Town Gossip and Oddball Tales From High Point Diary
A column recounts liquor stock dumping by Sgt. Lester Henley and a street-side crowd, echoes a Davidson County dry county joke, muses on jeweled girdles and black lace, and recalls carnival misadventures in Thomasville with Bob Marks and Bill Hodges.
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Henley
Davidson County
High Point
Wey
Society Department
Enterprise
Thomasville
Bob Marks
Bob
Ross Manning
Hight
Robert
Bill Hodges
The
Carnismall
Broadway's starry new season kicks into high gear
Broadway prepares a strong fall season with 29 openings. Notable debuts include Rosa Lind Russell Judy Holliday Katy Jurado Linda Darnell Shelley Winters and Ethel Merman plus stars Walter Slezak Barry Sullivan Maurice Evans and Charles Laughton. International troupes Old Vic Oslo and Paris companies join the lineup under Sol Hurok. Saint Joan opens Sept 11 at Phoenix Theatre with Siobhan McKenna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Penman
George Bernard Shaw
Rosalind Russell
Judy Holliday
Mexico
Katy Jurado
Linda Darnell
Shelley Winters
Claire Bloom
Ethel Merman
Sylvia Sidney
Anna Magnani
Walter Slezak
Barry Sullivan
Maurice Evans
Charles Laughton
Bert Lahr
Ezio Pinza
Edmund Purdom
David Wayne
Ralph Richardson
Walter Pidgeon
Filmland
London
Old Vic
Norway National Theatre
Oslo
Madeleine Renaud-Jean Barrault Thespians
Paris
Sol Hurok
Siobhan McKenna
Shaw
Phoenix Theater
Helen Hayes
Eugene O'Neill
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Dick Bickerton
Lester Henley
Police Department
Lexington
Ra Point
Hodges
Logan
W. Va
U.S. 119
Tion
O'Neill
David Roos
Quare
Carmen Capalbo
Stanley Chase
Th Opera
Greenwich Village
Bijou
Emlyn Williams
Plymouth
Evans
Barbara
Laughton
Burgess Meredith
Glynis Johns
Eli Wallach
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Roz Russell
Slezak
Miss Winters
Miss Darnell
the Playhouse
Robert Alda
Norman Vane
Ing
Voltaire
Lillian Hellman
Leonard Bernstein
Anna Christie
Peter Palmer
Abner
Turner
Shakespearewrights
Hamlet
Wwork
Matic Electric
Holton-Hodgin Furniture
Jamestown, N. C
Roberts
Strawberry Design
China
Flower
Park Brown
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