Tent Show Ends Era of Toby Plays in Midwest
WAPELLO Iowa AP touring folk theater nears final curtain as Neil and Caroline Schaffner retire after this season They have toured Iowa Illinois Missouri with Toby and Susie characters since 1913 and built a 1600 seat tent troupe They seek a buyer to carry on the tradition as their tour ends next September in Missouri and Illinois towns
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Indiana
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Toby Haxton
Fort Dodge
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Lewiston
Palmyra
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Pa Schaffner
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Macon
Mount Pleasant
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New Sharon
Hollywood Cooling Off On Remakes Of Old Hits
Hollywood notes a decline in remakes as box office returns falter. Despite many classic films redone, big-budget efforts like Cimarron, The Four Horsemen, and Cleopatra face weak returns. Directors Wyler and Capra see old-fashioned results. State Fair and Sergeants Three perform better, while the era of costly revivals cools. Separately, Henry Clay once urged a Canadian capture via Kentucky Militia.
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Hollywood
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Frank Capra
Hypnosis Helps Tony Curtis Overcome Fear of Flying
Tony Curtis, who avoided air travel for years due to a flight phobia, underwent hypnosis and soon flew around Lake Tahoe while filming. Encouraged by friends, he plans flying lessons, aims for a pilot’s license, and hopes to own a plane. He previously relied on trains and boats for productions.
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Damita Jo Live at the Diplomat Swinging in Hollywood
Damita Jo debuts a live album at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood Florida delivering energetic versions of Birth of the Blues and a lively river theme while the Boston Symphony and RCA Victor offer classical pairs like Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy with Till Eulenspiegel. RCA’s Summer Festival features 19 selections by 20 artists. Vaughn Monroe’s Greatest Hits revisits Racing with the Moon. a 23 Glee Club Favorites set by the Robert Shaw Chorale. Jan August Styles Great International Hits brings Brazil and India rounds, and Ray Bolger appears in All American with Diahann Carroll and Richard Kilkey performing No Strings.
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Mercury
Bill Bailey
Damito Jo
Diplomat Hotel
Hollywood, Fla
Boston Symphony
RCA Victor
Till Eulenspiegel
Richard Strauss
Till
RCA
Renata Tebaldi
Jussi Bjoerling
Grofe
Jan
Brazil
India
London
Ray Bolger
Professor Fodorski
Vienna
Columbia
Diahann Carroll
Richard Kirley
Richard Rodgers
Capitol
Robert Preston Stars In Picture Not On Your Life
Hollywood star Robert Preston known for The Music Man will headline Warner Bros forthcoming film Not On Your Life. Morton DaCosta returns as producer and director, with a story by Leo Katcher and screenplay by David Schwartz. Filming will partly occur in Greece starting this summer, with DaCosta scouting the Greek islands next month.
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Robert Preston
Warner Bros
Morton DaCosta
Leo Katcher
David Schwartz
Greece
DaCosta
New York
Havoc to Play Her Mother in Gypsy Production
June Havoc will portray her own mother in a future stock production of Gypsy. The musical draws on Gypsy Rose Lee’s autobiography and follows their vaudeville childhood under an ambitious matriarch. The Paper Mill Playhouse in Milburn, New Jersey, hosts the performance next fall.
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June Havoc
Miss Havoc
Gypsy Rose Lee
Paper Mill Playhouse
Milburn
N. J
Scotch-Irish Shirley Becomes Geisha in Hollywood Makeover
Frank Westmore, a top makeup artist, details transforming Scotch-Irish Shirley MacLaine into a demure Geisha for My Geisha. He explains using twelve makeup trials over three weeks, binding hair, a heavy lacquered wig, slanted blue eyes, and new arched eyebrows to reshape her oblong face into a softer, rounder look.
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Frank Westmore
Westmore
Dorothy Lamour
Paulette Goddard
Betty Hutton
Debbie Reynolds
Lilli Palmer
Vera Miles
Wmore
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley
Miss MacLaine
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