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...submitted for the title role of Peter Pan, one Frederick Donaghey, critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote: 'A guess as to the other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite the unkindest paragraph of the year is credited to Frederick Donaghey...
...Married. Gilda Gray, famed dancer (real name Mrs. Mary Gorecki, née Michalski, daughter of a Milwaukee alderman and former wife of a Cudahy, Wis., bartender), to Gaillard T. Boag, owner of a chain of Manhattan cabarets; in Chicago...
...American soprano, Luella Melius, sailed for Europe for a year of concerting there. She will appear in Paris as Gilda in a guest performance of Rigoletto. Mme. Ganna Walska essayed the same role in Paris last year, with disastrous results. It will be recalled that there was some disturbance and even a mention of legal proceedings arising over the fact that Jules Daiber of New York, who had been Mme. Melius' manager, became the manager of Mme. Walska. Mme. Melius maintained that she had a contract with Mr. Daiber which bound him to render her exclusive managerial service...
...Gilda Gray, Follies contortionist: " At my Rockville Centre, L. I., home I entertained 100 children from a nearby bible school. I gave them a picnic lunch; I gave them games and folk dances on the green...
...Gilda Gray at 25 cents a showing...