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...last September came a once-in-a-lifetime chance of the kind that Hollywood pictures have long made commonplace. One of her young men invited Betty to a swimming-dancing party at the Bel-Air mansion of British Sportsman Fred McEvoy...
Assigned by OWI to plan a touring display of United Nations war materials, Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes...
Name's Chances. The 16th California District (195,434 votes in 1940) includes movie-rich Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Westwood, labor and middle-class groups in Santa Monica, Culver City, western Los Angeles. From his movie friends Will Jr. hopes for campaign speeches, votes and money. He also hopes to capitalize on labor's hate for Leland Ford. It was apoplectic Mr. Ford who suggested concentration camps for labor leaders "guilty of dissension," and last year he sponsored a bill making strikes in defense industries punishable by imprisonment, even death. With a fair record on foreign policy...
...music was by Stravinsky, the choregraphy by Balanchine, the costumes by Norman Bel Geddes. But New Yorkers weren't swooning over a new ballet; they were in Madison Square Garden watching 50 elephants in pink panties cavort at The Circus. They were gaping at bright blue and red tanbark, girl rope climbers who looked like Ziegfeld chorines, wedding-cake beautifications, Peter Arno drawings in the programs, refreshments passed on china platters. If they were old or sentimental enough, they were wondering what had become of the pink lemonade, the gold-toothed lady bareback rider, the gaudy, dirty, bewildering oldtime...
Last week Berlin announced that on Sept. 11 Leopold had married Marie-Lelia Baels, renouncing for any children of the marriage the right to the Belgian throne. The renunciation was largely academic. Eleven years had almost leveled the stations of the dark-eyed commoner and Bel gium's morose prisoner...