Word: lulu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued. Helen Hayes MacArthur, actress (The Good Fairy), wife of Playwright Charles MacArthur (The Front Page, Lulu Belle) by Playwright Mac Arthur's first wife, Carol Frink MacArthur, cinema critic of the Chicago Herald & Examiner; for $100,000. Charge: alienation of Playwright MacArthurs affections...
Unhappily for Paragon Slocum, he picked up a cigaret girl named Lulu Schaeffer one night and fell in love with her over the next morning's toast. He decided that under her comely exterior beat a heart of gold. He made her throw over her job, memorize Shakespeare, dress properly. He got her in the movies. She became "America's Joy Girl." the nation's current epitome of sweetness & light with a dash of innocent fun. Thereupon her creator fell on evil days. Miss Schaeffer spurned his attentions, betrayed him right & left, refused his belated offer...
...often heard hisses about a Turk or an American Mormon being in the house." Highest spot of the summer's adventures was when he was almost caught after lights telling ghost-stories to eight of his bevy in one of their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately followed by an almost hysterical outburst on the part...
Leading lady of the piece is Lenore Ulric, who has finally come to light comedy after squirming and rasping through a decade of sin for the late David Belasco (Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima). Her husband, Sidney Blackmer, plays opposite...
That a female was actually aroused to the point of pocketing her dignity and suing Bookseller Bischl for fraud was due, he thought, to the real title (not advertised) of the book, Lazy Little Lulu Learns to Cook...