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...Dancer Betty Compton (Oh, Kay! and Fifty Million Frenchmen), pretty friend of New York's Mayor Walker; was suddenly and secretly married to one Edward Duryea ("Eddie") Dowling some weeks ago. Last week she returned from the Havana honeymoon estranged from her new husband. They had found each other "incompatible" after two days. She planned a trip to California...
...dreams won't come true?" The tour which he intended to be a triumph was a disappointment; it ended in bickering among the Queen and her friend Col. John Carroll, her aide Major Stanley Washburn, San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Adolph Spreckels, and the Queen's elderly friend. Dancer Loie Fuller...
...dozen collections and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...
...immortalized by Photographer Beaton are apparently chosen for their news value, ranging from angular Margot Asquith, homely Poetess Edith Sitwell (posed as a corpse, clutching a bunch of lilies) and Novelist Virginia Woolf (who protested in the London Spectator at being Beatonified without permission) to such obvious subjects as Dancer Tilly Losch, Cinemactress Marion Davies, and Photographer Beaton's two pretty sisters, Baba and Nancy, London debutantes...
Kenton's most amusing son is, of course, Mr. Holtz (Manhattan Mary), who has apparently matriculated solely to make a living for himself and family. Neither a singer nor dancer, Funnyman Holtz?part producer of the show?depends on an infinite dialectal versatility for his comedy, with particular stress laid on the speech and mannerisms of his race. Questioned as to whom he knows in England, breezily says he : "Why, Lady Goldstein, Lord Cornbloom, Archbishop Shapiro . . ." and finding that his restaurant, pressing and trucking businesses are doing well, he inquires: "What's the matter, has Hoover resigned?" Assisting...