Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From North Africa, Private John Ganz wrote to his 19-year-old wife Gloria: "Oh, boy, how I miss you. I can hardly wait till I get home. (I hope the censor doesn't mind me writing this)." By the time Gloria Ganz got the letter a blue-penciled footnote had been added: "The censor wishes he was home...
...Comedy, his first novel, was the new Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller; The Human Comedy, his first movie, had a blinding première on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered yet another Saroyan precedent, refused to utter a word for publication...
Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions. Said she last week, as she reclined on a green plush L.A.C.C. sofa: "I am interested in the Pan-American relations phase of this course...
Chief attractions were 1) a bullfight and 2) a comedian. Better of the two was the bullfight, Silk, Blood and Sun, a gory affair starring one female and two male bullfighters, played by a dark beauty, Gloria Marin, a boyish Mexican matinee idol, Jorge Negrete, and stocky Pepe Ortiz, one of Mexico's top-rank toreadors. The film, which hangs on the usual triangle, gives Actress Marin and Actor Negrete little to do but look pretty, an assignment for which Miss Marin is admirably equipped. But the picture has a rough, lusty wit and becomes intensely exciting when Toreador...
Settled at last were the claims of Manhattan (Kans.) creditors against Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco & husband. The local suits were all dismissed and possible auction of such Vanderbiltiana as the family coat of arms and Father Reginald's gold polo trophies was avoided...