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Died. Frances Winlock, 21, daughter of Egyptologist Herbert Winlock whom she accompanied into the tomb of TutankhAmen; of tuberculosis, after two years' illness; in Saranac Lake, N. Y.
Meanwhile, however, Frances Langford has sung several, songs and lots of chorus girls have danced all over a roof-garden. Jack Benny has made nasty remarks in his newspaper column, and Buddy Ebsen has danced and clowned and been generally very pleasant.
BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME-Peter Quennell-Viking ($3.50). THE ROMANTIC REBELS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown ($3.50). In July 1811, Byron returned to England from the Near East. He was 23, bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded...
The root of Peter Quennell's analysis is that Byron was bisexual, a theory not developed in Frances Winwar's less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she...
The very, very pretty Betty Lawford is a bit cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a...