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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1950
Page
14
A daytime and evening radio lineup lists program blocks and host names from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Programs include farm and ranch content, music, safety features, children’s segments, news from CBS, theatre shows, and policial themed dramas with stars like Gene Autry and Philip Marlowe.
In New York City gossip and Broadway notes, Wendy Barrie’s groom files in Florida, Paulette Goddard awaits Burgess Meredith’s return to serve papers, and Henry Fonda’s division faced muddled talk. Barbara Tufts says coast splituation talk is bunk while N W Elson becomes Embassy Newsreel president. Holiday bonuses surprise Waldorf staff under Hilton ownership. Inga Andersen reportedly disappeared after Bellevue visit. Spitalny’s Las Vegas engagement takes years to secure. Rita Hayworth rumored as top box office, and a wife accused of murder amid Christmas Eve drama. Insiders discuss a New York story about a wife who killed her husband, motives, and evidence. News notes reference television, theatre, and music industry figures amid vibrant urban chatter.
A packed column surveys radio stars and clubs from Atlantic City to New York. Walter Winchell, Mindy Carson, Vera Lynn, and John Laurenz appear alongside club scenes at the Copa, Havana Madrid, and the Beachcomber. The piece riffs on shows, rumors, and media transitions with a playful, brisk tone.
Joseph Bracken Lee born January 7 1899 in Price Utah to pioneer Mormon ancestry. He rose as insurance and real estate executive before becoming governor. He previously served 12 years as mayor of Price where a deal let the town buy and sell electricity, cut rates, eliminated property taxes, financed a civic auditorium and modernized the water system.
Beaufort B. Stallcup, pioneer Arizona businessman and Globe veteran, died in Los Angeles at 76 after three years of ill health. Funeral services are set for Monday in the Coast city with burial at Inglewood Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Ella, son Dr. Leonard B. Stallcup in Los Angeles, another son Dr. L. B. Stallcup, and daughter Mrs. Lynn Wightman of Beverly Hills.
The Balsz PTA executive board meets at 2 p m Monday in the school cafeteria to plan a Fathers Night at 8 p m Thursday in the auditorium with a covered dish dinner. Garfield, Adams, Madison and Alhambra Westwood associations schedule meetings and programs this week, featuring speakers, plays, radio digests, and parent-hosted events.
Radio listings note a 1:30 p m Monday to Friday slot on KOY for the March of Dimes riddle program Luncheon in Phoenix with a 25 word or less answer prompt. The item mentions a mystery object answer and invites postal submission to Riddles Postmaster Phoenix Aziz.
Listings note Manhattan Transfer author John Dos Passos and Ronald Coleman star in new comedy on TEN P. M. MONDAY STAR replacing One Man's Family in the 9:30 p. m. Friday slot starting Jan. 13. KTAR 9:30 p. m. features Soprano Vivian Della Chiesa with the Seattle Symphony under Manuel Rosenthal performing Bel canto arias and classic pieces, plus Mendelssohn and Berlioz.
For Sunday and Monday the forecast warns of swift, dramatic changes in feelings and events. Listings describe unpredictable experiences, intense emotions, and creative pressures that could propel romance, business, and culture into bold, visionary paths.
The 19 story Ambassador Hotel in New York is digging in its basement for water to dodge next summers air conditioning water restrictions. A spokesman said a beer company once had wells on the site before the hotel was built in 1921. Workers are cutting through basement floors to locate the old well casements.
Gracie Allen mocks a sensational rumor about a dentist in the Virgin Islands using a mirror to pull his own upper rear molar. She jokes about media reliability and recalls her sister Bessie who believed a front-page weather claim about a fair that never came.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek will deliver a 15 minute farewell speech on NBC at 10 a.m. Phoenix Time before sailing for Formosa. A Wellesley graduate and frequent U S visitor, she has stayed with Dr H H Kung in the Bronx since November 1948 seeking aid for the Nationalist cause and will depart next week.
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