Word: gorgeousity
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...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...
...principal surprise is Joan Blondell as an exotic lady who is backing shows to utilize publicity she got by shooting her husband. In gorgeous negligees she spends her time pursuing Randall, moping about her subconscious, and uttering lines like "Gentlemen, no X-rays. I'm not well enough for pictures...
...second part of his speech-and the most powerful in emotional content-is a really gorgeous exhortation. It is filled with quotable sentences. The next edition of Bartlett's book of quotations may have several lines from this Philadelphia speech. As for instance, This generation has a rendezvous with destiny or Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference...