Broadway Star Ethel Shutta Plans Return to TV and Radio
New York singer Ethel Shutta, famed for Ziegfeld Follies revues, announces a comeback on television and radio after wartime retirement. She recalls favorite numbers, explains why lighter tunes drew her best applause, and notes a past double-booking with the Cosmopolitan Club required police escort and a mobile dressing room.
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DeHavilland Delivers 9-Pound Son At Good Samaritan
Hollywood report confirms Olivia DeHavilland, wife of Marcus Goodrich, gave birth by Caesarean at Good Samaritan Hospital. The 9-pound boy, first child for DeHavilland, will be named after Benjamin Griggs Goodrich. Mother and baby are reported well.
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Welcome Paris Tourists Stir Up The City Of Light
A seasoned correspondent describes Paris amid a tourist flood of Americans English Swiss Danes and Middle Eastern visitors. He recounts customs hassles and a vivid scene at Orly Piercing anecdotes about a turbaned sheik and his dramatic Paris debut at the Folies Bergere.
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New York Gossip Flows Across Stage and Screen Realms
A bustling roundup of New York and international entertainment rumors centers on Garbo and Valentina amid decouplings and alliances, plus Gable, Stanley, and Peggy Ann Garner plus E. Collins. The item also notes UN corridors, theater district buzz, stock outlooks, and dating news from Bevin to Churchill, with fashion and society links throughout.
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Walter Winchell reveals lavish parties and society buzz
Gossip column highlights include Carol Bruce as aunt with Marilyn and a newborn in Baltimore, Chicago advance sale for Kiss Me Kate at 325000, counterfeit 20s used after the Noronic tragedy, Miriam Hopkins’s new beau Michael Ellis, and various Hollywood socialites, elopements, divorces, and engagements. Also notes hotel crowds, radio, and theatre mentions amid an array of high society vignettes.
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Gene Williams
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Group Reports $10,000 In Theater Drive
Phoenix Little Theater reports $10,000 in pledges toward a $70,000 bond drive to fund a proposed new theater building at Central Avenue and McDowell Road as part of the Civic Center. The building is slated to cost about $100,000 with $50,000 allocated by the Civic Center Association, contingent on the group raising an equal amount. The 1949-50 season opens October 6 with Charlie's Aunt, directed by Nora McGreevey, as rehearsals proceed.
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Ten worst dressed men on screen listed by secretaries
Hollywood reporters note secretaries from major studios issued a list naming the ten worst dressed male film stars. Howard Duff MacDonald Carey Frank Sinatra Robert Cummings Vic Mature Adolphe Menjou Bing Crosby Van Heflin Jimmy Stewart Rudy Vallee are cited with quips about their attire and style.
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Gracie Allen on Dollar Devaluation and Travel Costs
Gracie Allen jokes about the British pound drop and its impact on prices in London and the United States. She notes hotel rates and meat prices changing with the devaluation, with George and Jack Benny reacting in comic terms. The quip ends with Gracie saying her husband must give her a dollar now worth more in their home economy.
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Jack Benny
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Jack
Limehouse
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Sam Wood Will Demands Loyalty Oath For Heirs
Hollywood reports the late anti Communist director Sam Wood left an estate valued between 100 000 and 500 000 with his widow Clara and two daughters Actress K Stevens and Mrs Jeane Wood Heistand named as beneficiaries. He required all non spousal beneficiaries to file affidavits swearing they are not members of the Communist Party or any subversive organization. The widow would receive 2000 monthly until death then the trust would pass to the daughters.
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U.S
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Barbara Lawrence Wins Final Divorce Decree
Hollywood reports Screen Actress Barbara Lawrence aged 19 obtained a final divorce decree in Superior Court. She had complained husband actor John Fontaine, 25, came home late and shamed her by telling friends she did not give him enough spending money. They wed June 28, 1947 and she had July 23, 1948 interlocutory decree.
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John Fontaine
Birthday tribute to Wallace Kirkman Harrison
Wallace Kirkman Harrison born September 28, 1895 in Worcester Massachusetts son of a foundry superintendent rose to director of planning for the United Nations. He helped shape Rockefeller Center and New York World's Fair sphere and skyline. He quit school at 14 to work, studied with McKim Mead and White, trained at night, served in World War I, studied in Paris, taught at Columbia by 1926, and formed notable partnerships in architecture from 1927 onward.
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Expect the Unexpected Daily Forecast for Thursday
For Thursday September 29 readers are warned of clattering crashes and dramatic upheaval. The text foresees broken bonds, misunderstandings, disasters, and sudden changes threatening plans and structures, urging preparedness and calm as the upheavals pass. A birthday person may face an unstable life with frequent plan disruptions and relocations.
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