Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Groom Wore Spurs (Fidelity; Universal-International) tries to poke fun at a singing cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) who is a bit of a stinker, fears horses and cannot sing. Though the idea seems worth a farce, it is clumsily turned, geared to a creaky romance (involving Ginger Rogers as a lawyer) and powered by melodramatic nonsense. The joke proves to be not so much on western heroes as on Hollywood farceurs...
...bold bridegroom of Crete came up for trial last week. Although mustachioed Constantine Kephaloyannis had capped his spectacular kidnaping of Tassoula Petracogeorgi last August (TIME, Sept. 4) by marrying her in a lonely monastery on fabled Mount Ida, Tassoula's father was not appeased. He had the groom thrown in jail...
Jupiter's philandering is the theme of "Out of This World." The immediate object of his desire is a young American girl named Holen, the newly-wed wife of a magazine writer. On his father's orders, Mercury brings the bride and groom to a Grecian inn near Mt. Olympus, where Jupiter goes to work. By disguising himself as her husband, he finally seduces the young lady in what may be called a furious first-act climax...
...groom runs a grocery store on Main Street and is a steady patron of our advertising columns. He has a good line of bargains this week. All summer he paid two cents more for butter than any other store in town...
...celebrate his daughter's wedding more than four years ago, Bernard Glagovsky invited 320 guests to drink champagne and dance in the main ballroom of Boston's Bradford Hotel. Many of the guests had never met the bride & groom before, and were invited only because they were customers of Glagovsky's Haverhill Shoe Novelty Co. (bows, buckles and ornaments). After Glagovsky paid the $9,200 wedding bill, he decided that $6,245 of it was a tax deductible item as an "ordinary and necessary advertising expense of the corporation...