Word: cote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office as a clerk in the Louisville office of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Jacob Justin Keifer got his start in pigeon breeding at 13, when he invested savings of $5 on two pigeons of which one was a "coaxer"-handsome cock capable of attracting stray females to his cote. For a few years after that Jacob Keifer tried raising and racing homing pigeons and at 19 went to Texas to make his fortune. When he went home to Louisville, he married and settled down to pigeon-rearing in earnest. He got into judging about 20 years ago, rose quickly...
...stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris. A 22-year-old chorus girl named Gladys Cote volunteered to replace Dancer Nevell. The act was renamed "Bride of the Lion...
...Bride of the Lion" went off as scheduled and the curtain fell. Suddenly from the stage came screams, roars, shots. A juggler rushed out, distracted the audience by beginning his act in front of the curtain. Behind it, Dr. Hamiter was tugging a lion named George off prostrate Gladys Cote. Her lacerations were not fatal, but bacteria under the lion's claws were. Gangrene developed and in three days Bride Cote was dead...
...Circus de Paris moved on to Philadelphia, where a city ordinance forbids such animal turns as "Bride of the Lion." But Dr. Hamiter testified at an inquest that Dancer Cote, vexed by newspaper criticism of the lions' lethargy, had sewed a large bolt in the hem of her veil, presumably thumped George's snout with it. The troupe's manager. Eddie Pierce, announced that blameless George would continue to perform in the act, that three girls had already applied to replace Gladys Cote as his bride...
Died. Lew Cody (Louis Joseph Cote), 49. cinemactor; of a heart attack, in his sleep; in Beverly Hills. He was born in Waterville, Me., studied medicine at McGill University, Montreal. An interest in amateur theatricals led him to one-night stands, vaudeville. His success as a suave villain in silent cinemas (For Husbands Only, Rupert of Hentzau) was repeated in talkies (Wine, Women & Song, Madison Square Garden-). He was twice married to Dorothy Dalton (now Mrs. Arthur Hammerstein), once to the late Mabel Normand...