Word: monica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lavish, enormous Santa Monica, Calif, beach house of ex-Film Star Marion Davies he talked with friends, read congratulatory messages, played his daily hour of tennis. (Hearst tennis compares unfavorably with that of Octogenarian King Gustaf V of Sweden: no one ever keeps score; Hearst covers the court only to arm's length each way and it is taken for granted that the ball must be hit within his reach.) Birthday dinner guests were Marion Davies, four Hearst sons and their wives, a handful of Hearst publishers, Movie Columnist Louella Parsons, ex-Georgian Prince David Mdivani, Film Actor Arthur...
Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...
Champion Ned Day has practically retired from tournament play. In partnership with Comedian Harold Lloyd (Hollywood's best bowler) and onetime Champion Hank Marino, Day operates a profitable "bowling establishment" at Santa Monica, Calif., within earshot of Douglas Aircraft war workers. But to help swell the gate receipts of this year's All-Star Bowling Tournament (for the benefit of Chicago's Service Men's Center), Champion Day was persuaded to defend his title once more before entering the Navy -not only against Challenger Crimmins but against the ten highest scorers among the 100 All-Star...
...Santa Monica, Calif...
...Some girls flirt at work. Douglas Aircraft (about 25% of whose employes are now women) had to close its Santa Monica plant's bomb shelter with heavy tar paper (to be broken in case of a real air raid) because swing-shift couples found it too handy for lovemaking during lunch...