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Died. Blanche Bates, 68, romantic heroine of the U.S. stage of the early 1900s; of a stroke; in San Francisco. Born into a theatrical family, she chose to be a schoolma'am, was teaching kindergarten in San Francisco in 1894 when she made her stage debut with a local company in which her mother acted. She never returned to teaching. Her first major hit was as Cho-Cho-San in Madame Butterfly in 1900. As Cigarette in Under Two Flags (1901), as the breezily beautiful Girl of The Girl of the Golden West (1905), her popularity hit tops...
...match as a professional tennist; defeating Don Budge, onetime nonpareil; 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; before a crowd of 11,000; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with Budge), to turn...
Patricia Hitchcock, twelve-year-old daughter of Cinedirector Alfred, looked forward to a Broadway debut, but declared: "I don't have any ambitions to be in the movies, ever." Papa said he had no ambition to direct...
Booth Tarkington, 72, makes his debut in dress-shirt music this week when the Indianapolis Symphony and a contralto soloist give Credo-words by Tarkington...
Making her Broadway debut, Judith Evelyn plays the terrified wife brilliantly, knowing when to show restraint, when not to. And Vincent Price is never a mere stage villain, Leo G. Carroll never a mere stage detective...