Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived in a Spanish mansion, bathed in a jade-green tub, slept in a bed which was eight feet square, and was courted by many handsome men. She had been impatient with her good home in Mexico and with San Antonio's Convent of Our Lady of the Lake, where she was instructed in the duties of womanhood. But although she lived in Hollywood for 17 years and changed the color of her hair, she could never forget that she was really Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos. Last week this fact proved fatal...
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Philharmonic, Antal Dorati conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). Not the Swan Lake score familiar to U.S. ballet audiences, but a somewhat different selection of items from Tchaikovsky's original ballet which once enthralled St. Petersburg balletomanes and is now the favorite of Muscovites. Suave, tuneful Tchaikovsky. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
Married. Veronica Lake, 25, cascade-haired cinemactress; and Andre de Toth, 31, Hungarian-born cinema director (Dark Waters); she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
...Hackett, who knows only too well that, "spending Christmas in a mud filled foxhole surrounded, by death is no holiday," is looking forward to his first Christmas at home in two years in the southern Wisconsin lake country...
...secret of Rose's success is that whatever he produces makes a good story long before it makes a good show. Jumbo promised to bring the circus to the theater, and Carmen Jones the opera (in blackface, too). The first Aquacade, in Cleveland ("I'll use Lake Erie for a stage and Canada as a backdrop"), was going to turn a swimming meet into a musicomedy. The second Aquacade, at the New York World's Fair, starred Eleanor Holm, whom -just as soon as Fanny Brice divorced him-Rose was going to marry...