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Died. Henri Verne, 68, longtime director of Paris' famed Louvre, who proved that the Mona Lisa, which was recovered after the 1911 theft, was Leonardo Da Vinci's and not one faked by the thief; in Paris. Verne directed the renovation of the museum during the '305, planned the evacuation of the art treasures during World...
...deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...
...Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed the picture "Mousie"; Ella Raines showed a circus scene and signed her middle name, "Fatima"; Elizabeth Taylor titled her self-sculpture "Mona Lizzie...
...from her ivory hower in the Garden Street Eden, Mona N. Lowe '50 peered out from behind her tortoise-shell spectacles and waggled a slide rule provocatively at the CRIMSON reporter. "Men, men all over the place. Men by the dozen, hounding me for my reading notes. I never had so damn much fun in may life," she shrieked...
...jerked at, anyhow-on behalf of the dear, dead days of the two-a-day. More tears are tried for when the two little girls, lonely for their touring parents, turn up for Christmas and are entertained by the whole troupe. Some tension develops when the older daughter (Mona Freeman) falls in love with an adolescent socialite and becomes embarrassed about her cheerfully gaudy parents. But Father & Mother are so thoroughly kind and understanding that no harm and very little drama ever really develops...