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Forbidden love

Credit: Brad Gregg It’s fair to say the love story of Ernest W. Marland and Lydie Roberts could have given Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn a run for their money in the department of the thoroughly icky. The Weinstein Company is set to make Ends of the Earth, a film dramatizing the tale of Marland […]

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Statuary world

A play by local author Bob Perry, based on his novel, staged its world premiere last week at Jewel Box Theatre. “Broken Statue” tells the compelling true story of the rise and fall of the Marland family, beginning in 1911, when down-on-his-luck former millionaire E.W. Marland comes from Pennsylvania to Ponca City, looking for oil. […]

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