Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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śLast week Betty Compton, musicomedy actress and good friend of Mayor Walker's, left the cast of Fifty Million Frenchmen at Glasgow, went to Harrogate, 200 mi. from London.
In the finals, Mrs. Moody's opponent was Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But...
Mrs. Moody, who has not lost a set in singles competition since 1927, received the Championship Cup, which she had not tried for last year, for the seventh time, denied renewed rumors that she would turn professional. Next day, Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, paired with Betty Nuthall, won the U.S. Women...
The first day, her fingernails red and shiny as her racket strings, Helen Wills Moody played Phyllis Mudford. In a match against Mrs. Moody, almost every woman player looks as inefficient as Mrs. Moody would look if she were playing one of the top ten men. She netted one shot...
The U. S. needed one more match and got it the next day when Helen Jacobs, wearing a transparent skirt and an intermittent frown, chopped and drove at Phyllis Mudford's weak backhand till she won, 6-4, 6-2. The match between Helen Moody and Betty Nuthall was...