Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice from across the border did complain. The objection came from strait-laced Avery Brundage, president of the U.S. Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this was different: why should he run to fellow members of the International Olympic Committee with grievances that did not concern his own team? (He also complained that Barbara Ann had accepted jewelry...
Vera-Ellen, daughter of American-born Anne Revere and Costa Rican Coffee Planter J. Carrol Naish, is slated to marry 100% Costa Rican Cesar Romero. But Romero wants to marry American Comedienne Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen falls for Romero's American friend, Dick Haymes. All of this becomes involved enough to last for nearly two fiesta-flurried hours because the young people are slow about telling their parents-and each other-the bad news...
...touching than most ingenues manage even in nonmusicals. Singer Dick Haymes also plays his role for a good deal more than an excuse to break into song. Miss Revere and Messrs. Naish and Romero are much more human, too, than musical films are supposed to require; and Celeste Holm adds a welcome dash of lemon juice...
Sweethearts (book by Harry B. Smith & Fred De Gresac, with revisions by John Cecil Holm; music & lyrics by Victor Herbert & Robert B. Smith; produced by Paula Stone & Michael Sloane) emerges after 33 years as a vehicle-a sort of quaint old hearse-for Bobby Clark. It belongs to the Balkan Age of operetta, when princes wooed village maids who eventually turned out to be princesses in disguise, and the most personal and private crises were resolved in the village square...
When the 1,248 passengers of the Gripsholm debarked in Manhattan last week, a day late, after eleven stormy days on the midwinter North Atlantic, it would have been a brave man who greeted them with such a wheeze. It had been a voyage that the Grips holm's burly, sympathetic physician, Dr. Hans Ribbing, would like to forget. During the rough passage, he had dispensed 10,000 seasickness pills; one day had had 500 visitors to the sick...