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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1959
Page
8
Classified prompt urged readers to place auto sale ads by dialing HE 2 5959. It invites buyers to start a listing immediately and notes a daily classified section. The notice emphasizes quick action for both buyers and sellers in the local market.
West Coast premiere of Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw was staged at Schoenberg Hall UCLA with Jan Popper as musical director. Performers Ella Lee, Barbara Patton, Carolyn Gibson, Ann Dubin, and others received praise for their roles and dramatic delivery. The review notes modern score and strong vocalaking, with film contract issues for Leo Carrillo State Park discussed.
Sacramento actor member Leo Carrillo urged the State Park Commission to pre screen movies and TV shows filmed in state parks. He cautioned against contaminating the body's dignity with indiscriminate connections and stressed knowing the film content before granting permission.
A Santa Monica judge canceled a bench warrant for Italian actress Petr Angeli after previously ordering it. Angeli had taken her 3-year-old son Perry to Europe defying a court order obtained by her ex-husband singer Vic Damore. Proceedings were continued to May 25 as the judge questioned the proceeding's legality.
UPI reports Negro singer Herb Jeffries obtained a fast divorce in Juarez, paving the way for his marriage to white stripper Tempest Storm. Also noted is the death of William James Gilmore, 74, emeritus professor at Oregon State College, who led the agricultural engineering department. A Mexico City dispatch notes Bolivia offers the cheapest movie tickets among the region, with Mexican cinema tickets at about 32 cents and Bolivian tickets at 5 cents.
Eliza Beth Ann Duncan, condemned to die for a role in her daughter in law Olga Duncan’s killing, describes screams and nightmares while in solitary confinement at California Institution for Women. She laments her fate on a birthday visit from her son Frank Duncan and says she cannot imagine life outside her frame of mind.
A mine planted by Algerian rebels damaged a locomotive and eight cars at dawn near Algiers between Capetown and Orleansville. No casualties were reported. The Interior Ministry announced bans on Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian in South Africa for anti Christian and godless content.
Ingrid Bergman described feeling very moved by the Hollywood welcome upon return after a decade abroad. She plans to live in Paris, hopes to act again by next winter, and discussed custody matters involving her children with Roberto Rossellini as a Rome court delays a ruling until May 6.
A classified note offers a business opportunity to place a portunity advertisement. It mentions contacting via phone number 2-5959 for sales talk and business details. The fragmentary text implies a sales pitch for a classified business opportunity.
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