Word: molla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight-time U. S. woman's tennis champion, revealed that she and her husband, Broker Franklin I. Mallory, are now "poor," that she will soon open a sports shop for women in Manhattan. For six weeks late ly Mrs. Mallory had a job as saleswoman in Saks Fifth Avenue, swank department store. "Well, they fired me. I guess I wasn't so much a drawing card as they hoped I'd be ... you're soon forgot...
...play "The Star Spangled Banner" followed by other national anthems. The onetime champions marched slowly across the courts to the table where each received a medal from Secretary Adams, a spasm of applause from 4,000 spectators. There was some confusion about the medal, for the name of Molla Bjursted Mallory, eight-time Woman's Champion, and of Mary K. Browne had unaccountably been left off the list. Richard Dudley Sears, in a loud burst of applause, shook hands four times, received his medal with patrician politeness. He made no great show of liking the ceremony but said...
...finals, Mrs. Moody's opponent was Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But while Mrs. Moody was sweeping through the upper half of the draw almost as easily as in 1929. Mrs. Whittingstall was having a hard time of it in the lower half. In the quarter-finals she played a great match against Helen Jacobs, considered second best woman player in the U.S. After...
...motion pictures, "Raffies", with John Barrymore, and "Tennis", featuring William T. Tilden II, Helen Wills Moody, and Molla Mallory, will be shown; magic, music, and refreshments will also be in order...