Word: glorias
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...fitting was "The Cathedral of Motion Pictures." As the cathedral's doors opened, 125 special policemen held back the mobs that strained for a look at their flicker favorites. Among the 6,000 first-nighters were New York's Mayor Jimmy Walker, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson, star of the cathedral's first attraction, The Love of Sunya. As the audience settled back in the plush mohair seats, an actor in a monk's robe appeared on stage, spread his arms and said: "Let there be light." With his words, the audience rose...
...star, tempestuous Actress Sarah Churchill, 45, who had not trod the West End boards for twelve years, got a good hand. The play sounded as if it had been slapped together in six weeks on a borrowed typewriter (it was) by a would-be actress turned playwright (Gloria Russell, 22) to settle -the earth-shaking matter of what happens when a gynecologist impregnates his wife and his mistress at roughly the same time. The best notice for Sarah, who played the philanderer's wife, came from the London Daily Express, which found it "good to see her back...
...past year's chosen few: Britain's Princess Alexandra, Nicole Alphand (wife of France's ambassador to the U.S.), Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing the list: Rome...
Should the Corporation adopt the suggestions of these professors, may I humbly suggest that the motto of the University be changed from "Veritas" to "Sic Transit Gloria Universities." Robert Lee Behrens...
...Married. Gloria Davy, 28, Brooklyn-born Negro soprano who made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Aida; and Herman Penningsfield Jr., 28, Swiss financier; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bridgeport, Conn...