Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk o' the Heather, a nondenominational shrine in the nation's most extraordinary cemetery, which has become, in the last decade, the Valhalla of the cinema business...
...Glendale and Forest Lawn patrolmen kept the public well out of sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read...
Forest Lawn's first funeral chapel was the Little Church of the Flowers, a quarter-mile downhill from the Wee Kirk. When asked in 1923 if a marriage might be performed in the Little Church, Chairman Eaton replied, "Why not?" Since then 7,000 nuptials have taken place, to the increasing distaste of Southern California ministers, in that church and in the Wee Kirk which was built in 1929 as a copy of the Scottish church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres in the Little Church of the Flowers but there have been no cinemarriages...
...Dudley Kirk, Claremont, California, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy '35, assistant and tutor in Sociology; Logan Wilson, Huntsville, Texas, Texas '27, assistant and tutor in Sociology; Alexander R. Troiano '31, Boston, assistant in Metallurgy; Jack E. McKee, Knoxville, Tennessee, Carnegie Tech '36, assistant in Sanitary Engineering...
Where the first race had been a case of no fight forth lead the Eliot-Kirk-land battle that was to follow was a thriller, with Winthrop, third in this event, out of the running most...