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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1961
Page
4
Mel Blane known as the voice of Bugs Bunny is back home in Palisades after six weeks in hospital following a January 24 automobile accident. His arrival drew about 150 friends, with two motorcycle policemen escorting the ambulance.
Sunday events in Long Beach highlighted young singers from 58 high schools in Southern California. Judges distributed four awards. standout performers included Mel Arakelian from Montebello and Jackson Phillips from San Pedro High. The audience favored Glare Perry of Polytechnic High School, while Rancho Alamitos High School earned praise for the closing ensemble.
Public service listing shows Long Beach theater schedules with starting times and film titles. Text reflects scrambled OCR details and multiple entries, including times and movie names, for yesterday and upcoming windows.
Santa Monica UPI reports actor Rock Hudson must return April 24 to answer an affidavit from his ex wife Phyllis G Hudson regarding a 50 share stock value claim in a corporation tied to their divorce settlement. Judge Mervyn Aggler indicated the matter could require seven days and ordered principals and witnesses back.
The program lists pieces including overtures and sacred selections featuring conductors and performers. Works include The Caravan and selections by Maren Veaknossian and Herbert with titles such as The Kingdom of Evsneaium and Aliens feuvel. The event highlights a varied band lineup and concert of classical and sacred music.
New York report on Benny Goodman meeting Soviet visitors Konstantin Sakva and Tzrail Neslycy at Basin Street East. They discussed jazz popularity in the Soviet Union and auditions, with Goodman noting he has played in every country except Russia.
Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright wed in Wilton Connecticut with five day licensing waived. They returned to Broadway for Becket and Taste of Honey performances, after a quiet elopement that followed Olivier’s divorce from Vivien Leigh and Plowright’s divorce from Roger Gage. The couple’s informal ceremony drew witnesses including Arnold Weissberger and Dorothy Welford.
Seymour Felix, noted Hollywood choreographer, died Thursday night after a long illness. He was 67 and won an Oscar in 1936 for A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody from The Great Ziegfeld. Burial is planned for Sunday.
London courier reports Lord Harewood, cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, departing for Moscow with a Soviet musical talent for the Edinburgh festival. Hanwood, festival artistic director, notes this as the first British royal family visit to Russia since the 1817 revolution.
John Day Jackson, 92, longtime publisher of the New Register and the New Haven paper, died Friday after retirement illness. He led the papers through decades of local journalism and community service in New Haven, Connecticut.
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