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Based on a novel by Lucy Herndon Crockett and filmed in the Virgin Islands, The Proud and Profane was produced and directed by the talented team of William Perlberg and George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, The Country Girl) and has a strong supporting cast headed by talented Thelma Ritter. None of them could save...
Died. Mary Herndon Ralston, 99, last survivor of nine children born to William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's longtime (21 years) law partner and biographer (Life of Lincoln); in Springfield, Ill. The Lincoln Herndon knew was an odd, thoughtful man ("the loveliest since Christ"), whose wife's temper was a town scandal and who brought his children to the law office where they "bent the points of all the pens, overturned inkstands, threw the pencils into the spittoon...
...father and I were driving toward a mail box at the corner of Peachtree and Houston Streets when there came from nearby Pryor Street a roar . . . which sent a sensation of mingled fear and excitement coursing through my body . . . We saw a lame Negro bootblack from Herndon's barber shop pathetically trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after...
Married. Dixie Dunbar, 36, onetime Broadway dancing star (Yokel Boy) whose legs have more recently been seen dancing beneath the pack of Old Golds on TV commercials; and Robert M. Herndon, motion-picture executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Frederick Ballard's Believe Me, Xantippo, ran 11 weeks, breaking all previous records for runs at the Castle Square and then moved to New York for 20 weeks in a production starring John Barrymore. After the war Oliver Morosco gave a similar award for two years, following which Richard Herndon established the Belmont Theater Prize on the same terms, from which came Philip Barry's highly successful...