Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy Manville, Manhattan's silver souvenir of the trivial '20s, took another wife-his fifth. The bride was Bonita Francine Edwards, 22, a blonde showgirl whom 47-year-old Manville had met four days before. "Long engagements may be out of style," said the groom to the press, "but we're glad we waited till we were sure." The bride said frankly: "I'm not in love with Tommy-I'm just infatuated. I hope to fall in love with him after a while...
Betty Compton Walker, English, ex-showgirl ex-wife of ex-May or Jimmy Walker, applied for U.S. citizenship after five years here...
...bedroom mantel in Hollywood, prepared to live with the ashes of his brother, Major James, who left Carroll his $10,000 estate with the stipulations: 1) that his ashes be kept in the bedroom, 2) that one-third of the estate be handed over to ex-Showgirl Josie Posie De Forrest. The brother's will explained of the ashes, "It may be possible that I will be able to listen in on conversations even though I am just ashes"; of Josie Posie, "After all our battles and loving in 1925, she is certainly entitled...
Born. To Comedian George Jessel, 43, and ex-Showgirl Lorrain Gourley ("Lois Andrew") Jessel, 17: a daughter, Jerilynn, 6 Ib. 12 oz.; in Hollywood...
...before he went off to jail for ten years for tax evasion, tall, bald "Nucky" Johnson got married. The 58-year-old political boss of Atlantic City for three decades took as his bride ex-Showgirl Florence Osbeck, 33. ≤≤ Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Texas' Senator-elect W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, married Oilman Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23, in the executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife...