Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony over, there will be a dash for cars to join the 700 other guests under a spacious striped awning on the Du Pont lawn, eight miles away. Jimmy Duffy, favorite saloonkeeper of Philadelphia's younger drinking set, will pour with his celebrated efficiency. Meyer Davis' orchestra will play the bride and bridegroom's favorite dance numbers, Too Marvelous for Words, Tea for Two, The Lovebug will Bite You and Night and Day. Some time during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn...
Chairman Eaton has spared no expense to beautify his Park. At the foot of Mount Forest Lawn is an enormous marble group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with...
...Glendale and Forest Lawn patrolmen kept the public well out of sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read...
Twenty years ago Forest Lawn was a debt-ridden, unprepossessing necropolis. Hubert Eaton, a realtor and onetime mining engineer, was assigned to manage it. He was immediately struck by the ugliness of its tombstones, by the fact that most cemeteries are "unsightly stoneyards, full of inartistic symbols and depressing customs." Mr. Eaton placed a ban on stones, substituting bronze markers laid flush with the grass. He forsook the word "cemetery" for more euphonious Memorial Park. Today under his chairmanship it has expanded to 200 acres, contains in one form or another the dust of some 55,000 humans, with room...
...Forest Lawn's first funeral chapel was the Little Church of the Flowers, a quarter-mile downhill from the Wee Kirk. When asked in 1923 if a marriage might be performed in the Little Church, Chairman Eaton replied, "Why not?" Since then 7,000 nuptials have taken place, to the increasing distaste of Southern California ministers, in that church and in the Wee Kirk which was built in 1929 as a copy of the Scottish church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres in the Little Church of the Flowers but there have been no cinemarriages...