Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BORN To BE-Taylor Gordon-Covici-Friede ($4). (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten; Foreword by Muriel Draper; Illustrations by Covarrubias...
...night the singer met a novelist, pink-cheeked Carl Van Vechten. He now calls him "the Abraham Lincoln of Negro Art." He met and admired others: Muriel Draper partygoing in a window curtain; Colyumist Heywood Broun lying shirt-sleeved beside his bathtub of cocktails, to receive intelligentsia; Lady Oxford asking Gordon to Black Bottom after singing for royalty. He sang all over the U. S., heard deafening and perplexing applause. Now 36, he muses: "Ho! Ho! ... I wonder what I was born...
Strictly Dishonorable. In a speak-easy whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...
Married. Michael J. P. Cudahy, grandson of Meatpacker Michael Cudahy; to Cinemactress Muriel Evans (real name: Muriel Evansen); at Riverside, Calif. In 1927, Heir Cudahy attempted elopement with Cinemactress Marie Astaire, was intercepted by his mother at Santa Barbara, jailed, sent home, "put to bed for safe keeping...
...Muriel McCormick, daughter of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick, last week established residence in Rochester, N. Y., intending study at the famed Eastman School of Music...