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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1949
Page
15
Hollywood reporting on stunt work notes doubles cover most perilous scenes in features while serials demand real risk star power. Tom Neal of Bruce Gentry epitomizes cliff hanger danger with multiple near escapes and stunts per episode.
Shirley Temple rejoins the set of Mr Belevedere Goes To College with her daughter Susan a three foot doll from France ten years ago. Roy Rogers rests after ten years in film and eyes a future western starring his wife Dale Evans. Joan Crawford trains dance skills for a potential musical. Richard Widmark enjoys a three day rest between Slattery's Hurricane shoots. House committee investigations nudge Hollywood titles with Red themed films and a dialog change in Ma and Pa Kettle noting wartime era sensitivities.
Six film concerns sue Colonial Theaters of Asheville for 3000 dollars each in federal court alleging false statements on gross receipts from 1940 onward. Plaintiffs Warner Brothers, Universal, RKO, Columbia, United Artists, and Paramount distribute films to theaters on a box office percentage. Defendants are George Carpenter J Vernon Benfield and J S Hinson operating as Colonial Theaters.
California and Nevada tremors draw attention from millions anxious about a major quake. Scientists note the San Andreas fault area remains tectonically active with ongoing minor quakes, aftershocks, and foreshocks, but warn there is no reliable forecast for timing or magnitude.
Public sale at the courthouse door in High Point NC at 10 AM January 24 1949 of Lots 7 and 3 of the H A Barnes property in Jamestown Township Guilford County described by recorded plat NW C Book 13 page 88 fronting Cedrow Ave Extension with depths of 467.42 and 496 feet and back 135.06 feet. James W. Clonts trusteeaturing the deed of trust by Gilbert A. Johnson.
In a report from Valdese to Taylorsville, the Chaillot Palace near where the United Nations met is cited as the location Napoleon planned a grand palace that he never saw completed.
Jack Benny participates in a Los Angeles City Hall event to raise funds for the March of Dimes. He stretches a point by contributing 10 pennies as the safe tours 30 cities in a covered wagon.
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