08 Aug 1960
Page 9
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1960
Page
9
Las Vegas business steadies with bargain hunting and modest demand for dinner shows while a few casinos flirt with insolvency. Officials expect convention-driven recovery as big hotels expand facilities. Films and star-studded nights at the Sands attract attention, with satire and gloss amid a turbulent summer.
Hollywood producer Jerry Wald has moved off the 20th Century-Fox studio lot following a quarrel over office space. Wald, head of the independent Artists producing Unit, states he occupied a three-room bungalow on the set and expected expansion to seven rooms, then moved his office to his home and took his belongings.
The Press Telegram lists starting times for features at Long Beach venues. Screenings include They Robbed the Bank, Magdalene, Adventures of ... and portraits in black era films with stars Lana Turner and James Stewart.
Mexican police seized international playboy Francisco Pignatari after a pre-dawn raid on the Princess Ira Yor Furstenburg suite. He and 11 guards were detained as Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe seized custody battles over Cristobal 4 and Alfonso 16. The princess, 16 at the time, criticized her husband while Pignatari claimed no romantic ties and said his arrest stemmed from a dispute over protection and finances.
United Artists will not cut the film Elmer Gantry to fit Ontario theaters. The Ontario censor board asked removal of a six word line, but Burt Lancaster reportedly refused, saying the film is not sensational and cuts would harm its reception. The movie adapts Sinclair Lewis novel about a hypocritical revivalist preacher.
An alleged bad check artist who posed as Lowell Thomas Jr. was arrested in Manhattan while strolling a silver grey poodle. Terrence J. Donley of Wisconsin faces charges of transporting a bad check across state lines and will appear before a Brooklyn US commissioner.
The TUFSDAY municipal band concert at Kicein Park features Sousa and Verdi pieces. Highlights include The Garden Review Concert, intermission selections, and a display in conjunction with an International Beauty Pageant.
A street corner gathering sponsored by the United Sons and Daughters of Africa in Brooklyn Sunday night erupted into a clash in which about 20 Black individuals defeated two white policemen, according to police. The event was described as a meeting to recruit Black people to go to Africa to contest for their race.
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