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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1959
Page
6
Hollywood veteran Hal Roach defends the Our Gang series as 178 children passed through the program. He notes some faced trouble or bad luck while most became happy, respected citizens, disputing claims of a list of ill fates.
New York actress Portland Hoffa widow of Fred Allen wed advertising executive Joseph Rives in a Monday ceremony. He 56, she 54. Allen died in 1956, Rives first wife Gertude Hoffman also died that year.
Roach recalled founding the series in 1821 and contrasted actors in makeup with children making toy plays. He described watching kids argue over wood from a lumber yard for 15 minutes, inspiring a series focused on child mentality.
Emily C Boet Thicher 34 won a divorce in Los Angeles from Oscar Boetti chee Jr a movie director after he testified he wished to live like a bachelor.
A London model, Pat Williams, 27, testified in a Superior Court deposition in a Preminger divorce suit. She said she met Otto Preminger in 1956 and stayed at his London hotel. she claimed the affair aimed at a movie role. Preminger’s attorney called co defendant Michael Rennie an innocent party in the bickering.
Vienna hospital reports the death of conductor Charles Adler aged 69 after a career in Europe and the United States. London born, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich and led orchestras in Duesseldorf Hamburg and Berlin before touring Russia and Hungary as a guest conductor.
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