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Last week the La Jolla (rhymes with Ahoy ya) Playhouse hit a jackpot with a midseason production of Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky. The cast read like that of a grade A cinema-Gregory Peck, Jean Parker, Benay Venuta, Florence Bates-and the first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help...
...Chinese Jackpot. In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes. The trouble with playshoes, he thought, was that their flat soles made women look dumpy. He copied the elevated, platform-type slipper which the Chinese had worn for centuries, and brought out "wedgies." This time he hit the jackpot...
...nowhere in their hunt for the killers. Fortnight ago, a letter with a jagged edge was mailed to the Sun-Times. The letter told where to find the gang which had murdered old man Engelhard. Editor Finnegan had the tip checked enough to convince him that it was the jackpot, and hustled it over to the police. Last week detectives arrested four members of a South Side gang, who confessed. Boasted the Sun-Times on Page One: SOMEBODY KNEW...
...family trade with an imposing sideshow of picnic areas, merry-go-rounds, dance floors, shuffleboard courts and bottle-warming, car-washing and laundry service. Among the latest gimmicks, planned or already drawing customers to the airers: nightclubs, golf-driving ranges, Shetland ponies, barbecue pits and motorized bingo (the jackpot goes to the right speedometer mileage...
...hopefuls started, and most were clocked in at the finish line, but one fellow took a wrong turn and was last seen heading in the direction of Natick. As only one machine was entered in the balloon-tire class, the lucky-- and unidentified--rider really hit the jackpot. He won a generator set, saddle bag, and carrier, the first three prizes in his group...