Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GRACE TREVEY...
Last month a slender, exuberant blonde of 33 sailed from Manhattan with a gold medal around her neck, a Spanish husband in tow and a contract for three operatic performances at London's historic Covent Garden. Grace Moore had won the medal for her cinema performance in One Night of Love. Her Covent Garden contract was signed because Londoners were ready to buy camp stools, wait in line 24 hours for tickets to see and hear this U. S. singer...
...first Bohème Grace Moore received 18 curtain calls. After the second, London bobbies had to link hands to make a path for her from the stage entrance. Grace Moore's third performance, again in La Boheme, was given last week by royal command. Though the King was slightly indisposed at Sandringham, good Queen Mary went to Covent Garden, sat the opera out in the Royal box, smilingly applauded during 15 curtain calls...
...Bailey conviction and jail sentence looked ironclad to laymen, for His Grace had signed assurances to the pawnbrokers that he possessed the jewels pawned, which he did not possess. Was that not fraud? Last week when Manchester's case reached the Court of Criminal Appeal, it was loftily held by Their Lordships that there had been no "intent to defraud" and therefore no fraud by Manchester because His Grace had been advised by lawyers that he did possess the jewels. In quashing the jail sentence, England's Lord Chief Justice said that the Duke of Manchester "seemed...
Mourned His Grace recently: "I had not a care in the world before my second marriage but my position is different now. I am married to a woman who has never owed a penny in her life. She does not understand how one comes to incur debts. I am worried because the Duchess is worried. Otherwise, I would not have a single care in the world." In sombre mood last week His Grace was led out of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, promptly had himself declared bankrupt once more and vanished from London, his lawyers announcing, "The Duke of Manchester is resting...