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...hand to award the prizes was full-blown Eleanor Holm Rose, perennial backstroke champion from 1928 to 1936. Said she: "It seems funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pool Sharks | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Bursting with pride and conjugal affection, brash little Broadwayman Billy Rose proclaimed that, his New York World's Fair Aquacade ended, its vivid, dark-eyed queen, Eleanor Holm Jarrett Rose, would "retire and run our home." Trilled Aquabelle Eleanor: "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed I woke up and my maid said, 'Your bath is ready. And I just laughed and told her, 'I'm never going to get in the water again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Smart, ambitious little Billy Rose has spent most of his 40 years writing songs, producing shows, collecting money and curvesome Swimmer Eleanor Holm, whom he married after a divorce from Fanny Brice. Last week Showman Rose revealed himself as a collector of art. Mr. Rose has some 20 canvases, mostly Old Masters, which he began buying a year aro to hang in his house on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Rose Collects | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Sally Rand's Nude Ranch, Clifford Fischer's Les Folies Bergère, and other popular holdovers from last year; the new America! Cavalcade of a Nation, a historical pageant of the U. S., and Billy Rose's Aquacade, a west coast edition, without Eleanor Holm but with equally shapely Aquabelle Esther Williams and 50,000 gallons more water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Cut-Rate Golden Gate | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Fair of 1915, the Paris Fair of 1925, and the Chicago Century of Progress, the new Rose-colored spectacle has much more varied costumes, provides snatches of old tunes, glimpses of past gaiety. By pairing up Waterlulu Eleanor Holm with handsome Swimmer Buster Crabbe, instead of Aqua-caveman Johnny Weissmuller, Rose added oomph to their big aquatic waltz. The water scenes gain from the use of fountains and a "curtain" of shimmering spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old and New Show in Queens | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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