Word: cecelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention by lamenting in a voice of deepest vulgarity the many servants in her family's old home, calling God to witness her misery now that she has "lost her voice and her French." Evelyn Varden in this play does it better than most actresses could. As Cecelia Jobes, she drills into her three daughters the idea that the sex act is an abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working hard, saving their money so that they can all go to Hollywood one day and be rich and famed. Daughter Violet, after...
Last week Variety, famed theatrical weekly which long frowned upon this type of quasi-naked performance, took cognizance of the importance of the burlesque stripper by sending Cecelia Ager, its star woman reporter, to interview the highest paid, best-known stripper in Burlesque. The navel of svelte Italianate Anne Corio is as well known to a large section of the public as the nose of Jimmy Durante...
Died. Richard D. Wyckoff, 64. stock market authority, founder and onetime editor of the Magazine of Wall Street, editor of Stock Market Technique; of heart disease; in Sacramento. Thrice married, Mr. Wyckoff charged in 1928 that his second wife, Cecelia G. Wyckoff, present publisher of the Magazine of Wall Street, had wrested control of it from him by "cajolery." In a subsequent separation agreement both received half a million dollars of the company's bonds...
Married. Hyrum, 73, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; to his neighbor, Mrs. Hannah Lyle Chapman, 37; by Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Bishop Edward L. Solomon; in Salt Lake City. Father Dempsey divorced Mrs. Cecelia Dempsey, mother of "Jack," in 1919; married Lottie Dexter Blasingame in 1924, was divorced by her five months later. Said Mother Dempsey to inquiring reporters: "None of the public's business when we were divorced, if we ever were divorced. I don't care what he does. That's his business...
...side wall. Then Ruth Hall of Philadelphia, runnerup in the finals last year and sister of J. Gilbert Hall, No. 13 ranking U. S. lawn tennis player, put out Mrs. Adams, 15?4, 15?8. 18?17. She went into the finals against her 16-year-old friend Cecelia Bowes, also from Philadelphia. The first game was fairly close until Miss Hall became sure of what Cecelia Bowes was going to do in any situation. She ran it out, 15?10, then whacked her strong backhand for all it was worth to win the second, 16?13. Young Miss Bowes...