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Show y i HilirTl il"W"irfnfrw-rTfi"i"iir-r-n-i- -v-i-m hi ijj.t mm.jnji,i .j, f h i ' 1 3K---riTJl6rfmiii . iril International Amphitheatre, Chicago's great convention, exposition ex-position and sports building Is the site for the Republican and Democratic national conventions In July, 1952. The arena of the huge structure Is now air-conditioned for greater comfort of those who occupy Its 12,000 seats. Despite the fact that the stock yards amphitheatre seats 8,000 less than the stadium, there are several compensatory factors which led to selection of the new site. One particularly par-ticularly good reason is that the amphitheatre is air-conditioned and that in itself is compensation when the heat factor on a Chicago July day is taken into consideration. Other factors included the fact that adiarpnt to thn rnnvontlnn hull Itoolf By INEZ GERHARD TNOROTHY SARNOFF is letting no grass grow under her pretty feet these days. Featured in the best musical in New York, "The King and I", she has been appearing appear-ing on television more and more frequently. Now she has taken time off to rush to Hollywood and make a picture. This could be merely the preliminary to appearing on the screen in the role she does so beautifully beau-tifully in "The King and I" when that magnificent show reaches the screen; certainly no one could do it better than she does. Margaret Truman's ability to relax re-lax amazed even RCA-Victor veterans vet-erans during her recent recording session with the Boston Pops' Arthur Ar-thur Fiedler for a new song album. are four large rooms for housing committees and other essential activities ac-tivities of the convention, also air conditioned, plus large a r a cent rooms to serve as workrooms for the press and radio, the necessary equipment for telegraph, telephone and teletype machines, dark rooms for photographers and other work incidental to such a big show as a national political convention. While television received its first big work-out at the Philadelphia convention con-vention four years ago, television this year will play a larger part and will have a coast to coast audience, whereas four years ago the audience was confined to the east coast. Another factor taken into consideration considera-tion is that there is lighted space adjacent to the amphitheatre big enough to park 4,000 automobiles. A first class hotel, good restaurants also are immediately adjacent. HAROLD BECKLEY and William Donaldson, superintendents of the senate and house press galleries, respectively, and other members of a press committee, with representatives represen-tatives of the Republican and Democratic Demo-cratic national committees, already have worked out seating arrangements arrange-ments to handle approximately 1500 reporters for newspapers, periodicals, period-icals, magazines, radio and television. tele-vision. These temporary stands must be built from scratch, using and entirely en-tirely new arrangement than heretofore hereto-fore used either at Chicago or Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Members of a joint committee from the two national committees also have worked out their arrangements arrange-ments to handle the delegates, seating seat-ing and temporary stands, the two committees to share the expense jointly. About the only difference will be that when the Republican convention adjourns, pictures of Republican Re-publican leaders will be taken down and Democratic pictures will be hung in their places. Even though the seating capacity does not measure up to the 20,000 which have been crammed into the old stadium, those in charge of the convention are delighted with the better facilities. LsVssswsissmMkbb MARGARET TRUMAN They'd expected her to be stiffly ! proper. She removed her shoes between be-tween takes, sipped coffee from the thermos jug she'd brought from home, and sent out for hamburgers when a long break permitted. Nobody was at all surprised when the George Stevens production for Paramount, "A Place in the Sun", was voted the best motion picture of 1951 by the National Board of Review. Re-view. It's a leading contender for the Academy Award. |