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The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 4

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ducers without studio overhead a production code seel) that can't 4 A THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY EVENING JULY 27 1358 be seen on the family TV set Pay-TV may mean top movies at home I top producer John Huston I maker recently said Tm not pessimistic Any-' one that didn't see this coming to worry about while the studios concentrate on TV films This year more multi-million- dollar films are being released than at any time in history As one producer says these 1 ENTERTAINMENT FACES REVOLUTION Show Business Era Is Ending ollywood Gambles on Epics 11 By ALINE MOSBY I ment world is drawing to a close HOLLYWOOD What is This year Hollywood is gam-the state of the movie business? 'bling its future on a rash of epic Industry observers agree that a 50-year era that saw film theaters as top dog in the entertain- pictures that costs nearly 50 million dollars victim movies draw them into the must have been blind Back in theaters nothing 11950 1 predicted the studios Many film makers feel the fate would make less pictures and i cf Hollywood hinges on what hap-1 tbey were sore as hell! pens to these pictures at the box- I an average stu- office: Ten js down to 20 pictures a year (cost 13 million dollars) soon it will be making 10 People and (6 million) who say they make picture! (King and (43 million) at big budgets will change their (43 million) and tune Within two years well be (5 million) 'getting many 10 million dollar pictures And if that happen we may as well all quit and start working for Movies the only of the show business revolution The big circuses are folding big night clubs are fading and may be extinct except in New York and Las Vegas Television may not be the prime reason Sociologists say the pattern of American life is changing with activities centered around the automobile back yard barbecue the do-it-yourself movement and TV set M1RROR TOO MUCH FOR THIS SPARROW MEMPHIS (AP) Don Fuller used psychology on the hot-headed sparrow who would strut up to the bedroom window each dawn and start a lively fight with his reflection Fuller put a magnifying mirror against the window The little sparrow took one look at his horrifying foe He been back Note: An era in show business appears to be ending Circuses are folding television is booming and the motion picture industry is undergoing a revolution The following dispatch details the change) So far the pictures that have been released are doing well But whether the tremendous investment will pay off in the long run be known until the final returns are in MANY THEATERS CLOSE However observers think the revolution means the end of the movie business One expert predicts within five years the na-j 19000 movie theaters (4000 drive-ins and 15000 will dwindle to 10000 These few theaters will show' supercolossal epics and pictures (minus 1 Save Now i on Your Aluminum Awnings Phone 4-5700 FARR SUPPLY CO 2041 Washington Blvd Whatever the reasons revolution signs in the movie industry complained have been increasing Net profits at the big movie Warner Bros sold its backlog studios have dropped some as of films to television When tra-1 much as 40 per cent ditional MGM recently announced Most film-makers' think the it would rent its old films to TV trend will he toward the release Wizard of ot fewer pictures a year most of exhibitors objected and them supercolossal epics Mapy even ex-MGM-ite Clark Gable! will be made by independent pro- PARRIS ISLAND (AP) The court-martial of Sgt Matthew McKean was in adjournment today until Monday But thm big Marine base was humming after these two developments yesterday: 1 The testimony of Col David Silvey last prosecution witness who said he had never heard of a ytieht march by recruits bore and he has been here surce Sept 21 1953 2 A document produced by the defense which indicated that the House Armed Services Committee in May had given the Marine Corps 90 days to clean houe The court is concerned with a right disciplinary march ordered by Me Neon in which six recruits drowned HIGHEST OFFICER At the time of the march1 April 8 Silvey was operations and training officer whose section had charge of preparing plans for recruit training He was the highest ranking Marine officer to take the stand for the prose-! cution I Silvey also told the court that i he had never conducted a night I inspection of the marshy areas back of the 3rd Recruit Battalion or behind the rifle range The House Armed Services ultimatum was contained in a document labeled of the Commandant of the Marine Corps governing recruit issued May 1 the date the Commandant Gen Randolph McC Pate appeared before the committee His appearance was prompted by the a th march Excerpts from the document were used in questioning a witness at the court-martial Thurs-I day The full document was not sv FROM SAMARITAN His face contorted vith pain Raymond Irrizarry 9 reaches up in gratitude Mo Dolores Carpenter a nurse who 'stopped to minister to him after he was struck by a truck in the Bronx The boy was hospitalized with a possible fractured leg Part cf the truck can be seen in the background Sells Conditioner At 2 in the Morning OMAHA (AP) An Omaha ap- pliance dealer demonstrated his sales ability by selling an air conditioning unit to a heat-ridden family at 2 in the morning The dealer had worked late completing an air-conditioning installation and was driving his truck back with one window cooler aboard He noticed lights on at one house and could observe the occupants obviously suffering from the heat It was 2 am when he knocked at the door and made the sale He proceeded with the installation completing it a few hours before dawn Ivory Towers to Rise ST IGNACE Mich (AP) Ivory towers will rise between a pale green suspension span when the Mackinac Straits Bridge is painted the color scheme decided on for the 100 million dollar bridge linking upper and lower peninsulas It is to be completed in late 1957 CLAY PRODUCT FLU-LIHER WESTERN ROUNDUP UTAH CONCRETE CHIMNEY BLOCK Safe econcmicc'! Enough Utah Concrete White Lcvo Block for cm 1 8-ft chimney cost only $2052 right into your chimney Fits block far the overage 1 8-foot chimney only $990 Board Denies License To Big Vegas Hole! ipl UTAH COKCRETE PIPS CO vQyP 1543 Well Avenue Phene 2-7515 Ogden AMD OFFICES IN SAIT LAKE LOGAN PROVO CARSON CITY Nev The multi-million dollar Hacienda Hotel Corp of Las Vegas was denied a gambling license -because i j-ggej court it hired Jake Kozloff to run the casino Silvey was the 36th and 'last State gaming board members said the other 32 partners in witness for the government which the 7 million dollar enterprise may file another application for a license when they find another gambler The board declared it opposed Kozloff because of past activ- Iand Tuesday the Marine Corps ities in the state and in the gam- yesterday called off an air and bling sea search The missing man was It also objected to his finances identified as 2nd Lt Thomas completed its case against the 31-year-old former drill instructor from Worcester Mass Convoy System Whips Dog Biting Menace La Toof of Lexington Tex Elk Dunks Woman Kozloff was to have put up $250-000 in cash and equipment to bankroll the casino taking in return 12 Vz per cent of the net Here hdspace for your money! Ford'i F-1C0 Pickups now offered in two body lengths New 8-foot box on 118-inch wheelbase gives np to 19 cu ft more capacity than any other half-tonner Regular 6V'2-faot box on 110-inch wheelbase is one of roomiest in its class with a full 45 cu ft capacity New 2-stage rear springs give smooth ride loaded cr light HUNTINGTON Va James Arthur a letter carrier was bitten by dogs four times in his first four years on the job but he has solved the perennial problem Arthur now takes a 10-year-old Boxer as a companion on his route and he been bitten since the new assistant joined him two years ago MALTA Mont (AP) Mrs Elizabeth Swan says an elk In other actions the £armnte pUShed her into the Missouri board recommended to the State River She said she was sitting Tax Commission that five smaip on a carnp stool awaiting a bite Nevada clubs be put out of the on er when an elk gambling business altogether for Sxpped up behind her and nudged cheating and other improper op- jRj0 water erations TWO SUSPENSIONS It also recommended that the L0S ANGELES (AP) The activities of two others be rnonth-long exhibit of selected pended temporarily paintings of the Waiter Chys- Recommendations for the reyo-1 jer jr art collection opens today cation of all gambling including 1 the county museum slot machines were made for the Merry Go Round the Waldorf 'Dead Man' Turns Up and for Leon and Eddie all of 1 Reno: and the Horeshoe Club I BILLINGS Mont (AP) Law-and the Stagecoach Inn both of jrence Vandeveegaete 45-year-Elko jold Billings man who was be- In addition the Esquire Club lieved drowned in Stillwater Riv-of Fallon was suspended for 30 er last June 26 has been found I days pending investigation of alive at Klamath Falls Ore his two decks of marked cards found family said today seems on the premises Owner Hugh to know for sure how- he got Duncan claimed the decks were said Mrs Irma Beaver a daughter sure Suspended indefinitely was the Sawdust Corner at Virginia City because owner Claire Moore Beautify Your With i SAKDSTOME (Wholesale-Retail) Many Colors to Choose From Use for PATIOS FIREPLACES BARBECUES PLANTERS And Many Other Uses Sales and Contracting PIONEER TILE CO 3019 Washington Phone 6914 Take a tip from the men who buy trucks every year! MIDSUMMER LZ3 CLEARANC FINE PERCALES All guaranteed Yard 54-INCH INDIAN HEAD Regular price -149 Yard SUMMER FABRICS Values to 1 93 Yard CJ uu Back to School FINE COMBED GSMGE-5AMS 45-inch Checks 45-inch Plaids 89c yd- yd- permitted his daughter to deal after telling the board he would not do so Ball President' Accused BOISE (AP) Robert A Ran- dall Boise businessman and president of the Boise Braves baseball team faced a charge today of making indecent advances on a Boise woman who described her-1 self as his former private secre- tary Mrs Martha Turk divorced and the mother of five children filed the complaint against Ran-j dall in Ada County District Court asking damages of $75000 She claimed that Randall ac-1 costed her her hotel room in New Orleans last Oct 25 Tractor Crushes Boy CAMBRIDGE Idaho (AP) Donnie Van Komen son of Mr and Mrs Pete Van Komen of Cambridge was crushed to death Thursday when the tractor he was driving ran off a' highway and toppled over Body Unclaimed STr MARIES Idaho (AP) Relatives have failed to claim the body of 22-year-old Mrs Dorothy Jung of Kansas City Mo who was shot to death by her husband as the couple was driving near here last week He then killed himself The woman was given a county-expense burial yesterday with only a minister and two funeral attendants on hand Search Called Off EL TORO Calif (AP) On the presumption that a Marine ordnance officer drowned when he parachuted from a disabled attack bomber rear Catalina Is- fe A1 The big fleets have the cost records They know which trucks cost less to buy and run They know which trucks are the most dependable1 And official registration figures show that more big fleets choose Ford than any other make When you decide to go Ford you certainly get comforting assurance that picked the right truck! Low truck costs are just as important to big fleet users as they are to you And when fleet buyers favor Ford you can be sure they've checked all cost factors You can be sure found that Ford trucks cost less First cost is low Resale values are high modem Short Stroke engines keep running costs down And a 10-million truck study proves that Ford trucks last longer See your Ford Dealer soon Buy with confidence drive with confidence and SAVE with confidence from horsepower exhaust Power I -r plaids tweeds checks plain Bates Disciplined 5139 yd- 42" Fullerjel Dip 'n Dry SI 15 Summer Wear SUN SUITS DIAPER SETS SWIM TRUNKS AND rugged T-SQO is a real money-maker! two heavy-duty developing 200 and 212 Both are equipped with sodium-cooled valves that last as much as five times longer! steering and tachometer standard cl na extra mi Many Oilier Hems I I 1 fi less -last longer Piano Electric Ice Boxei Packing Furniture Baggage Storage lYPYY Ll Li Using latest registration data on 10502351 trucks life Insurance experts prove Ford Trucks last longer Acresi ths Street or Acres ths Nation Including Mexico Canada Alaska SLADE TRANSFER Agiftf North Amricen Von Line 531 22nd Street Dial S944 1 J3 i j- 3 mm FORD SALES i-A Phone 8130 5 4 2477 Washington Blvd VAI Diet 8803 359 26th Street.

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