Long Distant Assignment at Monroe Little Theatre
Actor Sam Haigler Henry of Shreveport appears with Monroe Little Theatre director Thom Fenerstein to finalize his repeat role as Joseph in My Three Angels for the 1954 55 season. Sources say he may be the first actor to commute 220 miles round trip for a stage production.
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Monroe Little Theatre
Sam Haigler Henry
Shreveport
Thom Fenerstein
Joseph
Henry
Little Theatre
North
Louisiana
Monroe
Shreveport Times
Centenary
Walter Slezack
Vyhe
Shreveport Journal
Larry Ronson
Shreveport Actor Commutes for Monroe Play
Sam Haigler Henry, a Shreveport actor, will join Monroe Little Theatre as Joseph in My Three Angels. The actor, a Logansport native and optometrist, has earned strong praise and was recently accepted by the American Theatre Wing.
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Henry
Joseph
Shreveport
Pericles Alexander
Southwest
Shreveport Times
Alexander
Monroe Little Theatre
Thom Feuerstein
Twin Cities
Logansport
American Theatre Wing of
New York
American Theatre
Helen Hayes
Southern School of Optometry
Memphis
Tenn
Lake Charles
Henry shines in regional theater and on Broadway comparison
The article compares Henry’s performance to Walter Slezak’s acclaimed Broadway take and notes his wide stage work. It highlights his roles in My Three Angels at Centenary Drama Festival, The Shreveport Little Theatre, Courtyard Players, and university productions, plus a WREC radio show and a 220 mile round trip commute for a seven night run opening October 14 at Selman Field Playhouse.
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The
Sun
University of Houston
Sheridan Whiteside
Charles
Memphis
Tenn
Little Theatre
John
John Loves
Mary
Hoeman
Sir Robert Morton
WREC
Thom Feuerstein
L. H. Carter
Lealis Hale
Elizabeth Langford
Julius Cahn
Henry Will
Selman Field Playhouse
Six Negroes Arrested for Disorderly Conduct in Card Game
City detectives raided a Jackson Street house after tips of gambling. Six men Sam Johnson Will Richmond Charlie Horn Richmond Goins Bob Childs and Virgil Standard were charged with disorderly conduct and the occupant was charged with running a disorderly house. The men admitted playing cards but denied gambling.
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Jackson Street
Hugh Tolbert
Sam Johnson
Will Richmond
Jackson
Charlie Horn
Morton
Richmond Goins
Bob Childs
Benjamin
Virgil Standard
Thomas
Tolbert
Two Negroes Injured in Two-Car Monroe Crash
Two Monroe residents were injured Monday morning in a two car collision at South 5th and Plum. Henry Porter and Annie Mae Porter, both 32 and 42 respectively, suffered bruises and knee abrasions after their car rolled several times before stopping about 140 feet from impact. They were taken to Charity hospital. The other driver, W O Bradley, 18, was uninjured.
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Monroe
Charity Hospital
Multhearn
Porter
South Std
Phim
W. O. Bradley
Louis Loch Homes
Bradley
Monroe Detectives Crack Down on Prostitution
Monroe city detectives arrested Ida Hill of 500 Lamey Lane on charges of prostitution and lewd behavior. Bond set at 500 dollars. Nearly 20 people were arrested in similar cases in the past week.
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Monroe
Ida Hill
Lamey Lane
Merchants Warned of Check Cashing Ring
Monroe police warn all area merchants to watch for two unidentified Black men suspected of cashing fake Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp checks in Baton Rouge. The duo, spotted in Monroe Saturday, fled after cashing a $57.50 check at N A Mansour’s and attempting another nearby at Jacobs. Checks bore payee David King and signatory C M Carter. Police urge reporting any similar checks.
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Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Baton Rouge
Monroe
Hugh Tolbert
Neproes
N. A
Jacobs
Chemical Corporation
David King
C. M. Carter
Tolbert
Sheriff’s Department
Sheriff Arrests Two Wanted in Tallulah
Ouachita Parish sheriff's office says Rosie Lee Isbell aged 22 and Lewis Hubbard aged 34 were arrested here at 10:48 p.m. Saturday on battery warrants from Tallulah and were returned to Tallulah Sunday morning after the Tallulah sheriff's office reported they were heading this way in a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallulah
Ouachita Parish
Rosie Lee Isbell
Lewis Hubbard
Bailey Grant
Nuclear weapon effect schooling amid U S Soviet race
The piece notes Gen Omar Bradley and others urging allies in Europe to understand atomic attack potential as tactical atomic arms spread. It cites Strauss on U S lead in atomic weapons and warns European nations fear becoming battlegrounds in a U S U S S showdown, per Air University Quarterly Review.
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Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
Europe
Russia
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
France
Germany
Air University Quarterly Review
Air University At
Maxwell Air Force Base
Ala
U.S
U.S.S
UN Assembly Debates Peiping Representation
Debate centers on two opposing positions over Panama and three others Norway France and Portugal. The list includes British Danish and Norwegian delegations whose governments recognize Red China and a new chance to vote to keep Peiping's representatives out.
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Panama
Norway
France
Portugal
China
Peiping
Democrats struggle for influence within Stevenson era network
The piece outlines a power struggle within the Democratic Party between Steele Stevensons allied regulars and late comers under Stephen A Mitchell as they contest the 1956 nomination. It notes Harry S Truman’s disengagement, Stevenson’s leverage if the Eisenhower record holds, and potential succession plans centered on Paul Butler with opponents Oscar Chapman Michael V. DiSalle and James Finnegan.
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Stevenson
Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
National Committee
Stephen A. Mitchell
Tome Mitchell
Paul Butler
Indiana
Butler
Oscar Chapman
Secretary of the Interior
Michael V. DiSalle
Price
James Finnegan
Philadelphia
Congress
Mitchell
Woman Arrested For Felony Theft In Monroe
Monroe woman Helen Pixley 2300 South Grand Street was arrested Saturday night on felony theft charges after D. I. Roberts reported $85 stolen from his wallet. Roberts said he was beaten when he and Pixley’s associates learned she was in custody, and detectives planned further arrests if a warrant is sworn.
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Monroe
Helen Pixley
South Grand Street
D. I. Roberts
Forsythe Park
Tolbert
Roberts
Pixley
Helen Varnell
Powell to answer questions in federal inquiry
Clyde Powell invokes the Fifth Amendment as the Banking Committee notes a criminal record. Powell’s attorney denies the record’s accuracy while a grand jury date remains tentative. The FHA reorganization follows FBI inquiries into irregularities. Foreclosures on 39 projects with loans over 32 million dollars. 74 indictments against 136 people with 67 convictions in 1953-54.
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Banking Committee
Powell
Daniel B. Maher
Washington
Justice Department
FHA
FBI
Chest X Ray Unit to Begin Survey in Sears Town
Dr. W. Carroll Summer announced a mobile Chest X ray unit from the Louisiana State Health Department will move into Monroe on Tuesday September 21 to begin a Tuberculosis Case Finding Project. The Sears Town location at 1501 Louisville Avenue will host the unit Tuesday morning through Friday noon with X rays from 8 to 12 and 1 to 4 daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Carroll Summer
Ouachita Parish
Louisiana State Department of Health
Monroe
Sears Town
Louisville Avenue
Summer
McDonald warns AFL over Mine Mill split in unions
McDonald cites jurisdiction and accuses the AFL of overreaching into Mine Mill workers seeking to leave their union. He notes Mine-Mill was expelled from CIO in 1950 for alleged communist leadership and says USW is absorbing Mine-Mill members while AFL pressures to recruit them.
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McDonald
American Federation of Labor
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Mrs Est her Brown dies after house fire smoulder
Mrs Esther Brown died after a fire started by a cigarette in a settee and she collapsed while trying to reach the hall. The death scene and timeline involve her maid last seen at about 4 p.m. Saturday and son Robert Ewing Brown of Little Rock as the last to see her alive. Survivors include three sons Edmund Graves Brown Jr Toulmin Hunter Brown and Robert Ewing Brown Jr and a large extended family. The deceased attended Sweet Briar College and belonged to Episcopal churches in New Orleans and Shreveport.
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Patricia Ewing de Berardinis
Shreveport
Marshall Powell
New Orleans
Ester Ewing
Robert Ewing, III
James L. Ewing
Monroe
Robert Ewing, Jr
John D. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Toulmin Ewing
James J. Ewing
Mrs. Brown
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar
Trinity Episcopal Church
St. Marks Episcopal Church
Kid Glove Bandit Pleads Guilty in Two Robberies
Billy Joe McLaughlin an 18 year old dubbed the kid glove bandit pleaded guilty to robbery charges before Judge David I Garrett in district court. He confessed to taking 160 dollars from a night clerk at Collie Courts West Monroe on September 2 and 60 dollars plus a pistol from the Old Glory Motel Monroe ten nights later. He was arrested Friday afternoon in a rooming house across from the courthouse. He wore black leather gloves in both hold ups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Joe McLaughlin
David I. Garrett
McLaughlin
Collie Courts
West Monroe
Old Glory
Monroe
Senate panel debates subcommittee membership powers
The special committee questions Senate parliamentarian Watkins on whether a full committee must veto subcommittee appointments after Monroney's resignation. Watkins testified Hayden could appoint himself to fill a vacancy, citing a 1912 precedent, and that chairmen typically have the right to name subcommittee members under customary practice.
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Monroney
Full Rules Committee
Kayden
McCarthy
Hayden
Senate
Watkins
Edward B. Williams
Sen
Utah
Ife
Contempt Charge Details Highlight McCarthy Hearings
Sen Watkins questions if a subcommittee can file a valid report without all members hearing evidence in a quasi judicial expulsion matter. Parliamentarian cites likely yes. The special committee’s five main charge groups include the McCarthy contempt claim from public hearings concluded last week.
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Sen. Watkins
Watkins
McCarthy
Special Committee
AFL Convention Weighs 35-Hour Week And Higher Minimum Wage
The AFL council urged the convention to back a 35 hour work week to spread jobs and asked Congress to raise the minimum wage from 75 cents to 1.25 dollars. It labeled unemployment as labor’s top problem, noting five million jobless when part timers and short workers are counted. Delegates were expected to approve a neutral arbitration plan to settle interunion disputes.
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James P. Mitchell
AFL Council
Congress
AFL
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U. S
Robert Strausz-Hope
University of Pennsylvania
Air War College
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Federal Reserve System
First National Bank
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