EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, February
28, 1952 Vol. C350
LOCAL
NEWS
AFRICAN QUEEN MAKES A SPLASH ON LOCAL SCREEN
East
Farewell – The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn
open to great fanfare at the local movie house on Saturday. The Cinema was able
to procure a first showing of the film which was just released a week ago, by
owner, Frank Wagner, when he claimed that leading lady, Hepburn had local ties.
The claim is somewhat dubious; Miss Hepburn spent a summer in East Farewell
when she was attending Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA. She took a room with
two of her college friends in Mrs. Mallard’s boarding house for the months of
July and August. Fame had not come to Miss Hepburn at that time; she was just a
young college girl enjoying her summer. Flash forward to 1952 and her portrayal
of a prim spinster missionary living in German East Africa at the outbreak of
World War I. Her leading man, Bogart, plays a cantankerous river steam launch skipper who
navigates his boat, the African Queen, evading and eventually thwarting the
Germans.
“I remember those girls,” said Mrs. Mallard
when she was asked as she stood in line at the Cinema, “They were wonderful,
very well behaved and polite. Katharine actually came back after she graduated
for a week before she started her career. It is just wonderful to see her on
the silver screen. She is just so talented. I can’t wait to see this film.”
Frank Wagner’s coup to get on the
first round of showings should not be overlooked. He said he was actually on
the line with director John Huston to plead his case. Whether that is
completely true or not only two people will ever know, but how ever he did it
he was able to get a first showing of one of the most anticipated films of the
year shown in East Farewell. Well done.
Marquee of the downtown Cinema proclaiming “African Queen”
SPORTS
CAPTAINS CORRAL THE COUGARS
Fort Lee – The greatly improved Fort Lee Captains
showed their explosive nature in a surprisingly strong win over the Cougars on
Saturday. The Captains controlled the game from start to finish, only
relinquishing the lead twice, once at the end of the first half and then
briefly again in the third quarter. The Captains walked off with a 49-36 win
and stunned the Cougars. The Cougars were able to handily defeat the Captains
earlier this season, 48-32. The Captains started to turn their season around
right after that defeat. They also got an amazing addition to their lineup with
the activation of two seniors, guard Joe Lang and center Fritz Hammer. Both
started the season as team members but were injured and unable to play. Hammer
came back right after the Cougars game and Lang returned two weeks later. The
Captains have won all but one game since the two have returned. Last week they
beat the league leading Southport Hawks by four points. If they continue on
this blazing streak they will move into first place easily by the end of the
season.
The
game started out with the Captains showing their strength and running off to a
14-8 lead. Hammer and Cougars center, Bill Donahue immediately locked into a
fully committed competition that involved lots of contact. Both eventually
fouled out but not before Hammer ended with a game high of 22 points, 12
rebounds and 8 assists. Donahue followed close behind with a team high of 18
points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists. The Cougars were only able to catch the
Captains at the end of the first half and go into the locker room with a very
slim and hard fought lead 22-21. The Captains came right out in the second half
and retook the lead and held it until mid-way through the third quarter when
the Cougars grabbed a 30-28 lead. The lead only lasted a short time. The
Captains came storming back and aside from Hammer fouling out they had no miscues.
The Cougars on the other hand, along with Donahue fouling out also saw point
guard, Ted Fitzgerald foul out trying to guard a very shifty Joe Lang. The
Captains kept their pressure up right until the end and walked off with a very
impressive 49-36 win.
The Cougars come home next week where they will host the league leading Southport Hawks. This will be a critical game for the Cougars who need a win to stay in the top third of the league standings. The game is an unusual Saturday night game and begins at 7:30 in Regional High Gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE ACCUSES
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY – TAYLOR WEDS – DUMONT WANT YOU TO HAVE TWO – BARBER
SIGNS WITH DODGERS & SCHAEFER BEER – MOVIE STARS MAY BE GOING TO TV
The House Un-American Activities Committee accuses the motion picture industry of failing to take “positive and determined steps” to weed out Communists. It said that its public inquiry, first started in 1947, “had not lessened the extent of Communist infiltration in Hollywood.”
Elizabeth Taylor (19) weds Michael Wilding (20) in a 10-minute ceremony in London – at the Caxton registry hall. They emerged into a crowd scene that turned out to be a minor riot. The newlyweds were pushed and squeezed as they struggled to their car. Michael announced they would fly to Paris and then go for a brief honeymoon to some Swiss village.
DuMont says it is taking out ads for a promotion push to sell a second television set to every home in the New York metropolitan area. DuMont has 11 new television set models this year and New York already has 65% TV set penetration.
Red Barber signs a one-year deal with Schaefer Beer and the Brooklyn Dodgers to handle the Dodger games on radio and television. Connie Desmond and Vin Scully, who worked the Dodger games with Barber in previous seasons, are in the last lap of three-year contracts, so all three will appear in the booth this season.
A
number of top film stars, who have been prohibited from appearing on television
via their studio contracts, are expected to make the break for television this
fall. Everyone points to Clark Gable breaking the ice by his appearance at the
Eisenhower rally at Madison Square Garden on February 8. Even though Gable was
under suspension at Metro at the time, the fact that he agreed to go before TV
cameras indicates a changing tide. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer has been the most
outspoken anti-TV studio among the majors and the fact that they didn’t take
recriminatory steps against their star is being noticed.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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