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Before the snagging of a solid millionaire (Robert Cummings) resolves this fiscal impasse, Moon has used up seven woefully unimaginative tunes, the pneumatic assets of the Misses Grable, Landis, Cobina Wright Jr., the semitropical color and languor of Miami, the devilishly clever, coy stock-in-trade that passes for acting with Mr. Ameche, and $1,000,000 worth of Darryl Zanuck's money...
Instead of choosing to come out in New York along with her classmates from Miss. Hewitt's exclusive school, Cobina at the age of 16 started to make her way in the entertainment world. "Personally I think the present debutant system is ridiculous," she exclaimed. "In the old days when a girl led a sheltered life until her debut and then for the first time met a group of eligible men, well, then it was all right...
...falling flat, and ends up as out-and-out burlesque. If "Worth A Million" had tried to compete with the Old Howard, from the start, it could have made better use of its east. Glamor-the old and the new -is represented to perfection in Nita Naldi and Cobina Wright, Jr. Nita is dark and over-weight. Junior is blonde and slim. He stature is picturesque. She deserves to have a play built completely around her--a play which would just stop in the middle and give the audience a chance to look and wonder...
Couturier Mainbocher started neither the corset nor the idea of reviving it this year, but his sponsorship was the fillip the trend needed. Mainbocher is a slim, blond, fluty young man who used to play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers...
...contest held at Palm Beach's swank Colony Club, the leading contender for the title of "Glamor Girl of Palm Beach" was 17-year-old Cobina Wright Jr., Manhattan cafe society songstress. Judges were Photographer Hal Phyfe and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg. After an argument with his fellow judge, Flagg huffed: "I have a vote, but it is not for Miss Cobina Wright. However, I will turn my vote over to Phyfe, and he can make the choice." Phyfe promptly chose Cobina Wright. Next day Illustrator Flagg saw her on the beach in a one-piece bathing suit. Dazzled...