Word: cobina
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...gallantry in action. British too and important to any fashion scout is Designer Norman Hartnell, whose sweeping formal evening gowns are highly favored by long-limbed British peeresses. Despite his name, Designer Mainbocher was born in Chicago, worked for a long time as pianist for Night Club Singer Cobina Wright, later as an associate editor of Vogue's Paris edition...
...Cobina Wright was the only one of his five wives to part by divorce from Owen Johnson (Stover at Yale), Born Esther Cobb on an Oregon ranch 90 mi. from a railroad, she was taken abroad by an aunt; at 16 she made her operatic debut in Germany and married Novelist Johnson. After War and divorce she entered Manhattan society by way of marriage to a wealthy broker named William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities...
...life. Shortly she heard that Mr. Wright's new life included an artist's model named Myrtle Gardner.' Last year she began divorce proceedings in New York. Before her case could be heard, Mr. Wright secured a divorce in New Mexico, married Miss Gardner. But Cobina Wright wanted a New York divorce and alimony...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by Serge Kounsevitsky will give a concert in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Arthur Honegger will be the guest conductor, assisted by Madame Andree Vaurabourg Honegger, pianist, and Miss Cobina Wright...
...Bovee of Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton, who died in 1923. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, one-time (Feb., 1920, to July...