texas
Chicago White Sox
Sam Wood
Monty
Barney Wiles
White Sox
Ethel
Hedy Lamarr Stars In Dis honored Lady At Roxy
Hunt Stromberg presents a psychological drama at the Roxy featuring Hedy Lamarr as Madeleine Damien a magazine art editor seeking a new life. Dennis O Keefe John Loder and William Lundigan co star with Natalie Schafer Paul Cavanagh Morris Carnovsky in a New York set tale directed by Robert Stevenson with courtroom scenes shot under Harry Hunt.
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Roxy Theatre
Hunt Stromberg
Hedy Lamarr
Madeleine Damien
Smart
New York
Dennis O'Keefe
John Loder
United Artists
William Lundigan
Miss Lamarr
Natalie Schafer
Paul Cavanagh
Morris Carnovsky
Robert Stevenson
Greenwich Village
Central Park
LaGuardia Airport
New York Court of Appeals
Harry Hunt
California
Roxy
Midshipman Smith To Visit Cherbourg Aboard Missouri
Carol C. Smith, USNA, son of Mr and Mrs Carol C Smith of Decatur is to visit Cherbourg France August 15 aboard the battleship USS Missouri as part of the second midshipmen summer practice cruise. Over 1200 trainees aboard include midshipmen from the naval academy and ROTC units. Missouri will also stop at Guantanamo Bay Cuba for gunnery exercises and underway training before returning to the United States, as part of annual practice cruises that provide shipboard training and foreign visits.
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Carol C. Smith
USNA
Jackson Street
Decatur
Cherbourg
France
Naval Academy
Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps
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Missouri .Is
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Naval Academy Midshipmen
Collectives Pushed in Lithuania Farm Drive
The Soviet Lithuania report states 4,100 collective farms organized across the republic, uniting 130,308 peasant farms in a major step for agriculture reform.
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Moscod
Soviet Lithuania
Lithuania
Republic
Eee
Peck Bax ter Teamed in Sky
Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter star in Yellow Sky at the Roxy Theatre as seven desperadoes seek gold in a ghost town. Richard Widmark plays Dude, a gunman challenging Peck for leadership and the girl and treasure amid a tense climactic showdown.
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Gregory Peck
Anne Baxter
20Th Century-Fox
Richard ‘Widmark
Hollywood
Twentieth Century-Fox
Roxy Theatre
Widmark
Peck
Stretch
Miss Baxter
Mike
Robert Arthur
John Russell
Henry Morgan
James Barton
Charles Kemper
Thai railways see surge in passenger traffic after war
Passenger traffic on Thai railways has risen more than fourfold since before the war while goods shipments declined due to wartime rolling stock losses. The system expects additional rolling stock from Japan within the next 12 months to meet demand.
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Bankok
Japan
Would-Be Songwriters Told to Work for Tin Pan Alley Success
New York reports Levy president of Leedi sic Company says doors open only with hard work and a hit song. Most writers are second rate. 85,000 songs copyrighted yearly but only about 5,000 viewed by publishers, 2,000 played. Amateur should air at hometown stations and fund a recording rather than travel to New York. Levy, 38, built a publishing firm from $50 and one copyright. now controls about 17,000 copyrights.
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New York
Tin Pan Alley
Ou Lev
Leedi Sic Company
Andrews Sisters
Levy
Harmiateur
Akron
Lou
Piccolo Pete
Personal Column opens at Capitol Theatre in suspense thriller
Stromberg directs a psychological thriller featuring Lucille Ball and George Sanders. The plot follows a London ad column leading to disappearances and a Scotland Yard bait scheme as a killer mystery unfolds with a cast including Boris Karloff Cedric Hardwicke and Alan Mowbray.
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Hunt Stromberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Capitol Theatre
George Sanders
Lucille
Boris Karloff
Alan Mowbray
Joseph Calleia
George Zucco
George
Mr. Sanders
Singapore Menace Says City Has World High TB Rate
Dr G H Garlick of the Singapore Anti Tuberculosis Association Clinic declares the crown colony has the highest active TB rate of any city. He calls the city nearly saturated with the disease and estimates incidence at 16 percent with ages 12 to 18 most at risk.
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Singapore
Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association
G. H. Garlick
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