Carradine Critiques Shakespeare on TV and TV Industry
Hollywood interview with John Carradine complains that producing Shakespeare for television would require prestige programming, no commercials, and likely no profit. He questions the viability of live stage after video viewing and laments the quality of modern Shakespearean actors while praising past greats. Also reports Henry Louis Hood Jr dying after a hospital transfer following a car crash.
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Raymond Massey
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Maurice Evans
Richard I
Juliet
Louis Cathern
Len
Douglas Fairbanks
Robert Mantel
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Lake City Coach’s Dad and Grandmother Die Five Minutes Apart
Lake City High coach James B. Gilbert mourns as his father H. F. Gilbert age 52 and his grandmother Mrs D. 11 Gilbert die within five minutes of each other after his team was eliminated from the state tournament. H. F. Gilbert operated a restaurant for 31 years and leaves a widow, son, and several siblings. Funeral plans remain incomplete as services are arranged in Lake City and Kingston with survivors including six grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren across families in Florida.
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Legislature Reconvenes With Highway Bills Pending
FRANKFORT Kentucky lawmakers prepare to reconvene Monday with seven Chandler administration highway bills in position for run vote. Senate approved a bill to raise truck weight limits to 59 840 pounds and House backed a measure to lift state tax exemption on certain gas purchases, plus tweaks on gasoline loss deductions. Other items include a 100 million state highway bond issue and a two cent fuel tax hike for heavy vehicles. House also approved 300 000 to legislative staff salaries and expenses. Vote 76 to 2 with two Republicans voting no.
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Hollywood gossip notes hint at stars and shifts in 1956
Louella Parsons reports on Dino De Laurentiis and Vittorio De Sica filming a modern love story with Gina Lollobrigida and Silvana Magnano Odia. Fred MacMurray returns to Universal for Gun for a Coward with potential co stars. Mickey Rooney recovers and comments on Wally Cox. Barbara Stanwyck, Audrey Hepburn, Bill Holden plans, and Teresa Wright voice reaction rise. Louisville campaign note closes.
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Mexico
Million Dollar Theatre
Teresa Wright
Louella Paysons
Locan
Bob Crosby
Cathy
Las Vagas
James Dunne
Piper Laurie
Gene Nelson
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Robbery defendants sentenced in Dolan home case
Henry Leste Miles and Joseph Douglas Taylor received long terms for the Dolan whisky robbery. Sidney Rowlett Joe Gerardi and George Lofton also drew prison terms. Mayes faced potential death. Jury spent about three hours before presenting verdict to Judge Charles Gibert near midnight.
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Navy plans nuclear surface ship by 60
Washington report says the Navy will float the world’s first nuclear surface ship in early 1960. Rear Adm. Albert C. Mumma, head of the Bureau of Ships, announced plans to keep the atomic powered submarine Nautilus on its original fuel through a second year.
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