Word: rave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started as a conventional, long-haired concert violinist. After fiddling for five years as a concert side show to the late, great Enrico Caruso, Cugat settled in Los Angeles, where he made a high-toned debut as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When the critics failed to rave, Cugat gave up the violin in disgust, took a job as a cartoonist on the Los Angeles Times...
High spot of the show is fat Movie Director Alfred Hitchcock's tiny 13-year-old daughter Pat who, never having been on a professional stage before, won rave notices for the delightful way she carried off her enormous role. Pat has no desire for a movie career but wants to be a "struggling artist" and live in a theatrical boarding house...
...Rita"-the latest to be ground out of the Shubert revival mill. Like warmed-over carrot pudding they are never so good as at the original scrving, but the old always come back for a nostalgic second and the young to see what their elders used to rave about. "Rio Rita" serves these twin motives neither better nor worse than its predecessors...
Married. Martha Rave, 25, cavern-mouthed cinemasinger; and Neal Lang, 38, Florida hotelkeeper; she for the third time; in Las Vegas...
...star who really strutted her antique stuff was Mae Murray. Her platinum blondness and pouting "bee-stung" lips first got rave notices in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. One of the wildest waltzes in cinema history was her fling with John Gilbert in The Merry Widow in 1925. Since then she has fluctuated between a fortune of $3,000,000 and, she claims, nights on a park bench...