Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty, olive-skinned Dorothy Holtz, 21, was a happy bride-to-be when she arrived at Vancouver Island late in August. From her home in Jamaica, she brought a tiered wedding cake and a long bridal gown. Her English fiance, John Michael Hewitt, 30, was a biology master at the exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys near Victoria. Hewitt, who formerly taught in Jamaica, had splurged his savings to furnish a cottage on the school grounds and buy a car. Dorothy had plans for a formal wedding, a big reception, and a happy life in the campus community...
...this Scotch-potch, Director Vincente Minnelli (Father of the Bride, An American in Paris) is a little unsteady on his feet, but when he gets them back on the solid floor of a U.S. barroom, he stands firm and delivers a raucously funny parody of life among the cocktail houris and their 5 o'clock shadows...
...BRIDE OF THE CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...
...eyed Alia El Solh, eldest of El Solh's daughters. But disillusionment set in. Alia, a Western-educated 22-year-old, learned to her chagrin that Sultan already had at least one other wife, two sons and four daughters. Sultan hired a private eye and discovered that his bride-to-be was a feminist agitator with a firm determination not to hide herself behind a veil and live in a harem. One month after old Ibn Saud went to his grave, the marriage plans were canceled (TIME...
...rich Talal provided his bride with a few trinkets as well. Items: a necklace containing 263 diamonds and an emerald; an engagement ring with a marquise diamond approximately an inch long, half an inch wide; a gold mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...