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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1949
Page
23
Hollywood gossip notes Katharine Hepburn may film her stage success As You Like It after returning to Hollywood. She hopes Spencer Tracy reads the Seven Ages of Man aloud on screen.
Hollywood reports actress Gloria Grahame will file for divorce from director Nick Ray as soon as papers are ready. The couple, who met while under contract to RKO and wed June 1 1948, acted together in In a Lonely Place. Grahame's first husband was actor Stanley Clements.
Film producer Leon Schlesinger creator of Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig cartoons died yesterday at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital at age 65 after two months of confinement. He began as an usher then press agent and film salesman before producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies in 1930. His innovations included the cartoon travelogue and first use of human characters. He retired in 1944 and sold his characters to Warner Brothers.
Muriel Rukeyser author of The Life of Poetry also wrote about ten books including U S 1 and Willard Gibbs biography. Raised in New York City she won an Academy of Arts and Letters award and a Guggenheim fellowship. She has lectured taught edited and conducted radio programs. She finished the new book at her home in San Francisco.
The forecast urges restraint on Tuesday to avoid dangerous overreactions and reckless generosity. Logically detached decisions win, though birthday individuals may display ardent energy and impulsive zeal leading to potential losses.
Film star Shirley Temple and John Agar, her estranged husband, split again after a brief Christmas reunion for their baby Linda Susan. Agar visited the former home with gifts but refused to discuss the marriage, while Shirley kept silent, saying there was no chance of reconciliation.
A dense list of square dance classes and clubs across several venues led by instructors Johnny Melton Joe Boykin Frank Bradford and others. Classes meet at Garfield Emerson Madison Knights of Columbus and Tempe and Willow venues with times from 8 p m to 9 p m and events including Chicks and Hicks and Boots and Calico.
William Beery aged 70, elder brother of Wallace and Noah Beery, died at his Beverly Hills home. He helped start his brothers in show business, was a Keystone Kop in Mack Sennet comedies, left film in 1917 for the oil industry, and later became Wallace Beerys personal manager. Survived by wife Lottie and two children.
Comedian Jack Benny’s 15 year old daughter Joan appeared on his radio show yesterday as a Girl Scout selling cookies. Benny quipped that she was cute and joked about her father dressing her better.
Rita Hayworth Ingrid Bergman Robert Mitchum and Shirley Temple head the Hollywood year 1949 as industry moods shift toward stability. Dank fears of television linger while fans back stronger pictures and rising stars. Awards picks include All the Kings Men and The Bicycle Thief with notable comebacks, music, and TV moments mentioned.
A daily cinema timetable lists showings across multiple theaters including CINEMA PARK Red Hot and Blue and ORPHEUM The Great Lover. Notable titles include Pride of the Yankees, Africa Screams, Duck Soup, The Heiress, and The Lady Takes a Sailor with varied afternoon and evening start times.
A new FBI office will open tomorrow in Albuquerque New Mexico to handle investigations across New Mexico previously directed from the El Paso division. El Paso continues to oversee West Texas counties now assigned to El Paso. The American Municipal Association surveyed 265 localities and found city attorney pay ranges from 600 to 17500 dollars annually.
Parkway screens Massacre River with Guy Madison and Chandler shows Down Dakota Way with Roy Rogers and Outcasts of the Trail back to back for matinee and evening shows at the Valley Theatre.
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