Met Opera on Tour Aims for Grand Cities and Glitzy Nights
AP News profiles the Metropolitan Opera on a six week U S tour detailing the massive logistics of moving 65 principal artists, 92 musicians, and 36 dancers in nine productions across cities like Atlanta Dallas Memphis and Minneapolis. It notes extravagant social events surrounding performances and the precise backstage machine keeping each opera moving from city to city with box cars and transfer trucks.
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Corelli
Franco
Bing
Metropolitan Opera
Broadway
Kurt Adler
New York
Atlanta
Dallas
Memphis
Minneapolis
The
Met
Caruso
Boris Godunov
Tosca
Detroit
Cleveland
Jane Russell still cashes Hughes checks after six years
Hollywood star Jane Russell admits she has not acted in six years yet receives a $10 weekly payment from Hughes Tool Co. She signed a $1 million, 20 year contract in 1955 to ease taxes and keep security, while she concentrates on family and WAIF adoption work.
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Sel
Hughes Tool Co
Howard Hughes
Jane
Hughes
Mr. Blackwell
Russell
Las Vegas
Polish-American Day at LeSourdsville Lake Highlights
Polish entertainment with a hootennanny style and Krakowiak Dance Team of Dayton will enliven Polish-American Day at LeSourdsville Lake. Antique autos 1929 and older, owned by Southern Ohio Chapter members, decorate the mall. Benny Goldflies directs the club show. Four trained elephants headline free shows this week with two today. Jimmie James and his orchestra open Stardust Gardens dancing next Saturday night.
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LeSourdsville Lake
LeSourdsville
Krakowiak
Dayton
Southern Ohio
Antique Automobile Club of America
Ohio
Middletown
Benny Goldflies
Jimmie James
Stardust Gardens
Radio and TV Highlights for Today
Radio today lists Reds versus San Francisco at 1 30 on WPFB AM and 5 on WPFB FM with a supper club and a dance party later. TV schedules show Reds vs San Francisco at 1 30 on channels 2 and 5 and golf on channels 3 30, 7 and 9. Other programs include Meet the Press at 6 on channels 2 and 5, New Ark rescue of flamingos in Kenya, Mr Ed on channels 7, 9 and 2 12, Jane Wyman foretelling future on channel 2 12, Ed Sullivan repeat on 2 12, Inherit the Wind on Sund ay Night Movie with Tracy and March, Bonanza with a minstrel subplot at 9, True at 9 30 detailing a counterspy case, Show of the Week about the NYC Fire Rescue Department, and ABC News at 10 30 about small town newspaper survival.
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Ty. TV Today
Reds
San Francisco
PGA Golf
Ned Brooks
Jane Wyman
Ed Sullivan
Podrecca Piccoli
Italy
Lancer Tracy
Fredric March
OSI
New York City
Fire Rescue Department
ABC News
Thelma Ritter’s Daughter Debuts in Take Her, She’s Mine
Monica Moran, Thelma Ritter’s daughter, makes her acting debut as Sandra Dee’s beat in Take Her, She’s Mine. She says she was briefly annoyed by expectations tied to her mother’s fame but moved past it, noting she was angrier at herself than the joke.
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Hollywood
Monica Moran
Thelma Ritter
Sandra Dee
Nik
Mae West Twists at Peppermint Twist Event
Mae West made a rare public appearance at the Peppermint Twist, where emcee asks if she knows the dance. West replies with a quip about learning to twist before walking, wiggling her hips and wetting her lips for the audience.
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Hollywood
Mae West
Peppermint West
Rodgers creates $50,000 drama scholarship at Columbia
Composer Richard Rodgers established a $50,000 fund at Columbia University to provide a yearly scholarship in the dramatic arts. The endowment, added to a $150,000 Rodgers and Hammerstein Fund pledge, supports deserving youths pursuing theatrical careers. The piece notes Columbia’s 40-year alumnus and historic West Point class with two graduates in 1802, Joseph G. Swift and Simon M. Levy, who served in the War of 1812.
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New York
Richard Rodgers
Columbia University
Rodgers
Columbia
Rodgers and Hammerstein
West Point
Joseph G. Swift
Simon M.levy
Sponsors Unveil Off Broadway Package With Three Works
A musical and two plays are merged into an off-Broadway package by Gene Dingenary and Jane Gilliland. The lineup opens with The Lily about a 15th Century Bluebeard trial, followed by The Saving Grace and The Streets of New York adaptation.
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New York
Gene Dingenary
Jane Gilliland
Dion Boucicault
Archaeology in the Guadalupe Mountains Texas Spotlight
The article notes limited knowledge of the Guadalupe Mountains region in Texas, highlighting scarce archaeological data and signage of research gaps. It points to the broader Southwest as an area with comparatively little documented material from ancient human activity.
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Guadalupe Mountains
Texas
Southwest
Glamorous New York City Tour Package Still Available
Tour features include rail transportation and five nights hotel accommodations. Includes bus and yacht sightseeing trips, tours of United Nations NBC Studios Rockefeller Center Observation Roof, orchestra seats for Radio City Music Hall and one Broadway production. Night Club optional.
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United Nations
NBC
Rockefeller Center
Radio City
Music Hall
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AP News
Rudolf Bing
James V. Carmichael
Music Festival Association
Paramount
Burl Ives
Walt Disney
Paramount Theater
Hayley Mills
Dorothy McGuire
Deborah Walley
Eddie Hodges
Jimmy Mathers
Una Merkel
Peter Brown
Mignon Dunn
Lucine Amara
Jane Russell
Jane Rus
WAIF
Marilyn Monroe
Jayne Mansfield
Connie Haines
Beryl Davis
Riviera Hotel
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
American International
Nyanumret the Raven
Acon Price
Nmalorre Sensk Arloff
AVTON
Erroll Baker
Henry Fonda
Carolyn Jones
Lars Naldem
Gregory Peck
George Peppard
Robert Preston
Debbie Reynolds
James Stewart
Elt
Wallace John Wayne
Goldflies Music Store
Clinton St
Seadey
Dixie Hwy
Cruise
Miamisburg
Sinbad
Technicolor
Guy Williams
Heidi Bruhl
BRAVE
Rory Calhoun
William Bendix
Tena
Rte
Ham-Cleves Rd
Ham
Ross
Venice
SUN
MON
Lear
Venus
In Color
Pote Wee Sa
Radio Today
WPFB
Wpfb-Fm
Nual Governor's
Miami Beach
New Ark
Kenya
George Burns
Mr. Ed
Mae
Grand Ole Opry
Weaver Bros
Elvig
Roy Acuff
Hws
Smoky Mt Boys
RY Music
Natenanny
Queen OF the
Judy Canova
Scatterbrain
Gene Autry
N.Y.C
Sinatra
McGuire - Bill
Nuremberg
Seximiien
Stanley Kramer
Jupament
Abby Mad -Whmee
Ernest Gold
Stamley Kramer
United Artists
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