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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1952
Page
3
Long Island columnist explains six handed Gin Rummy played by three on each side. Partners can see each other hands across the table and scoring sums team points. the piece discusses fairness and the clash between observation and rules.
Palace presents Helen Hayes and Van Heflin with Robert Walker in My Son John, plus Lion Down. Boris Karloff stars in Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi in Dracula. Esther Williams and Joan Evans lead Skirts Ahoy with Duck Doctor and Feathered Bullets.
a new six county council in Cedar Rapids named Hawkeye Area Boy Scout council formed from the Iowa River Valley council covering Iowa Johnson Washington counties and the Waubeek area council covering Benton Jones Linn counties, uniting regional scouting efforts.
A rule emphasizes quick decision making in games under mutual observation. Players may look freely but must not stall by waiting for teammates to act, ensuring steady game flow.
Helen Hayes comes back to film after 17 years in Leo McCarey’s timely drama My Son John at the Palace. Dean Jagger Van Heflin and Robert Walker star as Hayes husband son and government agent in a story of maternal love versus patriotic duty amid espionage allegations.
Technicolor musical Skirts Ahoy premieres at the Palace opening Friday. Three girls Esther Williams Vivian Blaine and Joan Evans join the navy to win or forget a man with Barry Sullivan Keefe Brasselle and Dean Miller leading the cast along with the De Marco sisters and Billy Eckstine. Williams plays a debutante who deserts her fiancé at the altar and falls for a Navy doctor while Evans is a shy homesick small town girl and Blaine a brassy Brooklyn ex salesperson.
Siegfried line storming film The Tanks Are Coming opens Thursday at the Uptown. Steve Cochran plays a sergeant opposite Philip Carey as a lieutenant with Mari Alden making her film debut. The second feature is The Girl on the Bridge with an unknown cast.
The Wapello Presbyterian church dedicates an $8,000 Friendship Hall with an 11 am morning service led by Rev. M L Blake and a 6 30 pm supper followed by a programs featuring Dr H J Findlay and William Collitz. The open house and dinner will be held June 5 with the Young Adult class serving meals.
Shiloh school in Bloomington township closed for the year with a basket dinner and entertainment. Games and contests for women and children were held with prizes awarded. Donna Kay Owen received a fountain pen and pearl necklace from the teacher, Mrs. James Van Camp, for eighth grade honors.
Upcoming Muscatine events listed by the Chamber of Commerce include a 1000 club concert on Sunday, Darkness at Noon at the high school auditorium, a Garden club gathering at the YWCA, an AAUW International Relations meeting at the city library, a Muscatine Club benefit concert, Young Republicans organization at the YWCA, Toastmasters at the Hotel Muscatine, and a Trinity Episcopal men’s meeting.
Betty Hutton plays Annie Oakley in a musical with 10 Irving Berlin tunes at the A Muse U theater. Howard Keel makes his film debut alongside Louis Calhern J Carrol Naish Edward Arnold and others in a Buffalo Bill rodeo tale featuring songs like Doin What Comes Naturally and You Can t Get a Man With a Gun.
James Barton and Jane Wy man star in Here Comes the Groom a Bing Crosby musical opening Wednesday at Hilltop Drive-in. Crosby headlines with crooning and light plot while Alexis Smith Franchot Tone also appear and Frank Capra directs this Hollywood comedy effort.
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