Word: xaviere
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...before her younger sisters. Fred Astaire, a momentarily unemployed Yankee hoofer, gets mixed up in it and, against Father's wishes, walks off with both a job and Rita. These complications are set to smooth music by Jerome Kern, which is served up, with whipped cream, by Xavier Cugat. Hoofer Astaire sings two tunes aptly enough to raise one of Bing Crosby's sleepy eyebrows, conducts Miss Hayworth through a lush nocturnal duet...
...picture was originally called Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, after Isabel Scott Rorick's book, which has sold 25,000 copies. Audiences at sneak previews showed that the title meant nothing to them; many asked: "Where's Xavier...
...person they referred to was hawk-nosed Bandleader Xavier Cugat, who claims that he is the only Mr. Cugat in the U.S., and sued the publishers, Houghton Mifflin, for using his name. The publishers were sufficiently impressed with his claim to settle his suit out of court. Paramount, too, paid up promptly, then changed the picture's title...
Represented at the conference were the University of Chicago, Loyola, Northwestern, De Pauw, Lake Forest, St. Xavier, Rosary, Barat, North Park, Mundelein, National College of Education, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Central YMCA College...
...morning of Halloween, a grizzled old (73) French-Canadian prospector named Francois Xavier Gallant borrowed a friend's automobile, drove to Creighton (pop. 2,000), got busy with ax and compass. As the sun went down, he walked into the recorder's office, registered eight mining claims to 320 acres of land. Part of it was dotted with Creighton houses...