Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story which eventually killed operatic pictures-plucking a well-known star off the Metropolitan stage, dousing him in tribulations, and then laboriously and romantically putting him back in the Met-They Shall Have Music takes Heifetz and his fame for granted, never catches him with a movie queen instead of a Stradivarius in his arms...
Belair had been famed as a breeding farm for more than 150 years?since the day in 1747 when its first owner, Governor Samuel Ogle of Maryland, brought with him from England a stallion named Spark and a broodmare named Queen Mab, two of the earliest thoroughbreds ever imported to the U. S.? But in the 29 years that zealous William Woodward has been master of Belair, its name has become far more famed than it ever was under generations of Ogles...
...Pretty Helen Crlenkovich, 18, of San Francisco: the national outdoor three-metre springboard diving championship; nosing out (135.89 points to 133.97 points) 16-year-old, three-time Champion Marjorie Gestring, whom she also dethroned as national indoor queen last winter; in the Birdland Pool, Des Moines, Iowa...
Marriage Revealed. William Robert Bradley, 21, orange-haired Sixth Earl of Craven; and Irene Meyrick, daughter of the late in-and-out-of-jail Mrs. Kate ("Queen of the London Night Clubs") Meyrick. The Earl's gallant, one-legged father caused a newspaper uproar in 1926 by eloping with another earl's wife, Countess ("Moral Turpitude") Cathcart...
...paper, the Times. Famed throughout the Northwest are Smitty's high, fiendish laughter, his admiration for pregnant women ("I love 'em! God, I love 'em"), the hissing gibberish he talks to visiting Japanese dignitaries, his bounding glandular energy. To get a picture of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Smitty grabbed the royal thigh and held the Queen in her automobile. To get a picture of Rachmaninoff he played Chopsticks on the master's piano until he gave up and posed. To Schumann-Heink he said: "Show your teeth, mamma...