Word: alhambra
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...shows, was bitterly vexed when he learned it was an ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence of his personal showmanship was his propensity for surrounding Character Belasco with the proper dramatic setting. Visitors at the studio above his theatre were shown his fireplace from the Alhambra, his chair made from a pew in a church at Stratford-on-Avon, his collection of 300 watches, knick-knacks and curiosities of all sorts. In his apartment in a quiet family hotel (the Gladstone) he had a miniature cathedral chancel in one of the closets. It is not likely that...
...Bernardino range, and another study in contrast as the plane "coasts" down the heavily wooded slope, orange groves reaching to the foothills, and again a close-lined population checkerboard. In the distance-it is now dusk -are the lights of Los Angeles and the welcoming beam of Alhambra Airport...
DAVID P. GIBBONS Alhambra, Calif...
...works hard from 8:30 to 5:30, usually at the Western Air field at Alhambra, Calif., sometimes at the company headquarters in Los Angeles where he shares an office with two others. His fellows like him for his affability, attribute his apparent diffidence to his partial deafness. He drives a Chrysler car to and from Pasadena, where he lives with his wife, the former Margaret Watson, and their three children. A facile writer, he types his own copy for Aero Digest, for which he is radio editor and a monthly contributor...
...Sitwellian manner: besides the mystery it contains much acute and polished conversation on morals, literature, life; a complete satirical sketch of tourists shut up together on a liner; criticisms of art and nature; and what might almost serve as a guidebook to Granada, Spanish setting of the famed Moorish Alhambra...