Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board official. Founder Brown will play the title role in Montezuma. Young Onslow Stevens, who with Gloria Stuart is the Playhouse's gift to the films, will come back from Hollywood to take the lead in the Romero show. There will be lectures preceding each week's bill and "festival breakfasts" to discuss what the plays are about...
Relative your article TIME, June 7 on the word "jalopy" and Webster R. Kent's comments (TIME, June 21), I think you are both in error. Approximately ten years ago while in a Los Angeles café with the late Herbert Somborn, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, approximately eight mulatto dancing girls appeared. Mr. Somborn exclaimed: "What beautiful jalopies!" Pressing him for information, he stated that a jalopy was anything half black and that the word originated in a certain part of Africa, where plurals are unknown, and a jalopy is a African half black geese...
Meanwhile Manhattan Beautician Miss Gloria Bristol was back from Europe bursting with professional details of how Crown Princess Juliana lost some 30 lbs. within three months after her marriage, changed from a dumpling damsel into a royal wife with chic. "What Wallis Warfield was to the American woman over 40 who thought that life and romance ended with one's first youth," cried Miss Bristol, "Princess Juliana has become to millions of girls who had almost resigned themselves to the fate of the wallflower...
...Graham, '38, president of the club, and picaresque heroine of the current show. He gives us Miss Mae La Verne, who is pretty well described by her first name, and he captures all the seductive coarseness that his playwright colleagues have put into the part. Arnett McKennan, '37, as Gloria Mundi (And some of the best touches are to be found in the names.) makes a wholly satisfactory simple-minded, love-tossed heroine. In general, where the show is not brilliant it is still consistently diverting, and should have a prosperous...
Died. Benjamin Thaw, 47, onetime First Secretary to the U. S. Embassies in Brussels, Paris and London, husband of the former Consuelo Morgan (sister of Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt and Lady Furness); of heart disease; in Manhattan...