Heston Living Large in Rome Between Ben Hur Shoots
Charlton Heston talks from Rome about his lavish life there while filming Ben Hur. He describes Beverly Hills style in an apartment near the Appian Way, a Rome home with catacomb access, and staff including maids chefs and gardeners. He recalls Hell’s Kitchen days in Michigan and Manhattan and notes his Los Angeles forest purchase and Tudor City flat.
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Rome
Chariton Heston
St. Helen
Mich
Hell's Kitchen
N.Y
Beverly Hills
Weller
Michigan
M-G-M
Moses
Heston
Coldwater Canyon
Los Angeles
Tudor City
Old Homestead
Detroit
Yugoslavia
Ramon Navarro
Esther
Haya Harareet
Haifa
May McAvoy
Gen
Lew Wallace
Crawfordsville
Ind
Local residents visit and church events noted in Lawrence County
Reverend Austin Self filled his appointments at the Baptist Church Sunday. Friends of Gwen Montgomery learned he was seriously burned Friday morning and is hospitalized at Lawrence County Hospital. Numerous local families, including Filyaw, Vess, Montgomery, Horton, Copeland, and Strickland kin, visited relatives, attended church, or spent weekends with one another across Lawrence County and nearby towns.
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Austin Self
Baptist Church
Gwen Montgomery
Lawrence County Hospital
Rube Wess
Nan
Brenda Ellingbury
Bessemer
Leonard Horton
Baby
L. M. Filyaw
Johnnie
Beanie Letson
Moulton
Hoyt
Roy Filyaw
Dewey Bradford
Birmingham
Rube Vess
E. G. Hitt
Jim
D. J. Filyaw
Nerva Terry
Ida Heflin
Lyndon Montgomery
Hartselle
J. Dee Montgomery
Kenneth Copeland
Clark Buttram
Herschel Copeland
Hoyt and
Lama
Hatton
W. C. Lanier
Debbie
Myrtie Odell and Family
Huntsville
Bob Strickland
Manor Filyan and Coy
Gwth Montgomery
Father Watches as Son Falls to Death at Plant
Mobile report says 25 year old William E. Hartley, Alabama Power Co. employee, plunged 130 feet from a boiler house unit at the Barry Steam Plant north of Mobile while installing iron gratings. A superintendent said he apparently lost his balance as he worked with his son.
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Mobile (Ap
William E. Hartley
Alabama Power Co
Barry
Mobile
W. H. Hartley
Midnight Earl and Ingersoll Train Encounter Laughs
An all night dispute on a Chicago to Indianapolis train pits Heston and Robert Ingersoll against each other with bold quips about timing and the infamous infidel. The dialogue promises fast completion after seven years as expectations rise amid comic reflections on tax returns and business woes.
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Robert Ingersoll
Chicago
Indianapolis
Heston
Midnight Earl
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Far From
Hell’s Kitchen
Wilson
Charlton Heston
Lawrence County Chalybeate
Cancellation Shoe Store
Moulton Street
Dobson
Bradley
Chiffon Voile
Adam Straws
Second Avenue
Xavier Cugat
Spain
Vincent Price
Tony Randall
Bert Lahr
Harry Belafonte
Ed Sullivan
Tom Poston
Steve Allen
George Abbott
Moiseyev
Everett Sloan
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Kem Dibbs
Lana Turner
Frances Farmer
Taina Elg
Denise Darcel
Lena Horne
Gale “Jones
Charles Cochrane
Rafael Trujillo, Jr
Gloria Swanson
Zurich
Lex
Tarzan) Barker
Adrienne Corri
London
Friends
Earl
Tanna Elg
Jack Herbert
the Hall Syndicate
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