Word: armand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dangerous Journey (20th Century-Fox) is a travel picture made by Armand and Leila Roosevelt Denis, producers of the magnificent Dark Rapture (1938). Among its glimpses of the Belgian Congo, the Ganges, Ceylon and Burma there are only a few shots which, in the words of Baedeker, need detain the tourist. But these few make the picture worth seeing. Best...
...Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first...
...longue in a negligee trimmed with marabou," Perelman glanced at the "Why Don't You?" department in Harper's Bazaar: "Why don't you try the effect of diamond roses and ribbons flat on your head, as Garbo wears them when she says good-bye to Armand. . . ?" "Why don't you travel with a little raspberry-colored cashmere blanket?" "Why don't you twist [your daughter's] pigtails around her ears like macaroons?" That chance glance changed Perelman's life. He would become a writer...
...Armand Hammer went to Russia and, realizing that there is almost nothing a bureaucracy needs so much as pencils, began to manufacture them for the newly established Soviet Government. He made such good pencils that grateful Bolsheviks sent him back to the U.S. to unload their greatest white elephant, the Imperial Russian crown jewels and objets d'art. He unloaded them so successfully that when the world's only other comparable white elephant, the Hearst art and antique collection, was put up for sale in 1941, Armand Hammer was called in to do the selling...
...stage performance of Boris Godunoff, which opened the Metropolitan Opera's diamond jubilee season last week, Critic Downes was right. The horse, a splendid specimen of white charger from the Ben Hur Stables, succeeded repeatedly in bringing down the house. On several occasions as his rider, Tenor Armand Tokatyan, soared toward a top note, the animal turned a ripely expressive backside to the audience and obliged Tokatyan to sing squarely into the scenery...