Color TV Extravaganzas Move Into NBC Fall Schedule
NBC plans 39 color spectaculars for 1954 55 embracing Your Show of Shows and music specials. Max Liebman will direct Sunday color segments and color 90 minute programs. Leland Hayward team to produce early October Monday slots. NBC Space in Brooklyn studio and EMI offer The American Story radio scripts to stations nationwide.
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Brooklyn
CIO Oil Union Eyes Three Dollar Hourly Minimum
The CIO Oil Workers International Union chief said a three dollar hourly minimum is not excessive for oil workers and will back a wage program at a June convention in Cleveland. Knight indicated a national policy committee will decide if a wage campaign should launch, noting current average hourly wages exceed 82.05 cents.
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Hollywood Biblical Film Cycle Accelerates with Big Budgets
Hollywood eyes a fresh wave of Bible tales after The Robe with a 540 million push into many "super colossal" pictures. Projects include The Egyptian Ten Commandments Joseph and His Brothers Land of the Pharohs The Prodigal The Big Fisherman Woman of Babylon Ben Hur The Silver Chalice The Story of Ruth and The Song of Songs plus The Greatest Story Ever Told planned for 16 years. Cecil B DeMille leads with Ten Commandments including a 325 by 107 foot set to depict Tanis walls and gates. Historical notes recount DeMille’s 1921 Exodus production and Dieterle’s Do Steop film using vast crowds and animals. early silent cycles mirrored by multiple Passion Play films. Tenants look for four in the For Rent columns.
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Bare Racing Salaries To Officials Revealed
The Journal-Bulletin reports that public officials receive more than 150000 a year in salaries from eight New England tracks. It lists 33 New Hampshire legislators 10 Rhode Island solons a mayor several tax assessors councillors and selectmen in Massachusetts as officials employed at tracks. Rockingham Park in Salem NH offers a free bar to NH legislators during sessions drawing criticism for potential conflicts of interest. Total Rockingham payroll for NH legislators is about 20000 annually. Dog tracks also increasing expenses and outlays.
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Heart Attack Fatal to Iowa Farm Chief
Des Moines reports Raymond Sayre aged 61 a nationally known Iowa farm leader died Sunday night at a Des Moines hospital from a heart attack. Sayre on May 5 was seriously injured when struck by a falling tree on his Ackworth Iowa farm and had been a hospital patient since. He and wife Ruth were prominent farm figures. Mrs Sayre serves on the National Agricultural Advisory Commission.
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Beria Removed From Russian History
The U S Information Agency reports Lavrenti Beria is being erased from Russian history. Russian newspapers via Vienna indicate his name has been deleted from the roster of the Russian State Committee of Defense, the body that directed mobilization in World War I. Previously he was listed as a top member in the five-man group under Stalin.
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Grace Kelly styles the new socialite screen sirens
Hollywood trades say Grace of Philadelphia started a trend as socialite beauties shift to cinema, with Allison Hayes and Fran Lansing following. Both found by agents via society circles, they face tough hours and early dating culture while pursuing contracts and screen tests at major studios.
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Long Beach Drive-In Theatre Listings May 24
Local showings for Monday May 24 include a sequence of film times across several theaters. Listings show titles such as Make Haste to Lives and Johnny Guitar with varied start times and multiple price points, reflecting a busy evening program.
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