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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
8
Mrs. Xcellie Wylie Helden Wongaridee, mother of Williat W. Holden, longtime Austin figure, died at her daughter’s home in Dallas. Widow of Wielyr A. P. Wouldridge, she married in 1917 and outlived by several years her first husband Thomas Holden. Surviving are two other sons Thomas S. Holden of Darien, Oliver Holden of the New York Times, and J. S. Welle, a brother in Oklahoma. grandchildren also listed. Funeral services planned for Friday in Dallas.
Hollywood gossip notes Joan Bennett plans to return to film after health improvement. She denies retirement and addresses contract twists with Merle Oberon Olivia de Havilland and others while noting she will shoot if able. Rumors swirl about Rickenbacker project timing and studio changes as industry figures shuffle plans.
Betty Hutton and Eddie Brackett headline The Miracle of Morgan's Creek as the evening's main attraction at the Texas venue. The comedy features a star-studded cast including Adolphe Menjou Martha Scott Pola Negri and Dennis Duceate in a light hearted farce with matrimonial complications and a second feature titled Fiddle Diddle with an ensemble cast.
Careless smokers and campers start 30 percent of forest fires, according to the U S forest service.
Death announced in New York for Nelo Sioemaker Hesse a radio manager and original inventor linked to Colonel Stoupnagie and broadcasting innovations.
New York dispatch says German authorities tightened rationing in occupied France. Paris fleas and a famous flower market are cited as starving, with NBC’s Madrid correspondent noting owners used “artists” to desert the horrors of malnutrition and slow death.
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