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Reported Dead. Lina Cavalieri, 69, beauteous, thrice-married soprano of Caruso's day; in an air raid on Florence, Italy. It was on the occasion of her profitable divorce from the late eccentric Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler that his late eccentric brother John Armstrong Chaloner sent him the famed telegram: "Who's loony...
Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...
Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
Deathless Deer was nine months old. Joe Patterson himself had fondly named her. She was the only new comic strip he had bought in nine years. The Deer herself was a beauteous Egyptian princess who in the fourth installment suffered death, then awakened 3,000 years later in a U.S. museum. From there she fared forth to undergo some of the dullest adventures ever seen in a comic strip...
...what surprised youngish musicians was the fact that beauteous Lillian Russell was also obviously a woman of voice. She took her high notes with operatic aplomb, turned her phrases with the delicacy of a diva. There was even a hint in the recording of the lump in Lillian's throat which she frequently got when she sang this particular song. That catch in the throat had a history...