Word: glorias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Many Sides of Mickey Rooney (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Gloria De Haven and Joey Forman pitch in to help The Mick recall his career-from pint-sized kid star to pop-off adult...
Since then, Trenton-born Gussie Seit, better known as Gloria Lane, has all but adopted the role of Carmen, and Milan's La Scala has adopted Gussie. Last week fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Lane demonstrated what it is about her favorite role that makes Latin blood rise...
...comparatively brief operatic career, 29-year-old Mezzo Lane has made something of a specialty of dying gracefully. The daughter of an immigrant Russian harnessmaker, she heard her first music in a Trenton synagogue where her father was baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens, after she won a Y.M.H.A. amateur contest singing Let Yourself Go. She abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like...
...love Alice Marie," pleaded Richard Combs, 25, a husky sheet-metal worker of Old Bridge, N.J. But the plea was not enough for New Jersey's Board of Child Welfare. Last week, in the state's second highest court, the board moved to deny Gloria and Dick Combs's dearest desire-to adopt their foster child, a gay, elfin four-year-old. The board's reason: Alice Marie, according to social workers, is too bright to remain in the Combses' "television-centered" household...
...state practically classifies us as TV morons," countered Dick Combs angrily. "We watch it maybe two hours a night, three or four times a week." His favorites: Gunsmoke, Paladin, sports events ("Am I supposed to be ashamed of that?"). Said Gloria Combs proudly: "I was valedictorian of my graduating class at Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School, and I was on the honor roll straight through." The Combses promptly put up a book shelf in the living room, stocked it with an encyclopedia, books on child care, and such eclectic volumes as International Atomic Policy and How We Drafted Adlai...