Word: monica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last leg of the run from Los Angeles. It was 5:40 a.m., and Chicago was only 148 miles away. On an adjoining track, also Chicago-bound, the slower Kansas City Chief clicked along at a modest 65. In both trains, as they raced side by side near Monica, Ill., dawn and restlessness had prodded light sleepers into wakefulness. Washrooms were crowded with women prettying their faces and men shaving...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Admitted to a Santa Monica, Calif, hospital for a minor operation, Japan's Shirley ("The Grable of the Orient") Yamaguchi, 24, who had come to Hollywood to learn how to make love, American style, gave the lowdown on love in Japan: "Since the G.I.s came to Japan they have introduced many new customs such as to kiss and smooch and hold each other's neck...
...Before breakfast at his home on the beachfront in Santa Monica, Zanuck begins a chain-smoking day with one of his eight-inch cigars-the first of 20-and a phone call on his private wire to the studio to find out how movies-his own and competitors'-are grossing around the country. After a shave by Sam ("The Barber") Silver, who comes out from the studio, Zanuck drives his green Cadillac ten miles to the lot, attacks production schedules, mail, memos and telegrams until 1 p.m. Then he takes a sawed-off polo mallet, which he uses...
Except during the summer, when he bakes himself to a burnished mahogany on Santa Monica's beach, he weekends at his Palm Springs estate, 100 miles from Los Angeles, where the Zanucks usually entertain 12 to 16 guests. Among the regulars: Elsa Maxwell, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, the Louis Jourdans, the Reginald Gardiners, Clifton Webb, Agents Charles Feldman and Fefe Ferry...