Word: valentina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Red Skelton, 33, slap-happy radio and cinema comic, and ex-Starlet Georgia Maureen Davis, 25, his second wife (No. 1, Edna Borzage, is still his manager): their first child, a girl; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Valentina Marie. Weight...
...became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired. On top of that, his pretty wife (played by Valentina Serova, Playwright Simonov's wife) prepares to leave him in a climactic scene (see cut) and he is dispossessed. But in a concluding soliloquy, Smith reassures the audience-he will not hang himself. His honesty unsullied, he will start life all over again, fighting for a better America. Whether...
...stage, it was Lily Pons wearing diamonds and emeralds, and singing in Valentina-designed costumes, one of which showed her navel. A detective stood in the wings, guarding the jewels. In the audience, a gem-barnacled first-nighter, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, was watched over by a gun-toting bodyguard, but managed to lose a bracelet...
...favorite role, Lakmé. Last week Pons fans were surprised to see that her once-frail body had plumped up to 114 lbs., was suntanned to the right shade for her Indian role. From India she had returned with twelve saris (wraparound Hindu dresses), six of which Dressmaker Valentina wrapped into costumes for Lakmé. Sharing Lily's backstage dressing room were three long-haired Tibetan dogs named Wah-ping, Shun-lo and Gobi (who recently made an appearance with Lotte Lehmann in a San Francisco performance of Der Rosenkavalier). Pons was not disturbed when critics panned Lakm...
...sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...