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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1952
Page
4
A brief notice explains a new daily message game using birth dates to determine a key number. Players circle chart letters under their number and read across to reveal a modern Aladdin's Lamp style word guidance for tomorrow.
A roundup of upcoming projects and casting notes from major studios. The Jazz Singer appears before Technicolor cameras withDanny Thomas and Peggy Lee co starring. Terry Moore starts The Man on a Tightrope in Europe. Rosemary DeGano returns as Doris Day's mother in By the Light of the Silvery Moon. George Jessel launches Rip Van Winkle Junior with Jimmy Durante. Abbott and Costello go to Mars at US and Virginia Mayo, Steve Cochran, Frank Lovejoy, Gene Nelson and Patrice Wymore join Back to Broadway at Warners. Ramon Navarro debuts as a nightclub singer in Toronto. Joan Rice signs for Majesty O Keefe but keeps her umbrella. Stars and Stripes Forever adds tones for Clifton Webb as Sousa. Sherry Jackson heads to New York for The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima premiere with Gilbert Roland and Angela Clarke. Rhonda Fleming’s son Kent appears in The Serpent of the Nile. John Wayne jokes about a circus elephant.
Global film notes from Dublin to Brooklyn. Hu fler’s former ambassador runs a local bakery. Venice ponders canal filling for housing. Prague flags Gottwald’s rise. Statue of Liberty nods in a wind. West Berlin studies retroactive compensation for wartime mothers. Cab Calloway plans London theater study. Berle and Ray at Grossinger’s tease patterns. Rome ads on streetcars. Chicago mentions Marva Louis at an insurer. London reports a royal glamour tease and tax hints. Las Vegas jokes insured by Lloyds. New York notes rent sign at UN center and Niven, Critchard, and Regan links. Hollywood chatter shifts from Lockhart to Garson. Paris gears for Bidault’s rise and forger rings. Brooklyn deli shuts Aug 10 due to illness.
Associated Press reports scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of the nation including New England mired in drought relief while Gulf states saw warmth and humidity. Central plains and northern Great Lakes cooled with relief from heat, Pacific Coast remained cloudy with drizzle. A two minute 82 mph windstorm hit Monmouth County New Jersey felling houses and damaging McGuire Air Force Base installations at Fort Dix.
The Pantagraph of Bloomington, co owned by Adlai Stevenson, editorially praises both candidates without backing a side. The paper, usually Republican, notes McLean County is farming and favored Stevenson in the governor race four years ago, while criticizing the Truman era for spending and inefficiency.
In Buenos Aires Eva Peron is buried after a funeral led by President Juan D. Peron. The ceremony marks a week of national mourning as embalmers prepare a monument plan to house her corpse and honor her memory with a public memorial funded by a worker subscription.
Milton Brouhard of 1133 Pine Ave a former Press Telegram reporter is named editor of Pulse a field publication of Occi dental Life Insurance Co of California He edited the magazine for General Telephone Directory Co in Long Beach before taking the new post He is a graduate of Long Beach City College.
Local band announces a two day schedule with afternoon concerts August 12 and 14 at 2:00 PM and a shift to an evening program including overture and foxtrot selections.Event details are partially garbled but indicate performances by Long Beach Municipal Band with pieces likely including overtures and popular tunes.
Mae West hones a no birthday topic during a New London interview while on summer tour. She discusses plans for a Broadway project titled Sextette, described as six short plays about an actress marrying for the sixth time, and shares showbiz anecdotes amid a heat wave.
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