Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moderately sane people don't go to the movies to learn anything, least of all in history. Therefore, if a show is good entertainment, it is little short of pedantry to inquire into its authenticity. "The Gorgeous Hussy" may be the acme of historical precision, or it may be almost pure fiction. The latter possibility is, of course, the more likely. But 90% of the audience, including the Crimson Moviegoer, don't care, and 99%, again including said reviewer, don't know...
...roof of the Hotel Bradofrd, presenting the Ziegfeld Follies star, Jena Sargent, in the aristocrat of floor shows "Autumn Days." Fifty gorgeous "Boots McKenna girls" are dazzling. Seven course diner, $1.50. Never a cover charge. For reservations call...
...Penthouse--Tommy Maren's extra vanaganza on the roof of the Hotel Bradford. A gorgeous floor show with no cover charge...
Ramona (Twentieth Century-Fox). The cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography...
...tombstones. Graves are marked by $50 copper plates level with the ground above the body. Mr. Eaton, who operates a funeral parlor on his grounds, discourages ground burials, recommends incineration in his crematory, inurnment and safekeeping in his columbarium. Above all, he prefers interment in a crypt of his gorgeous, statue-decked mausoleum. A refined selling point: Before a casket is sealed into a Forest Lawn crypt its lid is raised and a current of conditioned air is perpetually circulated through the crypt...