Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skelton pantomimes help keep the film amusing while enough bathing beauties for a dozen aquacades parade across the celluloid. Not to be outdone by competitors, MGM has called on Xavier Cugat and Harry James to supply the music, which is by far the best part of the movie...
...Xavier Pruszynski's Russian Year, a brilliantly written travel book, includes a notable account of Russia's revolting treatment of the 2,000,000 Poles interned in the Soviet area after the German-Russian Pact. A 37-year-old journalist assigned to the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Pruszynski was there when General Sikorski arrived to negotiate with Stalin for their release. Pruszynski's observation is keen, his humor quick and spontaneous. Russian Year is possibly the best firsthand report on Russia since the war began...
Brown spends a good deal more of his money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...
Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...