Ann Arbor News, May 8, 1949
Digitized Photos:
- Hollywood scriptwriter George J. Burke, Ann Arbor Mayor William E. Brown, Jr., and retired University vice-president Shirley W. Smith, at the world's first "author's premiere" outside the Michigan Theater, May 1949
- Author Shirley W. Smith receives an 'Oscar' of a different sort from local attorney George J. Burke at the "author's premiere" at the Michigan Theater, May 1949
- Shirley W. Smith signs an autograph at the Michigan Theater, May 1949
- Local celebrities at the "author's premiere" in front of the Michigan Theater, May 1949
- Author and former University vice-president, Shirley W. Smith, embeds a baseball in wet cement at the "author's premiere" in front of the Michigan Theater, May 1949