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...Lyda Southard smoothed down her green "going-away" dress, patted her plump bust, and cast a last, almost regretful glance at the cretonne curtains and flowered wallpaper. After all, it had been home for a long time, even if it was the women's ward of the Idaho State Penitentiary. She had fixed up the room right pretty...
Except for one brief interval, she had been there since 1921-for murder. Lyda's face was still plain but pleasant. Grey just tinged her bronze hair. Her memories and her 49 years sat very lightly...
...some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...
...Died. Lyda Roberti, 28, blonde Polish-born actress; of acute nephritis; in Hollywood. Daughter of a clown, she won success by enthusiastic undulations and a mid-European accent, both on Broadway (You Said It, Roberta) and in films (Million Dollar Legs, The Kid From Spain...
...spotlight Haley and Kelly in their inoffensive cutups. Taken to a nightclub by Lopez, Cecilia and Nellie see Joe, employed as a waiter, pretend that he is a performer, stumble into a bit of clowning which costs him his job. On a visit to a studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce her with the aid of an Indian love charm. He is prancing over the divan, shouting...