Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After almost a half century on the boards, oldtime Showgirl Sophie Tucker finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with...
Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...
Palm Beach was titillated by the off-again-on-again marriage plans of Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52-year-old heir of motor millions, who recently settled $1,000,000 on wife No. 4 so that he could take No. 5, ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood, 26. One of the reported spats occurred around vichyssoise time at lunch one day, when Gregg dropped the word that she had imported a Manhattan pressagent to help spread the tidings of her forthcoming wedding. This spoiled lunch for Horace, who fumed, "What am I, a dancer? I want publicity?" But on Valentine...
Most Damnable. The British also reacted haughtily about Lydia Hill, the English showgirl the Sultan met in London's Grosvenor House in 1934. He brought Lydia to Johore with a flashing diamond on her left hand, but the British sahibs refused to accept her. The Sultan's reply: he ordered his gardeners to plant shrubs all over the sahibs' golf course, which was, after all, his own property. In time, the Sultan sent her back to England, and there Lydia was killed in an air raid in the act of buying a fur coat. The Sultan...
...Runyon characters and wrapped them up according to ordinary musical formula. This is, however, one slight twist: instead of two men chasing a girl, there are two girls after a fidgety bookie, called Brain Foster (Scott Brady). Virtue, of course, triumphs in the end and Mitzi Gaynot as a showgirl managers to win the doublin reward of marrying Foster, but not without several chases in which the ubiquitous bloodhounds play a conspicuous part...