Movie Tricks Prove To Be Old Stuff
Hollywood recounts Fred Jackman a pioneering cinematographer who says trick photography from 1915 to 1930s is now old hat. Reissues of Keystone Kops stunts and reverse action scenes illustrate early film magic and the methods used to cheat speed and gravity for comic effect.
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Mack Sennett
Eagle-Lion Studio
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American Society of Cinematographers
Los Angeles
War Hero Audie Murphy Seeks Retreat From Hollywood Turmoil
Audie Murphy and Wanda Hendrix report strain from Hollywood attention eight months into marriage. Murphy laments gossip and constant film schedules, suggesting moving to Texas might ease tensions. Hendrix says she intends to stay married, while acknowledging public scrutiny and time apart as the main issues.
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Hedy Lamarr Lunch Echoes in Private Chat and Gossip
A flirtatious exchange recounts columnist Toby Deans meeting Hedy Lamarr for lunch at a hotel. The piece notes flirtatious behavior, mutual teasing about love and marriage, a photo of Lamarr’s daughter, and a tangent about Ingrid Bergman and Dr. Peter Lindstrom.
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Ingrid
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Canada
O. K
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Toby Deans
Jackson Beck
American Medical Society
Ginger Rogers Divorces Jack Briggs Over Snoring Cruelty
Hollywood star Ginger Rogers obtained a divorce from actor Jack Briggs on grounds of cruelty and neglect. Rogers testified he failed to come home for their sixth anniversary dinner and would sleep in front of guests, with corroboration from her mother Mrs. Lela Rogers noting other cruel conduct and nightly snoring.
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Ginger Rogers
Jack Briggs
Briggs
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How To Play Canasta Lesson No 3 Freezing the Pack
This lesson outlines freezing the pack in Canasta. It explains turning up stock cards until a non wild card appears, sliding a wild card under the discard pile to show freezing, and rules for taking the pack when frozen or not. Tomorrow: Scoring the game.
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Canasta
Milton Berle Praises Insurance Salesmen Gag
Comedian Milton Berle jokes that top salesmen are insurance agents and praises his own broker who once urged canceling an annuity for an accident policy. He warns about shady small companies and recalls a policy that cancelled after a fall, contrasting with a peculiar life policy tale.
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Maurice Rocco
Slowinski Brother Marries Brzozowski Sister in Fourth Match
John Slowinski of Jackson Michigan wed Margaret Brzozowski of Grand Rapids at St Adalbert's. The match marks the fourth Slowinski brother to marry a Brzozowski sister, leaving the Brzozowskis with no daughters remaining in the family.
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Mich
Slowinski
Brzozowski
John Slowinski
Jackson
Margaret Brzozowski
St Adalbert’s Church
Brzozowskis
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