Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play of about six years back, "Reflected Glory." In a way it seems a shame that the dust was disturbed, for the play was none-too-good when Tallulah Bankhead starred in it on its last appearance, and it makes a poor vehicle for the stage debut of Gloria Swanson, the well-known screen star. The play deals with the life of a rising actress and her feelings about life in the theatre. She babbles constantly about wanting to marry and have a home of her own, but the audience knows from the start that she really loves the theatre...
Married. Consuelo Morgan Thaw, 40, sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt (mother of Gloria), of Lady Furness, of Harry Hays Morgan Jr.; and Alfons Beaumont Landa, 44, law partner of Joseph E. Davies; she for the third time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills...
Enlisted: Gloria Vanderbilt's Pasquale di Cicco, at Fort Riley, Kans. Heiress Gloria took a stucco house at nearby Manhattan, after getting bids from four hungry Chambers of Commerce...
...Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...
...lobby of Park Avenue's Drake Hotel, Pat di Cicco, husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, got to fighting with an Irish room clerk because the hotel would not lend him a pot to cook a chicken...