Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such columns as Milestones, p. 76 of the April 22 issue, and People, p. 56 of the same issue, are the cuts not surrounded by the material which is related to them? In Milestones, for instance, the picture of Mr. & Mrs. Jessel & Friend (thank God I wasn't asked to perform that marriage ceremony) is on one page-surrounded...
Married. Comedian George Jessel, 42, onetime husband of Norma Talmadge and Florence Courtney; and Showgirl Lois Andrew, 16 and an inch or two taller than he; by a judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...
Engaged. Comedian George Jessel, 42; and Lois Andrew (Lorain Gourley), 16, who once punched Producer George White in the eye; he for the third time (wife No. 1, Florence Courtney; No. 2, Norma Talmadge); in Manhattan. Said Mama Gourley, 33: "I have no objections to early marriages. I was married at 16 myself. I've been divorced seven years." Said Papa Gourley, Los Angeles police official, by wire: "POSITIVELY FORBID YOU TO MARRY ANYONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT...
...present-generation Britain has known a Jewish Viceroy of India, Lord Reading; a Jewish Master of the Rolls, Sir George Jessel; a Jewish Home Secretary, Lord Samuel; and a Jewish Governor General of Australia, Sir Isaac Isaacs. Jewish peers who swore allegiance to George VI at his Coronation were Lords Rothschild, Bearsted, Mancroft, Hirst, Swaythling, Reading and Duveen...