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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1950
Page
8
Local notes report Mrs. Frank Stransky recovering from April 20 auto crash injuries including a badly cut knee and bruises. The column records community visits, church events, and seasonal work as residents share sympathies and well wishes.
Mrs. Nina Flynn of near Kalona purchases 40 acres adjoining her farm from the Fred Mouser estate. The report lists local visits, arrivals, and community notes including hospital stays and students named in local circles.
Dell, Valentine Perkins and Doris Lloyd star in a Napoleonic War era sea epic that required about 40 stunt men. Among the cast are Richard Talmadge, Dave Sharp, Rube Schaffer, Sailor Vincent, Paul Stader, Harry Raven, Wally West and Red Morgan, a former Redskins halfback.
Maureen O Hara rehearsed a gypsy dance Seylaba on the Baxzad Technicolor spectacle at Universal International on the State Theatre lot. She danced in deeply sanded sand eight hours daily with an osteopath by standby as Vincent Price observes.
Paul Christian co-stars with Miss O’Hara in a film directed by Charles Lamont for producer Robert Arthur, highlighting a notable professional pairing in mid-century cinema.
Technical Sergeant Whip Wilson, famed World War II cowboy star, served in Guadalcanal Bougainville and Tarawa campaigns and was bayonetted in the Tarawa action. He now appears on screen as star of Monogram's Gunslingers with Andy Clyde and Reno Browne leading the cast.
The Lexington Community group held its final session of the school year in the school house on Friday evening. Four tables of progressive rock provided entertainment. Hostesses were Mrs. Morton Emde and Mrs. Gayle Cupp, substituting for Mrs. Wayne Norman who was called to Idaho Falls by her mother in Idaho, Mrs. Sherd Wilson's passing.
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