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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1951

Page

6

Call Me Mister at Princess Theatre With Betty Grable Dan Dailey

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey star in the Technicolor Call Me Mister at the Princess Theatre today and Monday. The musical comedy adaptation adds fresh material while retaining hit numbers and sketches from the Broadway version set against an American occupation backdrop in Japan. Danny Thomas adds spotlight as a leading comedian in this bright production.

Me Mister Princess Theatre Betty Grable Dan Dailey Mister Twentieth Century-Fox Japan Princess Dan’ Dailey Betty la Grable Mr. Dailey Dave Willock Jerry Paris Danny Thomas Benny Venuta Comedienne Dale Robertson Jeffrey

Wrestling course pays off in Santa Ana chase

James A. Key, 46, used a move learned in a local gym to pin an hit-and-run driver at the next intersection. Police arrived while Key held the other man in a Boston crab.

Santa Ana Calif James A. Key Key

Peiping Airport Proximity Highlights Korea Access

The principal airport at Peiping sits nearer to the Korean theater than Tokyo, suggesting swifter reach for air travelers and military movements. This proximity underscores potential strategic advantages for operations and logistics in the region.

Peiping Korea Tokyo

Crisis drama at Princess stars Cary Grant in tense medical choice

A suspenseful MGM drama follows Dr. Eugene Ferguson played by Cary Grant who operates on a tyrant ruler Raudl Farrago in a latently revolutionary country. Ferguson must decide whether to let Farrago die or save his life risking his wife’s safety as rebels close in and the dictator’s fate hinges on the operation.

Cary Grant Jose Ferrer Paula Raymond MGM Eugene Ferguson Raudl Farrago Farrago Ferguson Gonzales Princess Players Princess Theatre

Mutiny on the Blackhawk sails to Capitol Theatre today

Realart presents Mutiny on the Blackhawk at the Capitol. Richard Arlen stars as a secret service agent tracking slave running between Hawaii and California in 1840. Noah Beery is the brutal captain with Noah Beery also delivering grim realism, with Comedic turns by Andy Devine and a cast including Mama Clark Princess Luana Mala and Guinn Williams.

Realart Capitol Theatre California Union Richard Arlen Secret Service Hawaii Noah Beery Andy Devine Mabel Albertson Mama Clark Princess Luana Mala the Eskimo Islands Guinn Big Boy Williams

Complex family ties surround Allan Wightman wedding

Sydney report details a knotty relation chart after Allan Charles Wightman wed Vivian Munro. Wightman becomes his stepmother's son, his sister-in-law, and uncle to her two children. Bridesmaids Doreen Connors and Margaret Wightman shift roles as stepsister and aunt, producing a tangle of in laws and relatives.

Sydney Allan Charles Wightman Wightman Vivian Munro Allan Wightman Allan Doreen Connors Mrs. Wightman Margaret Wightman Doreen Vivian Margaret

Investors Diversified says productive life can begin at 40

Grady Clark of Investors Diversified Services argues that 40 plus sales reps produced about 64 percent of total 1950 sales, claiming mature workers bring seasoned competence as a definite business asset. The remark underscores the value of midlife experience in boosting sales.

Minneapolis Grady Clark Investors Diversified Services, Inc

Winters and McGrea Star in Universal Western Frenchie

Universal-International presents Shelley Winters and Joel McCrea in the Technicolor Western Frenchie at the Princess Theatre. Winters plays Frenchie Fontaine returning to seek revenge for her father’s murder while McCrea as Sheriff Bann ing navigates gunplay and moral conflicts.

Shelley Winters Marie Windsor Hollywood Universal-International Princess Theatre Joel McCrea Miss Winters McCrea Sheriff Banning Frenchie Fontaine

Attic Aging Yields Century-Old Prize Whiskey

In Johnstown, Albert Michalides finds a quart bottle labeled Old Times Whiskey First Prize World’s Fair 1893 in his attic. The brand vanished from shelves, but Al and friends prize the drink as much today as in the Gay Nineties.

Johnstown Albert Michalides

Seaweed in Sargasso Sea Potentially Immortal

Researchers note seaweed drift in the Sargasso Sea appears to grow perpetually. The floating vegetation extends lengthwise as new tissue forms, suggesting a very long or effectively endless growth cycle under stable ocean conditions.

Sargasso Sea

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