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But fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting...
By dint of this wild thinking, and because she lived in what may become known as the era of American brassiere-worship, Frances Lillian Mary Ridste became a motion-picture star.
"All Girl All the Time." But Carole Landis was still Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, a lovely torso, not an actress-generous, shrewd, unstable. Walter Winchell described her in the adolescent and gritty language of Broadway: "She was ... All Girl all the time."
"Dearest Mommie." But she was recklessly in love again-this time with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote...
* Named by her mother, who had been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the U.S. later, W.C.T.U. President Frances Elizabeth Willard persuaded Eva Booth to assume the fuller, more formal name Evangeline.