Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Separation. Arthur Marcus Loew, 38, vice president and general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one-time son-in-law of Adolph Zukor; by Barbara Mae Smith Loew, 25. onetime showgirl; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: He treated her like a child, humiliated her before servants, called her a killjoy, drank excessively, abandoned her at parties, allowed women to put makeup on his face, pinched her dog, harassed her canary. Mrs. Loew asked $3,000 per month maintenance, $25,000 for counsel fees, $2.500 for special costs. Mr. Loew: "Preposterous...
Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face...
...little Ramage; to the middle-aged carpenter's wife whose baby, after an agonizing labor, was born dead (it would have had no silver rattle in any case); to rich, ugly Dorothy, whose hen brain mercifully was unable to tell her how miserable she was; to the Junoesque showgirl who had capped her career by marrying a faithful goose and finding him such a swan that she proudly concurred in naming their first-born "Shakespeare"; to aging Aunt Juliette, the Edwardian grande dame, wondering not if flirting had been wrong but if flirting was all; to Nurse Forbes, whose...
...Manhattan restaurant one morning last week three people sat breakfasting on highballs. They were Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, 40, a Roman Catholic priest; Joseph Lieb Steinmetz, 22, a Jew turned Presbyterian theology student; and Mrs. Steinmetz, 17, a minor showgirl whom he had married a fortnight before. The three had met casually the night before. From the restaurant they returned to the Knights of Columbus Club Hotel and the Steinmetz room where another bottle of whiskey was consumed. When Steinmetz began feeling groggy, Father Leonard suggested he lie down. He heard the priest say to his wife...
...Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department, a police...