Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Comedian Bert Lahr, 45; and ex-Showgirl Mildred Schroeder Robinson Lahr, 27; a son: 7 pounds,11 ounces; in Hollywood...
...Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...
...Showgirl Lydia Hill was the favorite of the Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...
Discovered running a vegetable juice stand at Palm Springs, Calif, were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the late Manhattan gangster Dutch Schultz's lawyer who turned State's evidence on James J. Hines and the Schultz gang, and his redheaded, ex-showgirl wife, Hope Dare. Said Dixie: "All I want is to be left alone. Hope and I want a chance to live...
Died. Jessica ("Jessie") Reed, 43, five-times-married Ziegfeld showgirl and once one of the highest-paid chorines in the world; of pneumonia and anemia; as a charity patient in Chicago's Osteopathic Hospital. Same day her daughter Ann Carroll de Brow won a Texas beauty contest...