Athena emerges as new color musical with Broadway stars
M G M reproduces its Broadway casting approach in the color musical Athena starring Jane Powell Edmund Purdom Debbie Reynolds Vic Damone and Louis Calhern. The film tells of seven sisters led by the eldest with a light hearted plot and musical numbers.
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Edmund Purdom
Debbie Reynolds
Vic Damone
Louis Calhern
Jane
Sunset Theatre
Linda Christian
Three Young Texans Opens at Roxy With New Western Trio
The Technicolor western Three Young Texans by Pano ramic Productions debuts at the Roxy Theatre on Thursday. Director Henry Levin notes the cast—Mitzi Gaynor Keefe Brasselle and Jeff Hunter—are new to westerns and learn riding shooting and roping from scratch while the heroine becomes a believable modern character.
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Cast List for Athena Screen at Sunset
The Misses Powell and Reynolds headline a cast of six performers in the film Athena with Virginia Gibson Nancy Kilgas Jane Fisher Dolores Starr and Cecile Rogers in the song and dance numbers. The movie is showing at the Sunset theater.
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Powell
Reynolds
Virginia Gibson
Nancy Kilgas
Jane Fischer
Dolores Starr
Cecile Rogers
Athena
Outdoor Girl in Levis Leads Western Romance Film
The writer describes a film approach that places youth in the saddle and romance in the script. The hero embraces the girl at the finale to shock traditional western norms. Location filming occurred in Colorado and New Mexico with authentic outdoor settings and western types.
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Levin
Colorado
New Mexico
Wright brothers first flight shorter than modern wingspan
The first Wright brothers flight covered 120 feet, a distance far less than the wingspan of contemporary airplanes.
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Wright Brothers
Hell Below Zero at Princess Theatre
Alan Ladd stars in a Technicolor action tale about a whale catch ship crushed in Antarctic ice. The film played at the Princess Theatre Thursday and Friday, with real life parallels noted as co producer Albert R. Broccoli returned from location shoots.
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Technicolor
Princess Theatre
Alan Ladd
Stanley Baker
Albert R. Broccoli
Sea Chase opens at Princess with John Wayne Lana Turner
John Wayne and Lana Turner headline Warner Bros. The Sea Chase opening at the Princess Theatre. The adventure drama follows an outlaw tramp ship from Sydney to Valparaiso amid a deadly ocean pursuit, mutiny and storms with David Farrar Lyle Bettger and Tab Hunter co starring.
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John Wayne
Lana Turner
Princess Theatre
WarnerColor
David Farrar
Lyle Bettger
Tab Hunter
High Seas
Wayne
Miss Turner
Danny
Pirates of Tripoli Stars Paul Henreid at the Roxy
Paul Henreid discusses acting while promoting Columbia Pictures swashbuckler Pirates of Tripoli with Patricia Medina. He compares actors judging their own work to retelling a joke and to a mother judging her child, noting both pride and disappointment.
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Patricia Medina
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Tripoli
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Whaler Settsu Maru Lost in Antarctic Ice Jam
Dispatch reports the Japanese whaler Settsu Maru abandoned after becoming jammed in Antarctic ice. Four thousand tons of whale meat remained on board as all crew were rescued. The story features Joan Tetzel Basil Sydney and Stanley Baker in support of Ladd in Hell Below Zero.
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Antarctic
Ladd
Joan Tetzel
Basil Sydney
Stanley Baker
Highways With Federal Aid Carry Most Traffic
About 18 percent of U S highways receive federal aid yet they handle 42 percent of the traffic, highlighting the concentration of use on funded routes. This reflects policy implications for infrastructure planning and funding distribution.
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U. S
Navy lends X Boats for Crest of the Wave film
Royal Navy loaned two midget submarines known as X-Boats to MGM for Crest of the Wave starring Gene Kelly. The subs famed for sinking Tirpitz in WWII operate with limpet mines and play key roles in the drama shot in England and off the French Channel Islands.
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Gene Kelly
Fredd Wayne
John Justin
Jeff Richards
England
Channel Islands
M-G-M
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Great Britain
Princess Wednesday
France
Germany
Fiords
John and
Roy Boulting
National Education Association reports driver training in high schools
The National Education Association states that driving automobile training is provided in 10,000 American high schools. This highlights widespread driver education and its integration into secondary schooling nationwide.
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National Education Assn
Cancer deaths in the United States rise on average
The article notes a cancer death occurs roughly every two minutes in the United States. It also reports on the fire ant invasion from Brazil threatening stored foods, crops, and farm animals in the southern United States.
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