Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...
...building will house 1,500 tenants (330 families) in spacious duplexes, all prefabricated and slipped into place like drawers into an empty desk. The outer walls will be mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...
...Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope &. Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...
Although Pan American Airlines recently estimated a profit for the band in a 40 day airborne trip from Mexico City to Rio de Janeiro, band officials are still wary, for the South American trip's financial possibilities are a big gamble...
This time Hope & Crosby are stowaways on a Brazil-bound steamer. Dorothy Lamour is a wealthy maiden in distress, amply surrounded by Gale Sondergaard and associated heavies. Miss Sondergaard, a hypnotist, has Dottie all set to marry a money-hunting louse the moment the boat reaches Rio. One gathers that the menaces are trying to snatch a fortune by this deal, but when the time comes for explanations, Crosby calmly tears up "The Papers" that would make everything clear and says with a leer, "The world must never know...