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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1940
Page
43
Disney presents Pinocchio as Walt Disney’s ambitious follow up to Snow White. The Majestic theater shows the full length feature on Saturday March 30 in multiplane color with six new songs. The puppet tale blends fantasy with reality and features a lovable cast including the Blue Fairy.
A birth entry misclassified William Clark Gable as a female child in Cadiz Ohio. The probate church record was corrected and the baby born to Mr and Mrs William Gable on Charleston Street Cadiz. The Cadiz Country Doctor Dr J B Camp and Bing Crosby commented on the mix up with humor.
A compact list of songs and artists from Victor and Decca catalogs. Includes "LIMEROUSE BLUES" by Larry Clinton, "WASHINGTON AND LEE SWING" by Hal Kemp, "MOMENTS IN THE MOON LIGHT" by Tommy Dorsey, and many more vocalists and titles across multiple labels with tangential notes on performers like Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, and Ray Noble.
A 130 pound silver ore piece, valued around 100000 dollars, was reportedly unearthed in Washington D C under the Washington Monument. The ore dates from 1861 and was brought by Dr William M Stewart as a gift from Virginia City.
Laurence Olivier introduces a glarnt clock machine wheel to cue a phonographic record for his Snow White production. The record Belgh Ho from Snow White and the Seven Darts is noted as a fit for turning on the Pride and Prejudice stage, Olivier says.
Claude Allister veteran British actor will play Sir Avier Sullivan of the Guvert and Sullivan combination in Lillian Russell. Twentieth Century box is filming with Alice Faye Don Ameche and Henry Fonda in the starring roles. Nigel Bruce is W. Gilbert, the same character he played on Broadway last season in Knights of Song. Irving Gummings directs the film with William Anthony McQuire author of The Great Ziegfeld scripting, Gene Markey is the producer.
A garbled report notes Virginia City and Warner Bros. involvement with an expected population rise to about twice the state level over the March weekend. Details and entities are unclear in the text.
Cedric London district agent of the Biological Survey outlined Open and Wildlife Week activities. Hundreds of organizations will host meetings to spotlight wildlife conservation. open houses will welcome public inspection of two Texas refuges and a Bailey county tract as conservation efforts expand nationwide.
Hollywood chatter from Maryls in California describes Rita Lowe hosting a Margurite Clark reunion and birthdays for Lorena and Danny. Rumors swirl about Cary Grant and Paylus Brooke reconciling and Sonja Henie’s public image improving after a string of dinners.
Merrill Pye explains how eye pleasing sets enhance song in MGM’s Broadway Melody of 15940. He cites the Begin the Rogue number among the lavish finales with three settings including a sky scene lit by auto bulbs and a beach tableau with mirror pool as Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell perform.
Berol Flynn and Henry Daniell staged an eight hour duel for The Sea Hawk, with cameras on location, as wildlife scenes drew attention to preserving species. State wardens aided by bureau agents boosted prosecutions of game-law violators, securing 2444 convictions in courts.
In Burpests Hungary the death of Ganversane a Lipplzau stallion from Vienna’s Spanish Riding Academy is noted as a parliawliw interest. The horse’s lineage links to Conver Sao ab present who acts in Florian for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The coronation ritual used a white horse and the Conver Sao family provided the steed for the last Hungarian king, with 150 000 spectators at Ruhenry’s coronation in 1916. Actress Sarah Edwards is cast in Price Smith’s Spots Before Your Eyes.
The Sara security administration requests 19 200 feet of aerial footage along Route 66 from Oklahoma to California to document Dust Bowl refugees. Tom Collins leads the US Inventory Workers for the FSA and plans to use the footage in Washington to persuade congress, tying it to Darcy P Zawuck's Grapes of Wrath project.
Sidney R Kent Henan Webber and Sidney Towel with Joseph ML Suhenck and Darry F Zanuck announced the decision to road show The Divebird a Teetinicolen Maurice Maeterlinck classic with first showing in New York Boston Detroit and San Francisco opening January 15. The Twentieth Century Fox cast includes Shirley Temple Spiny Byington Nigel Beave Gal Souder Kane Gohildason Ette Callus Helen Ericson and Johnny Russell directed by Walter Lang.
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