Word: marinas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Born. To Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 33, chichi Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"), and second wife Elizabeth Darrah Waters Loiewski-Cassini, 21, blonde ex-model: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Marina. Weight...
Luxury Liner (MGM) floats Metro's musical stock company in a welter of romantic complications which could be followed only with a navigation chart. The tangles are slowly and rather painfully unsnarled to the accompaniment of songs by Lauritz Melchior, Marina Koshetz and young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot...
...Story. On the high reaches of the marble cliffs that separate the towns on the Marina River from rural Campagna live two brothers who have abandoned worldly affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then...
...showing its teeth and seeming to invite entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them is to be seen the curling savoury smoke of their banquets." And when the Chief Ranger has conquered the peoples along the Marina, a dirge is heard in the town...