The News Business Power and Public Trust
Walter Winchell discusses the enduring power of the newspaper and its role in shaping public opinion. He contrasts print with radio and TV, notes historical clashes between press and presidents, and reflects on truth, government honesty, and the duties of the free press.
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Radio
Teevee
Mess
Sun
Europe
Coudr
John Adams
Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Free Press
Presidency
Pierre Salinger
U.S
Kennan
Russia
Shaw
Homer Bigart
Poland
Warner Bros Signs Karl Held for TV and Film Roles
Karl Held a New Jersey born actor with an MA in theatre arts from Purdue signs a term contract with Warner Bros. He appears in Broadway The World of Suzie Wong and begins with a part in The Gallant Men TV drama To Hold Up a Mirror. Jacqu line Beer, Paris born and recently unkissed on 77 Sunset Strip, earns her first on screen boss from Van Williams in The Tarnished Idol segment.
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Karl
Hollywood
Karl Held
New Jersey
Jacqueline Beer
Warner Bros
77 Sunset Strip
van Williams
Folies Bergere at Tropicana dazzle in Vegas feature
A lively Vegas review highlights the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana with Michel Kvarmathy Sony Azz and Llony Charmoii delivering a Parisian frolic of costumes and talent led by George Matson with Ray Sinatra and his orchestra. Also notes George Jessel at Showboat performing nostalgic New York tales in a six night engagement.
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Tropicana
Salvation Army
Manhattan
Michel
Kvarmathy
Sony Azz
Llony Charmoii
Louis Alv
George Matson
Ray Sinatra
George Jessel
Jesser
New York
Jessel
Vegas
Kettleberg Gardens
el Rancho Vegas
Carter and fellow comics eye cooperative summer theater move
Jack Carter aims to form a non profit repertory group with Jan Murray Buddy Hackett and Dick Shawn to stage experimental vehicles while also toying with a Ziegfeld style series to fund a theater venture. He recently played an amputee in Dr Kildare and suffered a knee flare up. Eleanor Roosevelt burial remark by Faye Emerson recalled. Willie Hartack dominates racing earnings in 1956 and Joe Garagiola signs with NBC separating from St. Louis Cardinals.
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New York
HTNS
Jack Carter
Red Buttons
Ernie Kovacs
Milton Berle
Carter
Guantanamo
Ed Sullivan
Miami Beach
Jason Robards
Palm Beach
Miami
Jan Murray
Buddy Hackett
Dick Shawn
Billy Rose
Jack
Dr Kildare
Richard Chamberlain
Willie Hartack
Joe Garagola
Hartack
Joe Garagiola
St. Louis Cardinal
NBC
Huntridge to stage six famed operettas in weekly series
A six week operetta series begins Tuesday Jan 8 at Huntridge Theatre through a Metro Goldwyn Mayer arrangement. Each Tuesday features matinee and evening showings of Rosé Marie The Merry Widow The Great Waltz Sweethearts The Chocolate Soldier and The Girl of the Golden West with stars Nelson Eddy Jeanette MacDonald Howard Kean Blyth Maurice Chevalier Rise Stevens.
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Huntridge Theatre
Metro Goldwyn-Myer Studios
Rudolf Friml
Rosé
Victor Herber
Oscar Straus
Sigmund Romberg
Nelson Eddy
Jeanette MacDonald
Howard Kee Ann Blyth
Maurice Chevalier
Rise Stevens
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J. Edgar Hoover
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FBI
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Pearl Harbor
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Raye
Rodgers & Hart
Mero
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NO. Third ST
Las Vegas
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Christine Kaufmann
Waldo Salt
Karl Tunberg
J Lee Thompson
Harold Hecht Ranr
EL Portal
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Stardust Drive-In
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N.Y. Eve
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Anthony Quinn
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Charlton Heston
Ben Hur
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Magnano
Yul Brynner
Tony Curtis
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Hy Gardner
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Milton Berie
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Guys and Dolls
EL Cortez
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Flamingo
Pear Bailey
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Newton Brothers
Frank Verna
Mel Calvert
MINT
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Pat Moreno
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Joey Bishop
George Jesse
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Anne Banged
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