Word: berthas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just after 10 one morning last week, Mrs. Mary S. Dempsey, 38, and Mrs. Bertha E. Johnston, 53, teed off down the tree-lined seventh fairway of the Timuquana Country Club at Jacksonville. At the same time, at the nearby Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Ensign Charles L. Greenwood took off in a Corsair fighter on a training mission...
...third act which I considered the high-point of the evening. Here the authoress did her impressions of four characters immortalized in the posters of Toulouse Lautree, "La Goulue," "A Lion Tamer," "Deaf Bertha," and the magnificent Yvette Gilbert. While these impressions lacked the humorous twists of the earlier ones, they seemed to be fuller, more human. The women here were dressed exactly as they appear in the famous posters, and it would be difficult if not impossible for the uninformed observer to tell that they were being played by the same person...
Rank Amateur. In Oakland, Calif., the shore patrol arrested Bertha Watson for impersonating a WAC, after noting that she wore a colonel's eagle on one shoulder, a general's star on the other...
Married. Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, 19, "Miss United Nations of 1946" and daughter of Norway's Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne; and Physicist John Howard Coleman, 25; in Washington...
Died. A. H. ("Al") Woods (real name: Aladore Herman), 81, who made and lost several fortunes as producer of hundreds of Broadway and road shows, ranging from early-century corn (Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl) to naughty jazz-age farces (The Demi-Virgin) to hit plays (The Green Hat, with Katharine Cornell; The Trial of Mary Dugan, with Ann Harding) ; in Manhattan...