Runyon Story Is Told Again At The Roxy
Damon Runyon stories inspire cinema. Bob Hope stars in Sorrowful Jones with Lucille Ball at the Roxy Theatre next Thursday. Ball, Demarest, Cabot, Gomez, and Mary Jane Saunders support a tale of a penny-pinching bookie who bonds with a young girl, bringing humor and heart.
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Bob Hope
Mary Jane Saunders
Lucille Ball
William Demarest
Roxy
Broadway
Damon Runyon
Runyon
Bruce Cabot
Thomas Gomez
Bob
Pay raises slow in Chicago city payrolls study says
The International City Managers Association and the Civil Service Assembly studied 100 cities and found fewer gave pay raises in the first half of 1949 than in 1947 or 1948. Forty percent raised during early 1949 versus 47 percent in 1947 and 61 percent in 1948.
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Chicago
International City Managers Association
The
Civil Service Assembly
Ichabod and Mr. Toad Cartoon Feature Heads to Princess
Disney unveils a full cartoon Technicolor feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad opening Sunday at the Princess. The film blends Bing Crosby singing with animation and includes new Disney characters and a Basil Rathbone narration, featuring Ichabod Crane Katrina van Tassel Bram Bones and Mr. Toad in a Sleepy Hollow and Wind in the Willows crossover.
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Alt Disney
Bing Crosby
Ichabod
Mr. Toad
RKO Radio Pictures
Technicolor
Ichabod Crane
J. Thaddeus Toad
Washington Irving
Sleepy Hollow
Riverside
Kenneth Grahame
Willows
Katrina van Tassel
Bram Bones
Basil Rathbone
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Wily Weasels Stole Red Auto in Sleepy Hollow Tale
The fugitive Weasels steal a red automobile aided by Batman Winky and trade it to spendthrift Mr. Toad. Madcap Cyril appears. Ichabod song is joined by two Bing Crosby numbers Kat rina and The Headless Horseman, within the Sleepy Hollow narrative.
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Bing Crosby
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Horseman
Sand Opens Here Soon With Stevens
Twentieth Century Fox outdoor drama Sand opens Thursday at the Princess Theatre. Mark Stevens stars with Coleen Gray and Rory Calhoun in a Durango film set in the Rocky Mountains. Produced and shot on location with Robert Bassler Louis King and Charles Clarke guiding the production the film marks Stevens first western role and a Technicolor showcase in the San Juan country.
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Mark Stevens
Twentieth Century-Fox
Princess Theatre
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Louis King
Robert Bassler
Will James
Sand
Rory Calhoun
America
Alps
Durango
Thunderhead
Flicka
Charles Clarke
San Juan
Everybody Does It Sings Opera at Princess Theatre
A lively comedy about Paul Douglas and Linda Darnell with Celeste Holm in a high spirited stage act. Douglas hides a powerful operatic voice that disrupts a home life and leads to a tour with Darnell before a flawed stage debut and a joyful reconciliation.
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Princess Theatre
Paul Douglas
Linda Darnell
Celeste Holm
Edmund Goulding
Nunnally Johnson
Douglas
Millard Mitchell
Charles Coburn
Linda
Celeste
Darnell
Fatima
Tarzan’s Magic Fountain at the Roxy opens Tuesday
Lex Barker stars as Tarzan alongside Brenda Joyce in Tarzan’s Magic Fountain. Adventure and peril unfold in the African jungle as a group of crooked traders seek magical rejuvenation water. Tarzan battles danger to rescue Jane amid natives and flaming arrows.
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Tarzan
Roxy
Lex Barker
Brenda Joyce
England
Jane
Stallion Jubilee Leads Western Film Sand Cast
Director King and staff traveled to Colorado for Sand with Jubilee, a mahogany stallion picked from hundreds for the key role. Stars Charley Grapewin and Bob Patten appear, with screenplay by Martin Berkeley and Jerome Cady.
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King
Colorado
Jubilee
Charley Grapewin
Bob Patten
Martin Berkeley
Jerome Cady
Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission to Meet in Tampa
In Montgomery on December 24 1920s era note Bert Thomas Alabama Conservation Director says the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold its first quarterly meeting in Tampa Florida on January 19 and 20 Delegates from five states will discuss exploratory and biological work to be conducted in Gulf waters by two 100 foot boats provided by the U S Fish and Wildlife Service to work with the commission
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Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission
Tampa
Fla
Alabama
Bert Thomas
Gulf Waters
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Commission
Art by Accident in Los Angeles Rock Image
A dolomite rock slab owned by Miss Helen Barnhart, three inches thick and about the size of a handkerchief, shows a natural formation that observers interpret as a Christ like face, a cross with seven steps, an angel above the cross, an avenging angel, and the grief stricken Mary beside the cross.
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Los Angeles
Helen Barnhart
Christ
Mary
Iynx Snowshoe Feet Named For Winter Adaptation
In winter the Iynx grows tufts of hair on its feet that act as snow shoes. This natural adaptation helps the bird traverse snowy ground, maintaining balance and mobility when other traits are less effective. The feature highlights the species' resilience in cold seasons.
Rock found by mother in 1910 near Essington Springs South Dakota
Miss Barnhart recalls a stone found on a farm near Essington Springs in 1910. It was shown at the capitol in Pierre for a year before she moved it to a new location five years ago.
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Miss Barnhart
Essington Springs
S. D
Pierre
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