Word: fauntleroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Betsy Fauntleroy, 16, got him to the point where he popped the question. Betsy turned him down cold, not once but twice; and not even a letter to her father helped. Not until Washington began to wrestle with his hopeless passion for the married Sally Fairfax is there any sign of another serious love affair...
...biggest jobs: to convince 37 nationalities in some of Boston's grimmest slums that he was no Fauntleroy...
Married. Frederick Cecil ("Freddie") Bartholomew, 22, British-born child star of prewar cinema (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captains Courageous)', and Maely Daniele, 28, his pressagent; he for the first time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev., three weeks after Freddie had promised his Aunt Myllicent that he would wait two months and then have a glorious Hollywood wedding (TIME, April...
...Glee clubs and dramatics (when Eddie Cantor wore velvet pants on his way to play Fauntleroy at the Alliance, a Jefferson Street toughie blacked...
Died. Reginald Bathurst ("Reggie") Birch, 87, famed Victorian illustrator; in The Bronx Home for Incurables. Born in London, Bon Vivant Birch illustrated scores of magazines and books. For his drawings for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy (which brought its author $350,000), Birch said he got $400 and two theater tickets...