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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1966
Page
5
Ice Follies 67 opened with a lavish international themed program at Longla Viking voyage Beach Arena drawing 3,700 of 11,000 seats. Colorful costumes and large production numbers impressed but promos fear crowds may not grow enough for the seven day run.
Earl Wilson reports on El Morocco nights where wealth and excess dominate. Names of stars and wealthy patrons, outfits costing hundreds of thousands, and a tropical display of palm trees frame a luxury scene as fashion, music, and celebrity clash with poverty rhetoric.
Stamford Connecticut reports the death of Gus Edson, creator of the comic strips The Gumps and Dondi. The Cincinnati native suffered a heart attack Monday night at his Stamford home and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Edson began as a freelance cartoonist in 1920 and later became a sports illustrator for the New York Evening Graphic in 1925 before focusing on comic strips.
Theatre lampers list start times for features in Long Beach venues. The garbled text shows multiple shows with times such as 5:31 and 3:57 among others, plus scattered venue and code fragments. Readable elements mention names and numbers, but many portions are indecipherable.
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