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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1959
Page
9
Hollywood gossip column notes the Fire Department moves amid plans for the Drunkard stage run closing earlier than planned. It mentions Peck, Hepburn Perkins, Fred Astaire, Barrie Chase, James Darren, Josh Logan, and Billie Bucke in a flurry of entertainment industry updates and production shifts.
Producer Dean Elmo announced the play A View From The Bridge will close at La Shell Theater located at 5384 Long Beach Blvd in Long Beach on August 22. The closure marks the end of the current run.
Preston Sturges, famed Hollywood producer, writer, and director, died in New York at Hotel Algonquin aged near 61. Born in Chicago, he wrote Broadway hit Strictly Dishonorable later adapted to film and won an Academy Award for The Great McGinty. He faced Hollywood ups and downs before his late career, with colleagues and wife connections noted.
A mid Pacific hurricane named Doi altered course twice today near Hawaii. Initially expected to strike near Honolulu on Oahu, it rerouted toward Kauai, triggering alerts as forecasters revised the path and warned of possible impacts.
British film star Sir Alec Guinness will enter a London hospital next week for a leg operation to correct varicose veins. He will be accompanied by his wife and expects a short convalescence with a possible return to filming within weeks.
Fairfield California police report states a 3-year-old boy accidentally fired a pistol killing his mother Jeanie Filler 27 wife of Lt. Robert E. Filler of Travis Air Force Base. The couple with two newborn twins had traveled to Lake Berryessa in Napa County where they used a 22 automatic for target practice. On the return trip the father removed the clip and a round remained in the chamber. The shot struck Mrs. Filler in the back of the head as the father reached for the gun. Mrs. Filler died en route to the air base hospital. Lt. Filler said he was treating his wife for shock at the base hospital. The children were cared for by neighbors in Vacaville.
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