World Fair to Display Cinerama in Portable Theater
At the Brussels World’s Fair visitors can see Cinerama on a special portable screen. Nicolas Ressini, head of Overseas Cinerama Distribution, described a packaged theater costing 300000 dollars seating 1200 people. It can be erected in three weeks and dismantled in 10 days and will be shipped by rail to another European city after the fair ends in October.
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Tragedies Mark Lana Turner's Personal Life in 1920s
Hollywood figure Lana Turner saw fame shadowed by tragedy and domestic strife. The piece recalls Johnny Stompanato’s death at her home and notes her father John Turner was killed by robbers in San Francisco in 1930 when she was ten.
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Lana Turner and family figures in tragedy and marriages
Lana Turner, once a Hollywood icon nicknamed the sweat bee, died at 75 after a life of marriages and a high profile sonorous career. The report details her five marriages, a daughter Cheryl age 14 facing murder suspicions in the Stompanato case, and a history of sensational relationships.
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Absence of Liz Delays Film Shoot
The Cats on a Hot Tin Roof production halted after filming all scenes without star Elizabeth Taylor who remains secluded after husband Mike Todd’s death. Filming to resume April 13 if Taylor is ready.
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Will Rogers Jr Visits Alaska on Anchorage Run
Will Rogers Jr spends two hours in Fairbanks en route to Point Barrow, site of his father’s death in an air crash. The humorist’s son has toured Anchorage in a theater production of Ah Wilderness, marking his first Alaska visit.
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Pat Boone and wife flee London airport via back exit
Police grappled with teenage girls as Pat Boone and his wife Shirley slipped out a back entrance of the customs hall after arriving from New York. Crowds shouted requests for the singer, who is 23, and the scene occurred Friday night at London Airport.
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Campaign Begun for Handy Statue in Memphis
MEMPHIS Tenn May or Edmund Orgill opened a nationwide drive to fund a statue for blues composer W. C. Handy with a $500 contribution. He met with white and Negro leaders to launch the campaign and a committee was named to select a statue site, with Handy Park on Beale Street viewed as the likely location. Handy, known as the father of the blues, died in New York last week.
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Good Movies Still Draw Well Says Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn asserts that despite a broader recession and readjustment in the industry the motion picture business will emerge healthier and stronger. He cites television and foreign films as challengers from the postwar era and notes independent producers driving record grosses for top pictures.
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Daredevil Gene Mendez High Wire Debut Amazes Crowd
Gene Mendez a 24 year old high wire performer from Brooklyn made a dangerous debut at Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus in Madison Square Garden. He walked a cable between two boxes on a 64 foot high platform, slipped, then lunged and pulled himself up as fall danger loomed. He suffered a fractured leg and wrist and is listed in satisfactory condition at St. Clare's Hospital. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brooklyn since age six, Mendez had previously toured with smaller circuses. Previously applauded by seasoned circus pros, he performed as part of the circus opening night.
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