Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme. Lenine. Famed anti-Communist fire-eater, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") declared amid laughter, in answer to a question, that the widow of famed Bolshevist idol Lenine has applied for permission to end her days in England. Said the doughty "Jix," stiffly: "Such an application would be treated on its merits, if presented...
Soon reports of the accident spread about. Parisians expressed their relief, rejoiced especially for the sake of Mme. Foch (the former Julie Bienvenue) and the two Foch daughters, Mme. Becourt and Mme. Fournier. To his only son, they recalled, is vouchsafed the distinction "Mort pour la France...
...stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard in the U. S. between 11 and midnight. Mme. Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics of the Western Hemisphere in singing "Auld Lang Syne," but it was a bad night and few got the tune. The stations heard most clearly by the U. S. were Lima...
...Bovee of Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton, who died in 1923. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, one-time (Feb., 1920, to July...
Florence Mills, pastel darktown strutter, made a very serious concert bow last week before the International Composers' Guild, Manhattan, Eugene Goossens and Ottorino Respighi conducting; Mme. Respighi, soloist, and Alfredo Casella, pianist. Thin, glittering, syncopation in her eye, she sang four songs with a small jazz orchestra-"Levee Land" it was called, by William Still...