Today
Van Johnson shares starring
honors with two beautiful lead
* mg ladies, Piper Laurie and Mar
tha Hyer, and a beautiful well
trained white German Shepherd
<Iog in “Kelly and Me,” the Uni
versal-International . picture in
"Technicolor and Cinemascope,
which opens at the Orpheum this
afternoon.
Johnson is a vaudevilian with a
performing dog. The dog becorties
the main factor in Johnson be
coming a movie star.
Sunday and Monday
The first U.S. motion picture
ever made in Greece, said to be
“breathtaking and beautiful,” and
called “Boy On a Dolphin,” is the
next screen showing. A seaside
romantic tale, it displays the tal
ents of Alan Ladd and Clifton
Webb, as well as that of the glam
orous Sophia Loren.
Miss Loren, a Greek island girl,
goes skin-diving in the Aegean
Sea, and discovers the fabulous
statue 'of a boy astride a dolphin
lost centuries ago in a sunken
galleon.
There are scenes in front of the
world-famous Parthenon on the
historic acropolis, also famed
Greek landmarks like Delphi,
Corinth, Delos, the Monastery of
Meteora, and the ancient island of
Hydra.
The combination of a fine cast
and Twentieth-Century-Fox’s Cin
emascope and color by De Luxe
should make this a fine picture
to see.
Tuesday and Wednesday
A five-star' cast is the boast of
“The Tattered Dress,” courtroom
drama in whichwell-known play
ers have leading roles. In it are
Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack
Carson, Gail Russell and Elaine
Stewart.
Chandler portrays a brilliant
criminal lawyer hired to defend
Reed on a charge of murder in a
small California desert resort
town. He wins the case, but is forc
ed back into court to defend him
self against a jury-bribing, charge
trumped up by a corrupt sheriff,
played by Jack Carson.
Thursday and Friday
The little-known.but historically
accurate activities of marauding
Comanches in Mexico supplied
the background for “Coman
che!” an exciting yarn of the
Indian wars of the 1870’s, opening
Thursday. It is a United Artist
release.
It stars Dana Andrews and ti e
Latin-American beauty, Linda
Cristal. It is in Cinemascope an I
color by De Luxe, and was filmed
entirely on location in and around
Durango, Mexico. j
Andrews plays the principal
role as Jim Read, Chief scout < f'
the Fourth U.S. Cavalry Regiment.
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The U« S. will need as much oil in the next 15 yean
.*.« it produced in the past century. To locate new
sources of oil and develop known fields, we invested
•^30,915,466 last year . . . drilled 968 new wells, ol
which 176 were dry holes.
To help transport more oil and finished products in
the future Standard has placed orders for $148,368,510
worth of new facilities, including 10 supertankers,
greater pipeline capacity and additions to our fleet
of trucks and trailers.
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Research helps create new products . . . and new
jobs. During 1957 we had 1400 full-time employees in
research and technical services alone. As a result of
continuing research we now make more than 1,000
products that were not marketed 15 years ago.
While most of Standard's income went back into
the business, our 148,315 stockholders received about
M for each dollar of stock investment at market value.
Dividends encourage future investments, helping all
business to expand and improve service.
Economic progress doesn’t just happen. It must begi
long-range planning to meet the challenge of the future.
As we see it, this is the challenge: By 1968 the U. S. will 1
people . . . 17% more than today To sustain this growing
raising the standard of living, the nation will require 4
and services.
That's why last year Standard invested more than ever to
future products for you and for the security of our country.
will continue to invest, providing jobs and opportunities tb
more abundant life for our nation and its people in the je
Again last year Standard was one of the West’s
largest customers. Our purchases included 50,000
items . . . helped provide employment and payrolls
for more than 10,000 large and small business firms
in hundreds of Western communities.
Through affiliates we also helped advance progress
in more than 70 frieifdly Eastern Hemisphere coun
tries. Oil development htlps local business, provides
employment and supplies funds for education, health
and housing.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
plans ahead to serve you better