Hollywood's location gamble in Rome and Venice heats up
Hollywood moves beyond studios to Italy for filming Rome and Venice lure producers, stars, and crews. Orson Welles in Venice illustrates Italian sets and incentives, while costs favor Hollywood workers. language and labor pressures challenge Americans as Italy becomes Europe’s movieland with multiple films and new TV shorts planned.
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Sanford Markey
Central Press
Hollywood
Seven Hills
Rome
Canals
Venice
Italy
Shoe Shine
America
Movieland
States
Florence
St. Mark’s Square
Orson Welles
Europe
Winborne Proposes State Loans to Phone Firms
Raleigh. Utilities Commission Chairman Stanley Winborne advocates a state loan fund for financially pressed telephone companies. He calls the idea new and undecided on administration but says financial aid will be needed. He suggests a program modeled on the Rural Electrification Authority with rates high enough to cover costs and return, yet low enough for small firms to borrow.
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Winborne
State
Raleigh
Feb
Rural Electrification Authority
Library Adds Wide Range of New Books to Local Shelves
High Point Public Library announces additions to both reference and circulating collections. New reference titles include dictionaries, histories, religion, and literature by Velasquez Henderson Blakiston Del Monte and Schweitzer. The circulating shelf gains works on politics, religion, design, biographies, drama, travel, and fiction, plus light romances and mysteries. A note highlights corn as a highly valued American crop.
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High Point Public Library
Velasquez
First State University
Henderson
Blakiston
New Gould Medical Dictionary
Directory of
North Carolina Manufacturing
Fell
United States
del Monte
Rogers
Hammerstein
Edgerton
Craven
Pulvac
Berelson
Garceau
Speer
Pitkin
Bell
Leonard
Lofts
Baerth
Poling
Bays
Man
Barry
Christ
Oldham
Jones
Lutheran Church In
Wentz
Lasker
Lilienthal
Huszar
Department of State
Stuart
Bush
Treasury of Southern Folklore
Botkin
Clapp
Read
Baird
Anson
Minneoke
Woods
Meineke
Canasta Michaels
Miller
Morley
Saroyan
Gassner
Schweitzer
Trollope
Johnson
Hessler
Moscow
Smith
Hornung
Barnes
Ruark
Arnold
Roosevelt
Stettinius
Chapman
John Milton
Hanford
Eugene O'Neill
Clark
Schweit
Zer
Amory
Bristow
Let—Carr
Cary
Secret Valeys
Cousins
Brother—Dowdey
du Maurier
Venus
National Grange and Council sponsor soil essay contest
Grange essay contest on Soil Fertility and the Nation's Future runs through April 15 1950 with state and national prizes totaling 10000 for youths through age 20. Entries must be sent to Oak View Subordinate Grange Woodlawn Road High Point by May 10 1950. Undersecretary A J Loveland chairs the judging panel with noted scholars and educators.
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James A. Hogue
Oak View
Subordinate Grange
National Grange
American Plant Food Council
Grange
Hogue
Woodlawn Road
High Point
A. J. Loveland
Hugh H. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
U.S.D.A
Lois Clark
Division of Rural Services
National Educational Association
W. T. Spanton
Agricultural Education Service
U. S. Office of Education
M. L. Wilson
Bus Tragedy in Japan Kills 22 Plunges Into Pond
Kyodo reports 22 dead and 40 injured after an overcrowded bus, carrying 62 passengers, skidded and fell into a pond near Kumamoto on Kyushu. The bus's normal capacity was 35, with all survivors wounded.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Kumanoto
Kyushu
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