Bright Lights and Studio News Run in Phoenix This Weekend
The section notes Easter Sunrise crowds at Grand Canyon services and Eddie Acuff returning to films in Warner Brothers Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Arizona cowboys pursue Virginia Mayo ranch activities, while the O’Sheas plan a commercial farm near Tucson. Paramount picks Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett as an epic about the Apache Wars with filming likely in Arizona. Phoenix hosts big-name bands at Shrine Auditorium and dance pavilion openings on McDowell Road with several orchestras booked. Playwright John McGreevey’s And Some Must Wait premieres in Toledo, with a royalty offer after prior contest placement. BRIGHT LIGHTS: Charlie Aaron Pat Carroll held over. Civic Playhouse seeks a new home and a dramatic school with a children’s theater. HERE’N THERE lists Agnes Moorehead Charles Laughton Charles Boyer Sir Cedric Hardwicke under one roof.
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Grand Canyon
Eddie Acuff
Tucson
Warner Brother
Virginia Mayo
Blonde Star
Michael O’shea
Bank and Board
Virginia
O’sheas
Phoenix
Les Brown
Shrine Auditorium
Jerry Gray
East McDowell Road
Graft
Skinnay Ennis
John McGreevey
Toledo
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KTAR
Repertory Theater
Nora
Charlie Aaron
Pat Carroll
Civic Playhouse
Agnes Moorehead
Charles Laughton
Charles Boyer
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
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KPHO
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Sager Club
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Howard Barlow
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Telehone Hour
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Those Family Money Matters
Reader's Digest promotes April issue with tips on wills deeds bank accounts and insurance policies. It urges readers to check policies agents and savings and to review social security status for financial security. The ad promises 43 condensed articles on lasting interests.
Varicose Veins and Circulation Clinic Ad
Ambulatory treatment offer by Dr. A C Johnson for varicose veins phlebitis hardening arteries and Buergers disease includes personal examination with heart nerve and circulation tests on diagnostic instruments. Free booklet and consultation zero charge at 125 W McDowell Rd phone 24159.
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Modern Wisconsin campus teaches snifters and pool amid study
INEZ ROBB visits the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She marvels at campus life where pool halls, bowling alleys, ping pong rooms and card games operate under academic auspices. Students study juvenile delinquency as a course, and Robb reflects on how modern education has changed since her college days.
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University of Wisconsin
Memorial Union
Grand Central
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Papa
Ben Siegel and the ill fated horse and hooch scheme
In a New York story from March 26, Benjamin Siegel a noted criminal figure is linked to a failed attempt to buy a turf champion named Bay View after a Kentucky trip. The tale also recalls Prohibition era hooch schemes involving dumping garbage barges at sea and bribing a barge boss.
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Benjamin Siegel
Bugs
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Kentucky
Ben
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Ol’ Kaintuck
Winchell Bugs
Manhattan
Bay View
City Sanitation
Broadway Sailors and the Counting Machine Fraud
Walter Winchell recounts a Brooklyn scheme by Ben and the Boys using an adding machine to fake counts on a cargo run. When authorities closed in, the barge owner stood firm and was arrested. Joe Adonis rises to notoriety after his mother’s charitable dispersals attract public attention.
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Mr. Barge
Joe Adonis
Brooklyn
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Fred Astaire Shines in Royal Wedding Palms Feature
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star in a polished Palms presentation of Royal Wedding. The film follows a Broadway musical tale set in London with Astaire wooing dancer Sarah Churchill while Jane Powell falls for Peter Lawford. Keenan Wynn provides comic relief in a dual role as press agent and brother.
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Fred Astaire
Hollywood
Jane Powell
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Jane
Peter Lawford
Toscanini Celebrates 84th Birthday Quietly at Home
Arturo Toscanini marked his 84th birthday in a private gathering at his Bronx home with family and close friends, avoiding any public celebration as in prior years. He remains in good health but has canceled remaining NBC Symphony concerts due to a knee injury.
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New York
Arturo Toscanini
Bronx
National Broadcasting Company Symphony
Runyon Film Stars Hope in The Lemon Drop Kid at Paramount
Damon Runyon's The Lemon Drop Kid stars Bob Hope in a Paramount screening. Hope plays a race-track tour guide who always carries lemon drops and offers risky advice to a tough crowd. Martyn Maxwell shines as his clever female lead, with Runyon regulars Oxford Charlie Professor Murdoch High Society Hogan and Second Card Tony in supporting roles.
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Damon Runyon
Paramount Theater
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Martyn Maxwell
Runyon
Oxford
Charlie
Professor Murdoch
High Society
Hogan
Tony
Bird of Paradise at Fox Theater
Fox Theater presents Bird of Paradise, a Technicolor tropical escapist film featuring Jeff Chandler Debra Paget and Louis Jourdan. The plot is fantastic with lush vegetation natives and erupting volcanoes as a backdrop to the romance and adventure.
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March 7 Horoscope For Stars And Influential Support
The reading for Tuesday March 7 predicts propitious auguries for those who work with concentrated effort. It advises cultivating friendly support from influential people while noting possible plan changes and uneven cooperation. A birthday may bring firm footing through hard work and clever know how. The outlook favors long range goals and substantial returns.
Betty MacDonald Birthday Highlight
Betty MacDonald born March 26, 1908 in Boulder Colorado as Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard was the author of The Egg and I. Daughter of a mining engineer she adopted her present name after a 1942 second marriage and raised two daughters while spending childhood in mining towns and studying at the University of Washington.
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University of Washington
Bohlen Confined by Illness in Paris Talks
State Department counselor Charles E. Bohlen, aide to Dr. Philip Jessup at the four power deputy talks in Paris, is reported ill with a severe cold and confined to bed. The U S embassy confirmed the condition.
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Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
Philip Jessup
United States
Gracie Allen On England Divorce Gamble And Fur Coat Tale
Gracie Allen cites a dispatch from London noting that about 80 percent of England’s 15,000 annual users of free legal aid seek divorces, sparking a wry take on marriage risks. A joke follows about a wife who starves her husband to fund a fur coat only to miss him at her funeral.
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London
England
Square Dance Events and Classes Listed
A schedule of square dance events and classes across multiple venues. Instructors include Johnny Melton Joe Boykin and Bob Walters with locations at West Washington Street North Seventh Street Alma School Mesa Madison School Wayside Hall Sunnyslope and other venues. The listings cover beginners intermediate and round dance sessions throughout the week.
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Johnny Melton
North Seventh Street
Joe Boykin
Alma School
Mesa
Callers Club Glass
Isaac School
Jim Jones
Madison School
Wayside Hall
Sunnyslope
Bob Walters
West Virginians
Edison School
Isaac
Temple Beth Israel
St. Mary’s
St. Mary’s Social Hall
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