Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...
...most unlikely follower in the wake of Lolita is not a literary critic but a superannuated (27) nymphet named Rosemary Ridgewell, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), slithery-blithery onetime Latin Quarter showgirl who wears a gold swizzle stick around her neck and a bubbly smile on her face. Well may she bubble; 17 months ago she "discovered" Lolita when she read excerpts in the Anchor Review and told an acquaintance about it. The acquaintance, now her fast friend: Walter Minton, president of Putnam's. Minton decided to publish the book, now has a major bestseller on his hands...
...Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous round as Rodolfo. The most popular Americans were Texas Soprano Sara Rhodes Hageman, 25, whose Mimi Italians found "delicious," and Manhattan Showgirl-Soprano Marjorie Smith, who was in Most Happy Fella and is now being pursued by Italian film makers...
Looking as if wedded bliss was everything he asked of it, hopeful Crooner Dennis Crosby, 23, son of Old Groaner Bing, avoided the obvious to gaze into the eyes of his Showgirl Bride Pat Sheehan, 26. No sooner had the junior Crosbys taken their vows in Las Vegas, Nev., where Pat, a divorcee, hoofs in a nightclub, than word leaked out in Los Angeles that sometime Telephone Operator Marilyn Scott, 25, as the result of a little unwedded bliss with Dennis, was the mother of a 5½-month-old daughter, whose support has been provided by the Crosby lawyers...
...fetching college freshman of 18, as reported in Playboy, but a fetching high-school senior of 16, and thus, in the eyes of Illinois law, too young to appear unclothed in the public prints. Also charged: Mrs. Cathy Darnell, Elizabeth's 39-year-old mother, an unemployed showgirl...