Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What should a woman do when her husband begins to desert her for a showgirl? There are many attempted solutions to this problem which provides the plot for "Journal of a Crime" at the Paramount and Fenway Theatres. Ruth Chatterton could be expected to appear only in that drama where the solution was "a desperate act." It is not fitting that she should adopt the simple formula of Dorothy Dix--"give your husband a little something to worry about." Miss Chatterton seizes a solution that would command the hearty approval of Oswald Spengler--she pulls the trigger on her rival...
Sued for Divorce. By Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 33, eldest son of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, nephew of the Duke of Westminster; Lady Ashley (Louise Sylvia Hawkes), onetime showgirl, onetime dress model with whom he eloped seven years ago; in London. Charge: misconduct. Named corespondent: travel-loving Douglas Fairbanks Sr. from whom Gladys Mary Smith Pickford is currently seeking divorce...
Married. Albert Russel Erskine Jr., 25. Chicago advertising man, son of the Studebaker Corp. president who died by his own hand last summer (TIME, July 10); and Florence Meredith Howard, 24, showgirl; in Manhattan...
...away. A man rushed up to hand Mr. Roosevelt a long telegram. The President- elect started to read- Bang! Joe Zangara was standing up on a wobbly bench among the spectators firing his pistol at President-elect Roosevelt not 35 ft. away. The first shot dropped Margaret Kruis, Newark showgirl, with a head wound...
Married. Gilbert Wolff Kahn, 29, banker son of Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, divorced husband of Anna Elizabeth Whelan Kahn, cigar store heiress; and Sara Jane Heliker, 22, Manhattan showgirl who last month quit Take a Chance at the groom's ultimatum; in Manhattan...