Word: beryl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beryl Scott resigned from Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller. He had already divorced her in Nevada and married again (his fourth), but she divorced him in California for good measure, and got it pressed down and overflowing: custody of the three children, their $50,000 home, car, jewelry and a minimum of $1,000 a month...
...Horse, mounted on a wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
Vaughn Monroe Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Colonel Stoopnagle, purry-voiced British Singer Beryl Davis, Maestro Monroe & orchestra, in a stylish variety hour...
...Beryl is already an experienced trouper, and a trouper's daughter. She was born in a dressing room of a Plymouth theater. At three, she saved her father's vaudeville act. He had called for volunteer singers from the audience and got no response; in desperation he sent backstage for her, and she toddled out to sing Constantinople. By the time she was 14, father had a dance band and she became its featured singer. After the war, securely established as England's top singer of softly swung ballads, she got a key BBC show...
Last week, with her first U.S. record out (If My Heart Had a Window, I Want to Be Loved) and another due next week, Beryl faced the Broadway bobby-sox brigade, which decides a popular singer's fate* in the big and noisy Strand theater. To most soxers, she was a Shore dimly seen, but with a smooth timbre and phrasing of her own. Variety reported that "her click is unmistakable ... a definite new song personality." Sighed Beryl, who is a fresh, friendly but slightly reserved girl offstage: "I do hope they like me; I don't want...