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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 17, 1952

Page

6

Wait Til The Sun Shines Nellie at Princess Theatre

Twentieth Century Fox drama Wait Til The Sun Shines Nellie opens at the Princess Theatre starring Jean Peters David Wayne and Hugh Marlowe. The Technicolor saga follows a midwestern barber life from WWI through prohibition to modern times with Nellie the ambitious girl at its center.

Nellie Princess America Twentieth Century-Fox Princess Theatre Jean Peters David Wayne Hugh Marlowe Big City Jean_Peters Hollywood Tommy Morton Helene Stanley

Ta Kung Pao Stray Staff Sent To Reindoctrination

A Chungking dispatch reports 90 percent of Ta Kung Pao staff sent to reform school for re indoctrination after straying from party line. The circulation manager was taken to Peoples Court while an office boy and two typesetters filled higher posts.

Hong Kong Communist Party Ta Kung Pao Chungking China Reform School Peoples Court

Weekend With Father at the Roxy stars Heflin and Neal

Van Heflin and Patricia Neal headline the comedy Week End With Father at the Roxy Theatre. Supporting cast includes Virginia Field, Richard Denning and Jimmy Hunt. The plot follows a widow and a widower with their blended family as they navigate romance amid a bustling brood.

Roxy van Heflin Patricia Neal Gigi Perreau Heflin Jimmy Hunt Virginia Field Richard Denning Father Roxy Theatre Miss Neal Janine Tommy Rettig Patricia

Driving instructor says slower learners make better drivers

In Vancouver a driving instructor claimed that less intelligent students learn mechanics of driving more easily. He argued that once the slower student grasps the basics they remember them, while the brainier ones cause more trouble.

Vancouver Canada

Abbott And Costello Star In Jack And The Beanstalk

Abbott and Costello star in a Warner Bros color comedy version of Jack and the Beanstalk opening Thursday at the Princess Theatre. The film features a baby sitter adventuring to Jack the Giant Killer with Buddy Baer as the Giant and Shaye Cogan and James Alexander as the love interests.

Bud Abbott Buddy Baer Lou Costello Princess Theatre Abbott and Costello Invisible Man The Foreign Legion Warner Bros Costello Jack Shaye Cogan James Alexander Dorothy Ford

Born Yesterday Stars Holliday And Holden At Ranch Drive-In

Columbia Pictures presents Born Yesterday a new comedy starring Judy Holliday William Holden and Broderick Crawford at the Ranch Theatre Monday and Tuesday The film drawn from a Broadway hit depicts Washington DC with Capitol scenes and bureaucratic delays noted by producer S Sylvan Simon

Judy Holiday William Holden Columbia Pictures Broderick Crawford Ranch Theatre Holliday and Holden Ranch Drive-In Bia Pictures Judy Holliday S. Sylvan Simon Capitol Rotunda Capitol Senate

Silver City at Princess Theatre Bright Technicolor Adventure

Paramounts Silver City a Technicolor adventure drama stars Edmond OBrien Yvonne De Carlo Barry Fitzgerald and Gladys George as a mining frontier tale set in a 1870s boom town. A troubled engineer becomes an assayer then a saver as deadly gangsters clash amid arson dynamiting and a sawmill chase in colorful Sierra landscapes.

Paramount Silver City Princess Theatre Edmond O’brien Yvonne de Carlo Barry Fitzgerald Gladys George Laura Elliot O’brien Miss de Carlo Fitzgerald Yvonne O'Brien High Sierras Frontier

Scrap iron pirates raid naval graveyards in Philippines

Senator Carlos P Garcia urges army probe into looting of World War II shipwrecks off Samar and Leyte. Pirates reportedly target eastern central islands, with 500 Japanese ships sunk nearby. Salvage potential estimated at 500000 to 700000 tons of hulls.

Manila Philippines Carlos P. Garcia Parti Samar Leyte Philippine

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