Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trespasser, one of Hollywood's earliest (1929) sound movies, Director Edmund Goulding hit a snag: no matter how Gloria Swanson said the line ("Take him back, I don't want him"), it sounded corny. Instead of changing the line, he took the Hollywood way out: he diverted the audience's attention with background music. Goulding thought up a tune himself, whistled it to an arranger. His tune, to which Elsie Janis later wrote lyrics, became Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere...
...Whose mother, Lady Furness, is Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's aunt...
...eight played on ordinary days, but special bells like San Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands on tiptoes, his fists thrust toward the sky, pure ecstasy on his face...
Married. Dean Jagger, 42, cinemactor (Brigham Young, Sister Kenny); and Gloria Ling, 24, secretary to FORTUNE'S executive editor; he for the second time, she for the first; after a Santa Monica, Calif, marriage bureau denied them a license because of Miss Ling's Chinese father (California law prohibits white-Mongolian marriages), in Albuquerque...
Maestro Leopold Stokowski and wife Gloria were also attracting attention with their music: the tabloid Daily Mirror breathlessly reported that "neighbors have heard loud quarrels and the noise of thrown dishes...