Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds that royalties of more than $100,000 (received in a single year) were from records made in 1917 (TIME, Jan. 16, 1928). The other favored Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of the late great tenor, a brother, Giovanni Caruso, Rudolfo and Enrico Jr., natural sons, as against Gloria, 10-year-old legitimate daughter. New Jersey's Chancellor Edwin R. Walker had awarded Gloria two-thirds of her father's royalties which amount even now to some $70,000 a year. An Italian court was awarded the decision that, since the tenor left no will, each...
From time to time throughout the celebration week, four young ladies billed as the Gloria Trumpeters appeared dressed in flowing togas and blew sweetly upon burnished horns. Certain pastors joined in a dramatic exhibition entitled "Who Killed Earl Wright?" in which the deplorable results of bootlegging and alcoholism were made manifest. The theatrical climax of the week occurred when 1,200 Columbus churchmembers acted for four nights in a luxurious pageant called "The Church Triumphant," conceived by Helen L. Willcox of Pasadena. Its prelude, six episodes and finale showed scenes of various religious significance, including the dedication of Constantinople...
Cinemagoers who saw Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser (TIME, Nov. 11) were surprised when she sang the tawdry theme song in a voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic opera composer (The Merry Widow, Gypsy Love, The Count of Luxemburg) saw The Trespasser in Berlin. For two years he had consistently refused to write music for cinema production, but so impressed was he with the Swanson singing that last week he agreed to compose music for Queen Kelly, an unlucky Swanson vehicle- started two years ago, exhausting two directors (Von Stroheim and Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished...
...difficult for amateurs, the holes criss-cross each other and an artificial, pump-driven stream. Other features of the Harold Lloyd estate: an oldtime English barbecue, complete with kitchen, shelter and roasting pit; a swimming pool; four tennis courts; twelve handball courts; a miniature four-room house for Daughter Gloria...