Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stokowski, pleading other engagements, had refused a March invitation to guest-conduct the Havana Philharmonic. But then a Chilean impresario, Jorge Estradé, signed him up for a Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
...Margaret Truman's first White House dance last week, no rugs were cut. The President's daughter ordered the U.S. Marine Band's dance orchestra to open her party for bride-to-be Gloria Chavez (see MILESTONES) with a medley of Strauss waltzes. After that the 60 youthful guests fox-trotted sedately about the huge East Room, occasionally frisked a bit more gayly to rumbas and congas...
Sadja Stokowski, 15, finally trailed Father Leopold into print with a picture taken at a yachting party at Palm Beach (see cut). The maestro's second daughter (by Wife No. 2), she threatened to out-glamor Glamor Girl Gloria, Wife...
...Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren of the silents, trim and tiger-eyed at 46, fought her fifth husband* for high-styled support, went to court in Manhattan for separate maintenance of $1,000 a week. Wall Streeter William N. Davey had the money, said she, but they didn't get along: 1) he drank too much; 2) she wanted to live at her place on Fifth Avenue, he at his on Park; 3) she liked twin beds, he a double one big enough to sleep a ball team; 4) he talked about building her a yacht with a glass...
...Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, mother of glamor girl Gloria Jr. and twin sister of England's Lady Furness, flew home from England with glad tidings of London. Reported mink-coated Mrs. Vanderbilt: "The people are brave and are taking it beautifully. Nobody dresses formally...