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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 34

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Marion Lome; Television and jHarold Gray, Creator of an Annie, Dies Orph StaaeActress frtm Staff Writtr 'J- STRIPES STRIKE AGAIN WHITE STAG CO-ORDINATES AT ALL SEVEN BULLOCK'S STORES The big stripe excitement for fun and play is styled in easy care cotton stretch sailcloth great go-to-gethers for big and little sister's sporting days. Navy white-lime stripe with matching solid or stripe tops. A. Stripe shift, 3-6X, 6.00; 7-14 ......8.00 B. Solid top, 3-6X, 2.50 7-14 3.00 C.

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Solid color capri, 3-6X, 4.50; 7-14 5.00 Mail and phone orders invited. 3 to 6 and 7 to 14 Shops NEW YORK Marion Lorne, 82, the fluttery, flustered witch of televir sion's "Bewitched" show, died early Thursday at her New York apartment Although her most recent acting cast her as a good natured auntwho often cast spells and then forgot how to remove them until the last minute Miss Lome had a long career on the American and British stage and in movies. Miss Lome, who played a scatterbrained comme-dienne on the old Gary Moore show and in the "Mr. Peepers" series, was: a star of the London stage for 35 years. She and her late husband, producer Walter Hackett, owned a London theater and Miss Lome acted in plays from comedy totragedy.

Played in "Harvey" The Pennsylvania-bom Miss Lome and her husband returned to New York during World War II and after Hackett's death she retired, briefly. When she resumed acting, her first part was that of the sweetly daft old girl in the road company production of "Harvey." She trained for the theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York, making Broadway before World War II and later starring in a series of hits in London's West End. She left no close relative s. Funeral services will be Monday in New York. 100th Anniversary Celebrated by Reno RENO () A frontier community, named Lake's Crossing became Reno exactly 100 years ago Thursday.

It was renamed for Gen. Jesse Reno of the Union Army who died in the Civil War, residents pointed out in marking their 100th anniversary. lip. i Exduiiv to Tti Tlmw LA JOLLA Cartoonist platold L. Gray, 74, who Jjeited the blank eyed ironic strip character s'Uttle Orphan Annie" and Letamed her in chiidnooa or 44 years, died Thurs- ay at Scripps Memorial 1 His nhvsician.

Dr. Harrv Si. Collins, said Gray had Buffered from lympno sar-Jcoma, a glandular form of jfcancer, for more than a wear. Gray was born Jan. 20, 1894, in Kankakee, 111., md went to work, fqr the mcago lnpune as a sum i t.

flftpf graduation rom Purdue University in .917. r-. He returned there after service in World War I. In .1920, he left tne snewsnaper to set up nis commercial art stu-Mio, and to become assistant to Sidney Smith, creator of another comic strip, jPThe Gumps." He was employed by Smith when the drew the first "Orphan" The strip first appeared ih the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News Jem 1924,: and quickly at tained an immense; popularity through syndication which at one time totaled more than auu newspapers. Throughout ner.

adven tures, Gray's brain-child remained a cipner-eyed Inttle girl about 10 years i i Old, accompaiuea an a 1 1 eyebaiiess dog named Sandy. Her bald billionaire benefactor, Daddy War-bucks, continually aban doned her to face perils alone, but usually turned I up with his helpers. Pun- jab and the Asp, to rescue her in the nick of time. Il1 Gray is survived by his' fsecond wife, Winifred, fiyhom he married in 1929, land a cousin, Robert R. gLeffingwell, of La Jolla.

first wife, Doris, died in 1925. Funeral services will be Saturday at C. J. Jordan Mortuary, Chicago, with Interment at Oakridge Ab- bey Mausoleum, Chicago. P' 0 0 Acldress.

Qty My r. Harold Gray Wiraphoto C. Levitt; Ad Executive Charles Levitt," 64, Los Angeles advertising and public relations executive, Thursday while on the annual horseback ride of the Rancheros, Vista-dores in Santa Barbara County. Mr. Levitt was for many years the public relations director for the Los Angeles Area Boy Scout Council and was awarded the council's Silver Beaver He also served as adviser to the All-Year Club of Southern California, the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce, the Wine Institute, and Santa Anita Racetrack.

Mr. Levitt, who lived at 1421 Morningside Drive, Burbank, is survived by his wife, Ethel, and two sisters, Mrs. Sophie Weiser of San -Francisco and Mrs. Pearl Berman of Oakland. Funeral, services will be conducted at 1 p.m.

Monday at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier. Jp': Marion Lorne Wl Wirephoto George Hay; 'Opry' Creator NASHVILLE -George D. Hay, 72, originator of the world famous Grand Ole Opry radio program here, died Thursday in his home at Virginia Beach, Va. Hay began his radio career as radio editor for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, first went on the air over Memphis station WMC in 1923, worked for WLS in Chicago and came to WSM in Nashville in 1925. He first coined the title Grand Ole Opry, synonymous with country and western music, for WSM in 1927.

At 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, 1925, Hay introduced himself as "the solemn ole judge" and launched the WSM barn dance and the program caught the imagination of the rural mid-South. Later, after it became the Grand Ole Opry, it was broadcast nationwide on network radio. Hay retired from WSM and the Grand Ole Opry in 1956.

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