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Grey beards today still remember "Little Egypt" (Frieda Mahzar) and her hootchy-kootchy dance when they have forgotten everything about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial in 1926 was a dismal failure largely be cause it put patriotism ahead of peep shows...
...time supporting themselves, let alone Rhythm, but they struggled along somehow, cheated by landlords, threatened with bankruptcy proceedings by printers. Says Murry: "By reason of their unremitting vicissitudes, the Murry-Mansfields were in danger of becoming a standing joke." An added complication was their intimacy with D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, who were exciting but impossible to live with. Once Katherine left Murry for another man with whom she thought she was in love. Murry says he was not jealous, knew she would come back. She did, but their good days together were over. Murry was exempt from conscription because...
...Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters...
Shortly after the gold seizure Joseph T. Higgins, local Collector of Internal Revenue, slapped income tax liens for $740,000 on Zelik Josefowitz, Z. Josefowitz and Frieda Josefowitz of Zurich, Switzerland; for $258,000 on Gregori Josefowitz, care of Lawrence Mead, 20 Place Vendôme, Paris; for $24.50 on Selman Josefowitz, also of Zurich. The two major items consisted of 1934, 1935 and 1936- taxes of $573,000 plus penalties...
...with the best will in the world is likely to detract more than she adds to a man's reputation. But now & again, in spite of its stained-glass windows, a widow's memorial lets in an occasional shaft of light on the human figure within. Like Frieda Lawrence's book on her late great husband (Not I, but the Wind; TIME, Oct. 8, 1934), Dorothy Cheston Bennett's intimate portrait of Arnold Bennett last week gave curious readers a worth-while wife's-eye view. Those who found her style awkward, her psychological probings...