Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's most prominent serious-minded U. S. dancer is a slim, dark-haired woman named Martha Graham, who 15 years ago left a job with the Greenwich Village Follies to try her foot at higher-browed steps. Ex-Showgirl Graham's first serious show was given in 1926 in Manhattan's 48th Street Theatre, backed by $11.25 which she had saved. A deficit of more than that would have sent her back to the Follies. The box office made a profit ($2) and Martha went...
...Showgirl Lois Andrew Jessel, 16, four-month wife of thrice-married Stagester George Jessel, 42, planned a family of five or six children: "We won't have our first for a year, not until we get to know each other really. We're in love, deeply in love, but we need to get acquainted...
Divorced. Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, 50, urbane slick-haired son of the late dic tator; by fledgling Cinemactress-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 20; in Chicago; after a twelve-week marriage. Her complaint: Gomez slapped her "slightly" on two occasions...
Married. Auto Scion Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40; and Showgirl Martha ("Mickey") Devine, 27, who once socked Primo Carnera in a Paris night club; he for the third time, she for the first; in Baltimore...
Married. Comedian George Jessel, 42, onetime husband of Norma Talmadge and Florence Courtney; and Showgirl Lois Andrew, 16 and an inch or two taller than he; by a judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...