Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King & Matriarch. Author Ferber manipulates her old patterns with practiced ease. Vaughan Melendy, rich and rugged lumber-salmon king, is the spectacular Northwest, and vice versa. "Born into this gargantuan northwest region of giant forests, limitless waters, vast mountains, fertile valleys, he himself blended into the lavish picture and was one with it. . . . He digested it like the benevolent giant...
Katharine Cornell, soulful, dark-eyed U.S. actress, touring European war zones with her oldtime favorite, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, put up at Rome's lavish, fuel-short Grand Hotel, was promptly rated No. 1 on the "bathtub circuit" (hot water morning and afternoon)-a post-occupation honor hitherto conferred on only two other guests: Winston Churchill and General George Catlett Marshall...
...lavish spender, Rose is also a tough bargainer. "Only a sucker," he once remarked of picture-buying, "pays the price asked." Accused of being "slow with a buck," Rose retorted: "Sure, but do you know anybody who is faster with a hundred thousand...
Judging "Sing Out" on its own individual merits, however, and allowing "Oklahoma!" to go its perpetual way, there are some good words to be said. The staging and costumes are not lavish, but they have the far more to be desired beauty of gay simplicity. There is sufficient sparkle and dash to make you forget the mediocre script, and make you remember that you are living in a vigorous land with a heritage of vitality...
...week to witness an important event: the U.S. debut of a famous coloratura soprano. Curiously, the singer had not been near an opera house in almost a decade. To the U.S. public she was known chiefly as the lush blonde whose lighthearted warbling had been the feature of the lavish Hollywood musical The Great Waltz. Her name is Miliza Korjus (pronounced Mlit'sa Kor'-yoos...