Word: brenda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl who has attracted universal attention and could just as easily count the sands on the seashore or the stars in the heavens as calculate the number of her admirers, is here in Nassau--and coming here she is home, for she is none other than Brenda Frazier, granddaughter of Lady Williams-Taylor...
...never arrives. The best sketches-satires on Eleanor Roosevelt, parlor games, rabid Wagnerians-are full of fun but not really funny. The best lyrics trip off the tongue but do not lodge in the mind. The performers are gay and bright but, except for Author Hamilton and Brenda Forbes, have no more individuality than a buck private's uniform...
...Nassau with her daughter, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Cafe Society's No. 1 glamor girl, Mrs. Frederic Watriss declared: "Certainly Brenda, likes being popular. So do I. We all love it. There is no problem to being the mother of a popular deb. It is the mothers of the others I'm sorry for. It must be awful to be the mother of a flop...
...approved New York's tabloid Daily News, as well it might. Mrs. Watriss' precautions frustrated the photographers of every paper in town except one. The irrepressible Daily News came out with the whole business- Brenda greeting Elsa Maxwell, Brenda & mother greeting billowy Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, even Brenda being kissed by an unknown youth-all over the front page and across a centre spread...
...fear Brenda's being spoiled," disapproved her paternal grandaunt, Mrs. Ida Spear of Boston. "I bemoan all this spectacular notoriety...