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Died. Beatrice ("Advice to the Lovelorn") Fairfax (real name: Marie Manning Gasch), 70, the first journalistic heartmender; of a heart attack; in Washington. The 1898 brain child of 20-year-old Sob Sister Marie Manning and the late Hearstling Arthur Brisbane, "Advice" soon was a must for 200 papers. Marie married, others took over. But 1929 sent her back to title, typewriter and text: "Dry your eyes, roll up your sleeves and dig for a practical solution...
...music, lyrics, and dancing have been are woven together in the ballet to turn out several delightful sequences. Advice to the lovelorn waxes hysterically historical when Irene Manning, struggling to make up her mind between two men, is given advice by three sexperts, Plato, Freud, and Voltaire, who step down from their poses as statues to sing their solutions to her problem...
...frequently.* All who use pseudo-science as a short-cut cure for troubles, especially mental ills, are thobbers to some extent-e.g., those who apply to astrologers, numerologists, graphologists, self-styled psychologists with fake degrees (Ps.D., Ms.D.), spiritualists, hypnotists, some beauticians and gymnasium proprietors and advice-to-the-lovelorn editors...
...dismissed her with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick on you?" He asked rippling Paulette Goddard with elaborate sweetness: "Take away your face and your figure and what have you got?" Of Beatrice ("Advice to the Lovelorn") Fairfax he naughtily inquired: "Where do you learn all the things you tell the young folks...
Britons were finally told last week what many had long suspected. The lovelorn Atlantic Charter is scheduled for a face lifting...