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...first time in palace history an American girl was allowed to "swing it" with the musicians. The swingstress was 20-year-old Evelyn Dall, a lissome ash-blonde from New York's Bronx. A onetime hoofer in Billy Rose's Manhattan Music Hall. Miss Dall went abroad in 1933, was leading lady with the Monte Carlo Follies for a season, then joined the London swing band. London cafe-goers know her as ''Ambrose's Bronx Bombshell." Miss Dall, whose real name is Evelyn Mildred Fuss, took her stage name from that of President Roosevelt...
...James Roosevelt stopped off in Palm Beach last winter, he glibly announced: "It is our sincere hope that he [Claude Pepper] will be returned to the Senate." Mark Wilcox's acid comment: "The State of Florida is waiting with bated breath to see what stand Sistie and Buzzie [Dall] will take...
...Seattle he lingered two nights and a day at the unpretentious house of his son-in-law, John Boettiger, publisher of William Randolph Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, played with his grandchildren Curtis and Eleanor Dall, and their Irish setters, Jack and Jill. Next day, his seven-league footsteps began again...
...Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants soon discovered she had brought her ruling manner with her. Her stanchest admirers were the President's grandchildren, Sistie and Buzzie Dall...
...Crimson boatings for the race will find George S. Lewis at stroke, Richard M. Burnes, 7; George von L. Meyer III, 6; Raiph Hamill, 5; Edward Ahrens, Jr. 4; Mark H. Dall, 3; Robert F. Mozley, 2; James Gilkey, bow and Robert D. Procter, coxwain...