Motion Picture Stars Are Taking Spot In Television
New York reports motion picture actors are joining television in major roles with at least two dozen regulars on ABC CBS NBC and Dumont networks. Notables include Ameche Bellamy Dunont stars and radio film figures like Sinatra Monroe Murray Young plus regulars on WPIX. Actors discuss TV demands and how screen experience sharpens camera presence and rapid portrayal, with statements from Ameche Edmunds and soprano Poly na Stoska on acting for radio and TV.
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New York
ABC
Charles Ruggles
Betty Furness
Neil Hamilton
Don Ameche
NBC
Ethel Waters
Chico Marx
Stuart Erwin
CBS
Ralph Bellamy
Gene Autry
Faye Emerson
Jack Mulhall
Darla Hood
Frank Sinatra
Vaughn Monroe
Ken Murray
Alan Young
Dumont
Frances Langford
Roscoe Karns
Richard Hart
Lew Park
Benny Good
Robert Montgomery
William Gargan
Wendy Barrie
Nancy Carroll
Bert Lytell
Marjorie Gateson
Gabby Hayes
Groucho Marx
Bob Hope
Eddie Cantor
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Jimmy Durante
Jack Carson
William Edmunds
WPIX
Lorraine Day
Lynn Barr
Lila Lee
Jack Larue
Edward Everett Horton
Ernest Truex
Gloria Swanson
Wiliam Edmunds
Ameche
Holiday Hotel
Abc-Tv
Nbc-Tv
Edmunds
Maestro Toscanini Leaves Vilcania in New York Arrival
Rumors that the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini would be questioned by immigration officials under a new anti subversive law are dispelled. Toscanini, described as the greatest living conductor, debarked in New York aboard the Vilcania and his son Walter denied his father belonged to any political party during Mussolini's rise in Italy.
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Arturo Toscanini
Vilcania
New York
Walter
Mussolini
Israel's schools grow as classes rush to rise
Israeli schools expand to meet rising pupil numbers with 130,000 to 134,000 children over five expected for this year. The 1949-50 figure stood at 110,000 and about 17,000 Arab children are attending schools in various sectors.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Ministry of Education
Guilford Students Enroll At Mars Hill College
Sixteen Guilford county students join Mars Hill for 1950 51. Names include Eddie H Blackwell Franklin Lee Burton Etta Jean Jarvis Don Thomas Mateer Tommy D Simmons Donald C Smith Iris Jewell Summers Betty Love Dean Joann Green Mildred Joanne Henry Ruth Ellen Monroe Mona Rae Pennington Barbara Ann Short Mildred Jean Short Jean Stamey and Walter H Martin. Total enrollment 790 with 81 counties represented from NC and from 18 states plus Cuba and Panama Canal Zone. 348 women and 439 men.
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Mars Hill
Guilford County
Mars Hill College
Eddie H. Blackwell
Franklin Lee Burton
Etta Jean Jarvis
Don Thomas Mateer
Tommy D. Simmons
Donald C. Smith
Iris Jewell Summers
Greensboro
Betty Love Dean
Joann Green
Mildred Joanne Henry
Ruth Ellen Monroe
Mona Rae Pennington
Barbara -Ann Short
Mildred Jean Short
Jean Stamey
High Point
Walter H
Cuba
Colorado
Indiana
Washington
Panama Canal Zone
Finds Reds Play Rough In Korea War Tale
Marine Lt. Manning T. Jeter crawled toward a ridge to spot the enemy, heard an anti tank blast, and found his jeep destroyed. A few days later a shell hit near his shaving gear, leaving him with only a bottle of shaving lotion.
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Korea
Manning T. Jeter
Jeter
Publication of Spanish Book At Duke Announced
Durham reports a new Spanish language book South American Impressions by Dr. Juan Castellano of Duke University. The travelogue covers 8000 miles through Venezuela Colombia Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile and Argentina in diary form with idiomatic Spanish and a vocabulary by Marjorie Carter Dillingham. An English translation may follow.
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Durham
Jeep
South America
Juan Castellano
Duke University
Appleton-Century - Croft Company
Caracas
Venezuela
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
Argentina
Marjorie Carter Dillingham
Duke
Molasses Goofs Up Olney Truck Startup
In Olney Illinois Charles Butler grabbed a jug of oil but poured molasses into his truck’s oil tank. He noted the motor smelled sweet and ran poorly. Butler took the vehicle to a garage for a molasses change after he returned home.
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Olney
Ill
Charles Butler
Butler
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