Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the War, like many another English author, she went to Hollywood. There she found the pickings good, stayed nearly seven years. To her own labors there she credits such reforms in cinema sets as spittoonless ducal drawing rooms. She says she taught such stars as Valentino and Gloria Swanson how to make convincing love before a camera...
...Pittsburgh last week fashionable clothes were being shown by Thelma, Lady Furness who introduced Mrs. Simpson, the onetime Miss Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, to H.R.H. Last week Lady Furness' sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, said: "Yes, Mrs. Simpson is a good friend of my sister and of mine. And I have also had the honor of meeting the King. We don't see why people ask us about them-really ! It makes my sister very...
...today and tomorrow. Robert Montgomery, Eric Blore and Frank Morgan put on a screaming farce in "Piccadilly Jim," one of the funniest, cleverest light pieces of the current season. But whether you get it before, or after, or sandwiched between the asininities of "The Crime of Dr. Forbes" (starring Gloria Stuart and a number of other nobodies) your evening is damn near ruined...
Next day tired beauties wobbled down the boardwalk in a bicycle parade, saw baby-faced Phyllis Dobson ("Miss California") win a trophy for being "the best looking girl on a bicycle." In the three "talent" competitions, rangy Gloria LeVinge ("Miss Birmingham") was one of the three winners. Warned by officials not to drink, smoke or speak to strangers, chaperoned by watchful relatives, the contestants modeled clothes at a fashion show, minced about in 300 expensive evening gowns, heard slinky Arlene Causey, 18 ("Miss Cook County, Ill.."), named the best-looking girl in clothes...
...advertisement announcing that someone else has won the prize and is about to sell the ticket. Before the trap is sprung, Benson has been seen shooting a train conductor (also a G-Man) and rousing the jealousy of his girl Jeanie (Isabel Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made up of the kind of people whose names look naked when exposed on marquees, but they are professional enough to convey that their antics are all in fun without impairing the occasional legitimate moments. One of the latter: Jeanie killing Benson...