Word: laundress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dusky Prince Batoula, 44-year-old heir apparent to a native "throne" in Senegal, French West Africa, corrected last week the impression that he was going to make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher...
...Laundress Mercer, who was elated over the prospect of becoming a Princess and did not mind telling people about it, was dismayed over this turn of events. In letters from Paris, where she arrived after five days of seasickness. Miss Mercer first wrote Harlem friends that life was a song. "The Prince has given me everything that any woman can ask for," she said. "He has a large ten-room apartment, a maid and a Personal Secretary. The Maid does everything for me. My bath, bed and Clothes, it is really too good to last, but I still think...
Miss Harriette Mercer, 26, a strapping, dusky laundress, was presented to His Highness at a Harlem reception. It was love at first sight; and the fact that the Prince had some four wives-the limit under Mohammedan law-back in Africa seemed unimportant. Before the Prince returned to Paris, where he is correspondent for Le Senegal, West African weekly, they were engaged to be married. Said the Princess-to-be last week before she sailed to join her fiance: "Every girl dreams of meeting a Prince and marrying him, and it looks like my dream will come true. . . . I really...
...ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
...exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured for 3,000,000 francs...