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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1958
Page
20
Richard Stier a diamond cutter by trade creates crowns from tin cans and costume jewelry approximating famous regal pieces. He offers replicas at a price not exceeding three dollars per crown in Irvington New Jersey.
Uncle Ory and Nosey plan a Wednesday Lake show with daytime and evening performances on the midway promenade stage. Rides will run at reduced prices. Harmony Kings debut at Stardust Gardens Wednesday with Ladies Night free admission. Earl Holderman Orchestra Friday at the Gardens. Sammy Kaye next week. Teen Hop with emcee Bob Patton grows in popularity. Industrial picnics scheduled Saturday. Park arrangements by Auto Lite and others. Naval pets ban noted from historical practice on British warships with 1560 animals aboard ships.
AP Newsfeatures writer reviews Cook’s Tour of High Fidelity a DIY kit of soap opera sounds including a cat dog fight. The piece notes other albums with Mitch Miller Vienna State Opera and Dukes of Dixieland plus various orchestras and themes, concluding with a roundup of light entertaining records.
In New York Paul Buiar reports how the novelty record PPE or People Eater by Sheb Wooley exploded from a Los Angeles riddle exchange. Don Robertson sparked the idea, Wooley wrote the song, MGM released it after delays, moving toward millions in sales and multilingual recordings.
About 300 Arabian horses from Yugoslavia were brought to Rome to pull Ben Hur chariots. They were trained by Glenn Randall, a Hollywood cowboy. Randall quips he trained Trigger and jokes about teaching animals to perform feats, noting the chariots here have ball bearings and hydraulic brakes.
North Wales is chosen to double for Formosa as a Chinese city rises atop a hill. Studio technicians built a walled Chinese settlement and a Chinese graveyard to simulate the Orient for the true story of an English servant girl seeking missionary work in China. Locals reacted with surprise as pubs opened to view the unusual set.
Location scouts for Roots of Heaven found exterior desert like terrain near Fontainebleau, about 30 miles from Paris, off dirt roads through forests. Director John Huston and actor Trevor Howard praised the site saying it felt like Bangui and Africa, while filming in French Equatorial Africa.
Spring 1958 brings TV and radio stars plans to vacation or work, with many heading to Europe or Hawaii. Dinah Shore George Montgomery and children will tour Montana. Art Linkletter travels to Hawaii. Steve Allen and family head to Europe. Perry Como considers Europe and golf. Bert Parks Walter O Keefe and Peter Lawford also plan European trips.
Ingrid Bergman spends spare time on location teaching her free children in Portmeirion England learned words such as boy girl foot water and porter. In North Wales they form phrases and sentences though locals speak Welsh and English, causing confusion for the Rossellini children.
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