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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1946
Page
9
A dense slate lists from today through Saturday featuring Joan Fontaine in From This Day Forward and Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Notable dates include House of Dracula and Lost City of Jungle serials with comedies, cartoons, and news reels peppering daily showings.
Louis K Liggett, 71, founder of the Liggett chain and United Rexall Drug Company, which owns 600 retail stores and serves 10 000 independent Rexall druggists in America and Canada, died Wednesday night in Washington.
A new Fontaine romance centers on a young married couple and their trials after marriage. Joan Fontaine plays the bride Susan with Mark Stevens as Bill the war veteran husband. Supporting cast includes Rosemary De Camp Henry Morgan and more in a Larry Berry directed slice of life with humor.
A college student-waiter quoted a saying asking for payment. Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel replied with a 16 cent tip payment. In another note, Ohio lists 495 bodies of water totaling 86 183 acres open to public fishing.
Hollywood gossip recounts a fracas outside the Hollywood Swing club where footballer Bob Waterfield slugged a heckler about his wife Jane Russell, losing his Rose Bowl wrist watch in the melee. Other items note John Payne and Gloria De Haven visiting Roanoke for a baby girl, Olivia de Havilland’s romance, Paulette Goddard mentoring a French teen, Susan Hayward’s twins pay, Perry Como eye trouble, Lana Turner’s NY trip and house sale, Sabu’s vacation, and more showbiz tidbits culled from Harrison Carroll’s Hollywood Bulletin column.
Lana Turner shines in a glamorized lead as Cora Smith beside John Garfield in the explosive crime romance The Postman Always Rings Twice. MGM brings the Cain best seller to the Center screen to a dramatic, fatal love triangle with Cecil Kellaway in a memorable supporting role.
Indiana veterans attending schools under the GI bill will receive advances on federal subsistence funds from the state until the Veterans Administration processes payments. A Council of State Governments poll shows more than 2000 Indiana veterans in school face financial hardship due to delayed subsistence checks from the VA.
In Binghamton New York two brothers aged 13 and 8 admitted to cashing an $80 government allotment check and spending 40 dollars on toys and gear. Their purchases included toy drums walkie talkies model airplanes servicemen items and gear plus steaks and a melon for meals. Also noted 1944 saw 2450 deaths from firearm accidents.
Lon Chaney Jr plays the Wolf Man with John Carradine as Count Dracula and Glenn Strange as Frankenstein in Dracula at the Broadhurst along with the Mad Doctor and Hunchback. Martha O Driscoll stars as the lab aide, with Lionel Atwill and Ludwig Stossel in supporting roles. An eye cartoon, musical comedy and world news round out the program.
In 1929 the United States recorded 551 bank failures and the following year 1930 saw 1345 failures as part of the banking crisis era.
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