Stewart to reprise Harvey in Broadway company
Hollywood gossip notes Stewart set to replace Frank Fay in the Broadway run of Harvey after finishing The Rope in Hollywood. Fay will tour the East, while Joe E Brown supports a Midwest tour of the play. Jeffrey Lynn exits Lets Fall In Love after a brief shoot, and Lana Turner faces MGM suspension amid industry changes.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
My Stewart
Harvey
Maryase
Indiana
Penn
Frank Fay
New York
Fay
Joe E. Brown
Jeffrey Lynn
Dorothy Lamour
Lynn
Lana Turner
MGM
John Hodiak
Culver City
Humphrey Bogart
Jack Benny
Sime Silverman
Variety
Jane Russell
Howard Hughes
Bing Crosby
Jeam Arthur
Bill Williams
RKO
Mrs
Mike
Ben and
Nancy Freedman
Calgary
Canada
Dick Powell
June Allyson
Rita Hayworth
Carmen
Lucille Ball
Audrey Totter
Greer Garson
Julia
Walter Pidgeon
George Jessel
Canada to Restore Meat and Butter Price Controls
Ottawa government reimposes price controls on meat and butter and seeks to extend rent controls to March 31 1949. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced ceilings pegged to Montreal wholesale prices, with meat ceilings to follow in about two weeks and higher but moderate rises expected for beef lamb and veal.
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Robert Bunnelle
Ottawa
New York City
Douglas Abbott
Montreal
Abbott
Canada
Great Britain
State Employees to Observe 12 Holidays in 1948
Montgomery announces state offices will close Monday for the 141st anniversary of General Robert E. Lee's birthday. Personnel Director Charles W. Terry lists 11 other holidays for the year including Mardi Gras Washington's Birthday Jefferson's Birth Day Confederate Memorial Day and Armistice Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Montgomery
Robert E. Lee
Charles W. Terry
Terry
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
Curb on Visitors in U S Put Into Effect
Attorney General Clark approves drastic new controls to curb subversive activity by alien visitors to the United States. Effective about March 15 the ordinary one year visiting permit will be abolished and the visiting privilege limited to three months, with six months possible for single location stays. Extensions require justification and will shift supervision from Philadelphia to 16 district offices. Public comment period to follow in the Federal Register.
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Adams Washington
Clark
United States
Department
Federal Register
Philadelphia
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Abus
Tragic Village Springs Fire Claims Two Children
In Village Springs Alabama two young siblings, Johnny Monroe Allen aged 4 and Emma Louise Allen aged 2, perished in a fast spreading blaze that consumed their small frame house while their mother was briefly outside. Sheriff’s Deputy Clyde Coupland identified the victims and noted the mother could not reenter the home.
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Birmingham
Ala
Village Springs
Johnny Monroe Allen
Emma Louise Allen
Clyde Coupland
Coupland
Shanghai Mayor’s Salary Hike Reported
Mayor K. C. Wu will see his monthly salary rise to 9 095 000 Chinese currency this month. At black market rates this equals a little over 50 U S dollars per month.
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Shanghai
K. C. Wu
U. S
Blue Laws of New England Described in 1807 Travel Notes
A correspondent recounts Kendall's Travels In America In 1807 listing colonial blue laws. Prohibitions include fines for not supporting a minister, death for arson, harsh penalties for wearing fine fabrics, gambling bans, restricted worship, child custody by magistrates, spousal assault penalties, and stricter court marriage rules. The excerpt captures early New England governance and social controls.
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New England
Kendall
America
Christ's Church
Change of Times in Housing Shortage Highlights Social Quirks
Fragmented comic dialogue notes people sleeping in church on weekdays and Sundays, a maid’s nervous promise not to spill at dinner, a Decatur youth’s sly confession and rebuttal, and jokes about low effort values, a funny clock won at the county fair, and a spoof on a book titled How to Make Love for $1.
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Anna Herbert
Myrtle
Vernon
Hungarian Ban Bars Six Hollywood Stars
The Hungarian ministry of interior banned the films of six Hollywood stars for testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities last fall in Washington. The ban takes effect January 22 and names Robert Taylor Gary Cooper Adolphe Menjou Allan Jones George Murphy and Robert Montgomery. It marks the first open action against Hollywood productions since wartime Allied expulsions.
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Budapest
Hungary
Ministry of Interior
House Committee On unAmerican
Washington
Robert Taylor
Gary Cooper
Adolphe Menjou
Allan Jones
George Murphy
Robert Montgomery
Mobile Man Dies in Short Illness
Funeral services are planned for John Henry Mallory 54 father of Mrs Herbert Marshall of Beverly Hills California. Mallory died after a brief illness at Mobile where he worked as a marine engineer at a local shipyard. Mrs Marshall will travel from California for the funeral.
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Mobile
Ala
John Henry Mallory
Herbert Marshall
Beverly Hills
Calif
Mallory
Marshall
Boots Mallory
Dictator Talk and a New Cominform Plan
Mackenzies column notes brutal acts by Georgi Dimitrov in Bulgaria and warns that Moscow leads a renewed cominform scheme to cripple German industry and threaten the Marshall Plan. It links protocol M to mass strikes in Western Germany and a push toward a Soviet dictatorship.
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Bulgaria
Georgi
Dimitrov
Crac
National Assembly
Moscow
Balkans
Western
Europe
Germany
Bolshevist
Ruhr
Reich
Berlin
Cominform
Georgi Dimitrov
Comintern
Third International
Bolshevists
Daniels Rites On Saturday
Josephus Daniels 85 year old editor and publisher of The Raleigh News And Observer, last survivor of Woodrow Wilson cabinet, died yesterday. Funeral at 2 30 P M EST tomorrow at Edenton Street Methodist Church Raleigh bishops from Richmond will conduct services.
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Raleigh
N.C
Josephus “Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Woodrow ‘Wilson
Edeton Street Methodists
Daniels
W. W. Peele
Richmond, Va
Daniels’ Church
Will
Daniels buried in Oakwood Cemetery after passing
The text notes Daniels died from pneumonia evolving from chrome chitis and will be buried in Oakwood cemetery. Pallbearers are eight Black men connected with the Daniels household or The News And Observer. Daniels served as Secretary of the Navy in World War One and as Ambassador to Mexico under FDR, and was a confidant of Democratic presidents since Grover Cleveland.
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Daniels
Oakewood
The
News and Observer
Grover Cleveland
Navy
Mexico
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Premarital blood test law exempt for pre Jan 2 licenses
Alabama's new compulsory premarital blood test law does not apply to couples who obtained a marriage license before January 2, the act's effective date. Attorney General Albert A. Carmichael ruled in an advisory opinion to Huntsville Probate Judge Thomas W. Jones, saying the law covers license issuance, not the wedding ceremony.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Albert A. Carmichael
Thomas W. Jones
Huntsville
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