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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Edna Wallace Leedom, 31, actress (Lovely Lady), onetime salesgirl and choir singer, of Manhattan; to Frank Doelger, 42, an heir to the $8,000,000 fortune of Brewer Peter Doelger; secretly, a month ago; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Lovely Lady. For those who like Edna Leedom this is valid fun. Miss Leedom is blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Fields, Will Rogers, Ray Dooley, Olsen's Band, Vivienne Segal remain. Added are Edna Leedom, Lina Basquette and various ladies fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

Uproarious comedy about the piano next door, with Lane and Edna Leedom bounding and bawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...beautiful battalions, all his comics, all his scenery, all his singers into the initial attack. After five hours of combat there were casualties. Sufficient members survived to form the nucleus for another of the greatest shows on earth. On the general staff this season are Fanny Brice, Edna Leedom, Hap Ward, Harland Dixon, Bert and Betty Wheeler, Brooke Johns, Paul Whiteman. Though with the possible exception of Miss Brice and Mr. Whiteman none of them have attained Who's Who, they are extraordinarily entertaining. The chorus, with the most extensive personnel in history, seems again to have that fatal gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 29, 1923 | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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