Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1949 — Page 26

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i By Erskin PALM SPRIN

night club floor show me get Idid.

.1 was sitting rinkaide for George Arnold's “Rhythm on Ice”: Tevue at the Del Tahquitz supper glub here. George

id troupe of 11 skaters

brilliant routines. And every time they went around the rink I got ice

, Spray in my hair. I wasn’t dizzy. . 1 was trapped. George's act, really good, in-

troduced frozen sand to Palm

Springs.

The troupe travels with a port-|

able ice rink the sizeof arf aver-| age night club dance floor. It's! unfolded and filled with sand. Then the sand is soaked with| water and frozen to form a solid | base, Sprinkle well with water before each performance and you have a temporary.slick surface. = ” » “Of all the fabulous people in fabulous, Palm Springs, Sam Levin now heads the list. Sam is the veteran San Fran. |

cisco theater chain owner who | built the Palm Springs Bilt- |

more Hotel as a $1 miilion hobby | for himself and his son, Robert.

® QUITE a pity ha He made 8 fortune with his San Francisco!

family. He's still having fun with them.

Another son, Irving, who be-| came one of my favorite people

when he introduced noiseless popcorn bags in the Levin movie houses, runs the theater chain. Son Robert. rups the hotel. Sam supervises, putters around in the hotel kitchen at midnight as an amateur chef and reads books about rare. birds.

SAM once had one of the finest,

collections of rare birds in America. He once paid $800 for a parakeet, He hired men to catch es and raise maggots to feed} his - flamingos, which the books say can't be done, . | He built a big swamp for the flamingos at Atherton; 30 miles from :8an Francisco, and trucked in mud for them to stand in.| But the books were rignt, They refused to breed. 3 ~ ” ” He tired of the Bobby, presented half his collection to the city of San Francisco; and sold the other half to the Catalina Island bird park. » . . SAM came to Palm Springs once for the winter. He fell in love with the place. So he built the Biltmore and now commutes by

plane between San Frangisco and

Palm Springs.

FRANK SINATRA'S $110,000 home is the No. 1 tourist attraction, but it's unpopular with visiting press and magazine photogFaphers. Frankie won't let 'em in. told you about his swimming

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‘Rhythm on Ice’ Reve Sprays Up Frozen Sand

GS, Cal, Apr, 22—Did you ever go to. a!

{acting debut on television. She's

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birds. He tried to breed

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parrot the floor in your hair?)

whirled arpund in a series of

Allan [Rocky] Lane sees plenty |

op of action in "The Bold Frontiers. pool in the shape of a baby grand man,’ currently on a double plano. Frankie at one time bill with "East Side Kids," at the

thought of building it in the shape of a bobby sock; but then thouglit => better of it.

Ambassador Theater.

Report Discovery 0f New Star

Believed Second Nearest Neighbor

| nwa : ; | The tallest date paim in the world—80 feet—is beside the pool at the Wonder, Palms. Climb it_ and you get a five- | pound box of dates. The Wonder Palms’ bartender whips up the most refreshing drink on the desert—boysenberry juice, | grape Juice, mes we vodka. By Neience Service

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Now it. can be. told Remember ny

{that photograph this winter of

lat the Palm Spri . the United States—was (tion? Pringa railroaq sta nounced here yesterday.

The picture appeared in almost

while members of the |8prings Chamber of Commerce plates which he made at the Har|gnashed their teeth and

|considered suicide. {African

station in

|nomical |Ha rvard Observatory.

the week before. That's Went Tovenge.

DON'T DISCOU NT. heredity. inch reflector at Tucson, Ariz., in-| Francis X. Bushman's grand-

daughter, Barbara, just made her takes perhaps less than six years

to reach the earth. Need Big Telescope “Only Alpha Centauri, four and, a half light years away, is nearer, {but it is visible chiefly from the

the daughter of “Director Lew! {Landers. . . . The New York Roxy {is waving a $10,000-a-week offer

accept if film schedules don't con-|

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ness to the earth. You will not be able to ses the

|erful telescope. It 1s 100 times too!

“I Remember Mama” nostalglo Ifaint to be seen with the naked drama. at 830 eye. — CIROEE | The newly found star will be manoed 1 853 Jn loprid Bere called L-726-8. It was found in| Jsoupms _ | the constellation cetus, the whale. Aaa feat? the Clouds,” ith Studied through observatory SR shetty and Gino Cervi. st |4elegcopes, It has been found to ioiaa be a doube star. It is actually “A Connect tien foe: two stars revolving around each Vilar Fata, 2 “Sing poi other, at a distance about three

times greater than that from the earth to the sun. Give Less Light Both of the stars are extremely red in color. They are much cooler, than our sun, actually giving 40,000 and 60,000 4{imes less light than the sun. They

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made astronomical . history — through an atomic explosion. Last | Dec, 8, the fainter of the two stars was seen to flare up suddenly to tweive times its normal brilliance, and. subside again in less than 20 minutes, This phenomenon is thus far unique {among stars, 7 : It's fortunate that this is unprecedented, because if it ever happened to our sun, we on earth! would have a very uncomfort-| able, hot quarte} of an hour, ag “hell: on earth.” | In ‘the ‘very faint, cold star, the atomic explosion, for such it must have been, amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type.

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IU Student Composers Attending Symposium BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Apr. 22 ~--8ix student composers of the Indiana University School of Music are now attending the second annual Migwest Sympos-| fum for Student. Composers at! Cincinnati College of Musie. The | symposium will continue through tomorrow, Other schools represented at the symposium are Jordan Conserva-| tory of- Music, Indianapolis; Uni-|

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gument in the cold war. A Y Ww 0 0D Apr. 22—; The picture- and movie-laden. iscovery of a. star—believed to|jeep is the State ‘Department's Drive-In

a bé our second nearest star-neigh-answer to this problem. Movies group of pretty girls in fur coats Por in space and the closest one and still pictures, it has been dis|meeting the train in a snowstorm Which can be seen from most of covered, are excellent mediums, an- for mass education.

Dr. Willem Luyten of the Uni- yards, where it requires only a {every newspaper ir the nation versity of Minnesota spotted the minimum

Palm Star by comparing photographic|they're twice as effective. even {vard College observatory’'s South 1930 oh f d with ies and The phot plates taken by the Harvard Ob-/of democracy movies an | ana ey PRIN ae wvanged servatory in 1944. Discovery was| (slides, the jeep is equipped with RETTY Iheaters from 1908 1 3922. yes) the chamber who had been fired fePorted-to the American astro- powerful short wave radio for| e retired to have fun with clearing house at the picking up actual Voice of Ameri-| th | Observations made with the 36:

dicate that light from the star) grams, giving millions a chance

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new find without the aid of a pow-|

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_ Vehicles Loaded With Equipment Will Visit

-44 Countries in Educational Campaign By DOUGLAS LARSEN, NEA Staff Correspondent - ‘WASHINGTON, Apr. 22-—-The Btate Department will soon {have 85 potent packages of propaganda in action selling the

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