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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1955
Page
10
New York reports that Blanche Ring, veteran musical comedy star famed for songs like Rings on My Fing and Belinde, will go home after an operation to remove a laryngeal tumor. Her voice is now a husky whisper and she says she may never sing again. Ring began in Boston in 1902 and rose to fame with many hit shows and songs.
Hollywood sources report Robert Wagner, age 25, moving from the boy-next-door image to a murder mystery lead in Be Kiss Before Dying. The suspense tale centers on a young man who plots to help a pregnant lover and faces moral decay as a crime story yields personal peril.
A British company introduced a silent plastic wrapping for chocolates to end noisy wrappers at theaters. Two hundred boxes were tested at a Philharmonic Society concert, and officials reported only music being heard, leading to the society lifting its chocolate with music ban.
June Allyson and Dick Powell plan to attend with other Hollywood stars as Judy Garland brings her stage show to Municipal Auditorium for the Long Beach Exceptional Children's Foundation benefit.
The Oklahoma City Symphony, a leading orchestra, has lost 11 musicians since spring. A resigning player cites public disinterest as a factor and says wholesale resignations may wake the public to the danger facing the ensemble.
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