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Louisiana Purchase (Victor Moore, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Dona Drake; TIME...
Glamor is added to Frenchman's Creek by rigging everyone in costume (vaguely Restoration) and setting him high in the social scale. But the story of Lady Dona St. Columb is the same story that hundreds of women's-magazine serials have told & told again: the temptation and fall-strictly temporary-of a respectable woman. Says Lady Dona, over-assessing herself in the time-honored fashion of housewives...
...that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull in Technicolor walked off with Zanuck's show, leaving his own star, downy Tyrone Power, a poor third.) The Works. After a year of being jounced around in free-lance Westerns (says she: "Those are the days...
...Cathedral. Here he lives with his handsome wife Carmen, whom he married eleven years ago while on duty in Oviedo, and his daughter Carmencita, who is two years younger than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently officiates at charity bullfights...
...canyons beyond, a great segment of the swallow cloud broke off, swooped down on the Mission. Then began Capistrano's annual battle of birds as the swallows fought to drive interloping swifts and sparrows from their last year's nests. Meantime cameras whirred, radio announcers chattered and Dona Magdalena Murillo, 89, triumphantly croaked her tale of watching the swallows' clocklike arrival and departure every year since childhood...