Hollywood Notes and Movie Updates Across The Industry
On stage Christina Crawford, 18, will apprentice at Westport Playhouse this summer. Eduard Robinson Jr. will proofread his jail term memoir My Father My Son due for September. Danny Thomas and Marjorie Lord honeymoon at The Sands Las Vegas while his fall show films on location there starting July. Joanne Dru follows Joe Kirkwood Jr. Bob Hope’s Paris Holiday crew shot in Louvre gardens. Jeff Morrow likens Copper Sky to The African Queen and Sierra Madre. Margaret O'Brien will earn 2500 dollars weekly for Maggie on ABC TV. Grace Kelly reportedly unhappy over a forthcoming biography. Yul Brynner has 30 costume changes in The Brothers Karamazov, more than Maria Schell. Marilyn Monroe’s dream role cited. Carroll Baker faced contract hurdles. Glen Ford honored at Camp Pendleton Navy relief show. Jeff Donnell reunites with Aldo Ray at a Hollywood club. George Gobel and Eddie Fisher plan a fall TV hour. Pat Boone comments on Elvis Presley as a top vocalist. Rin Tin Tin Adventures sell in over a dozen foreign markets unchanged by language.
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Hollywood
Ereskine Johnson
AEA
NEA
Juar Crawford
Christina
Mama
Westport Playhouse
Eduard G. Robinson Jr
Danny Thomas
Marjorie Lord
Sands Hotel
Las Vegas
Danny
Joanne Dru
Joe Kirkwood Jr
Bob Hope
Paris
Louvre
Bob
Boston
Philadelphia
Seattle
Keokuk
Iowa
Panama‘ Canal Zone
Jeff Morrow
Sierra Madre
New Mexico
Margaret O'Brien
Maggie
Grace Kelly
Clark Gable
Yul Brynner
Karamazov
Maria Schell
Grushenko
Marilyn Monroe
Carroll
Baby Doll
George
Eddie Fisher
NBC
Leonardo da Vinci to be laid down as Andrea Doria successor
In Genoa Italy on June 17 the keel of the Leonardo da Vinci will be laid at the Sestri Ponente Ansaldo yard. Designers promise the ship will be the safest liner yet with modern navigation devices. Length 761 feet displacement 432000 tons across 92 feet wide and 11 decks.
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Andrea Doria
Genoa
Italy
Itaty
Nan Luc
Leonardo da Vinci
Sestri Ponente Ansaldo
Pennsy Freight Cars Derail Near Chambersburg
Twenty eight cars of a 150 car Pennsylvania Railroad freight derailed near Chambersburg Pennsylvania on June 17. Several tankers carrying acid overturned and blocked double track about a half mile. No injuries reported. Wreck crews from Enola and Hagerstown Md. began clearing the area and traffic on the Cumberland Valley branch will reroute between Shippensburg and Hagerstown via the Western Maryland Railway Co. The cause remains unknown.
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Chambersburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Enola
Hagers
Cumberland Valley
Shippensburg
Hagersjtown
Western Maryland Railway Co
Pinball Machines Taxed as Gambling Devices by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled pinball machines paying cash, premiums or tokens are gambling devices subject to federal tax. Justice Black sat as author with Justice Douglas dissenting. The decision involved Walter Korpan fined $750 for unpaid tax on coin operated gaming devices at Korpan's Landing, Fox Lake.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Black
Douglas
Walter Korpan
Court News Announces Several Marriage Licenses in Frederick Area
The court column lists marriage licenses for Maurice D. Ashbury and Barbara H. Sibert of Falls Church and Vienna pairs, Frederick Calhoun with Doriston Benjamin, James Wood with Dale Knill, plus a series of property deeds and transfers in Frederick County. A summer day camp program sponsored by the U S Circuit Association for Retarded Children will be held July 1 to 15 in Westminster with transport, swimming, and free access for eligible children.
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Joseph McCrer Herbert
Falls Church
Patricia Nora ‘Trundle
Vienna
Frederick Charles Calhoun
Brunswick
Doriston Benjamin
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
James A. Wood
Clarksville
Ark
Dale A. Knill
Frederick
Alma M. Hays
Annie May Coran
Lewis ‘J. Talbert
Virgie May Thomas
Lewis J. Talbert
William J. Wilhide
Palvin L. Stottienser
Mary Ft. Pryor
Gil Pryor
Harvey
Hoffman
Vivian E. Hatcher
Elizabeth S. Kehne
Natalie L. Parton Et al
Board ‘of Education
Frederick County
Korpan
Carroll County
U.S. Circuit‘Association For
Mastadptementary School
Green and
Center Streets
Westminster
Association
Lita Multisix
Sykesville
Wagner Miller
New Windsor
Red Cross
Lowing
Rick Canavan
James H. Langdon
Mildred Hirsh
Fern Smith
William Harris
Glenn Matthias
H. S Albright
Lula Mullinix
Roger Burdette
Hartes Peddicord
Patrick Canavans
James R. Langdon
Two Drownings Hail Potomac River Tragedies
Two drownings occur in the Potomac area within days as two men from Virginia and Maryland residents perish in swift water near Great Falls and River Bend. Rescue efforts fail as authorities report swift currents and missing bodies. A separate suicide case near Bethesda ends fatally for 23 year old Nike.
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Boxy
Virginia
Potomac River
Montgomery County
John Richard Rice
Falls Crown Va Ince
First Lady Enters Walter Reed Hospital
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower checked into Walter Reed Army Hospital for a second health checkup within four months. The White House called the visit routine and said she is not ill, with press secretary James Hagerty noting she will stay several days.
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Washington
Mamie Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
White House
Mest
James C. Hagty
Eisenhower
Walter Reed
Tme
Hagerty
Howard M. Snayder
Justice Dept appeals ruling on pinball machines
The Justice Department argues a court decision excluding pin ball machines from slot machine categorization would reduce federal revenue by about 3.3 million dollars annually.
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Kor- Pan
Congress
Justice Department
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Pat Boone
Elvis Presley
Pat
Taneytown
Aldo Ray
Damascus
Richard Widmark
Montezuma
Jeff Chandler
Pennsy
Court News
Maurice D. Ashbury
Barbara H. Sibert
Wt A
Gilmore R. Flauow Jr
Housing Authority of
Frederick City
Walter D. Main
Mamie M
Dixon
pFey
Potomac
River Bend
Mar Smith
Lester Miller
Montgomery County Police
Young Rice
Great Falls
Eugene K. Thomas
Bluemont
George Bodmer
Ming
Thomas
Billy Curtis
Boetie
Seneca
Aethesda
Poparent de Nike
Bethesda
Frank J. Broschart
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
United States
Walter Reed Hospital
Acates
Barney Ross
Henry Fonda
Raddock
Leswe
Lynnton
Dna Ferber Vue
Lizabeth Taylor
Rock Hudson
James Dean
Stade Ant Weesentre
Eee i Garroll Wakter
Jane Withers
Chill Wills
Mercedes
Cambridge
Sal Mineg
Tonite
Barbara Lawrence
OE Dakota
Catone Golde
Eleanor Day
W. Montge Street
Chicazo 3
Lewistown Citizens Association, Inc
Miller's Woods
N. E
Lewistown
Dub Howington
The
Tennessee Haymakers
Tiney Jenkens
Barclay
Mommy
Adolph’s
Adolphie
Adolph
WEG
Lanolin
Helene Curtis
Giorseum
Seetoeen
Aaieet
Shietpes
Sey At
Adolph's Beauty Salon
Frederick Shopping Center
MR. Clarence Dean
Washington, D. C
Sam Miller
Market ST
State Theatre
Thurmont, Md
Rory Calhoun
Barbara Rush
Hong Kong
Hess
Burgess Meredith
Leh
Leta
Mars Opticians
West Second ST
Bausch & Lamb
Dee GJ
Company Pe Ture
Admiral Food Freezer
South Market Street
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