Word: bel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...
Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes Schreuer, 22, pretty actress daughter of future-gazing Designer Norman Bel Geddes; and Carl Schreuer, 26, marine electrical engineer: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Susan. Weight...
...lush assortment of girls, much bright costuming and some stylish Norman Bel-Geddes sets give The Seven Lively Arts its fine as well as foolish moments of display. Best moment: a spirited extravaganza celebrating Producer Rose's past glories (Jumbo, the Aquacade, Carmen Jones)-a fetching but futile attempt of the Rose to outbloom the Lillie...
Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
...Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...