Word: nell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard free style--Won by Richard S. Cosby '34 (E); second, Lowrey; third, Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36 (B); fourth, Gilbert L. O'Nell...
...onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made in England, chose her for the leading role in preference to Evelyn Laye or Jeanette MacDonald. Aside from a contract to play the title role in British & Dominion's forthcoming Nell Gwynne and a bad habit of twitching her paws, Anna Neagle has all the requisites for a speedy trip to Hollywood...
...Curses on that city slicker! He ain't done right by our little Nell!" cries Hiram Stanley, the honest farmer. It's true he ain't and it looks bad for Nell. But virtue triumphs, and villainous Richard Murgatroyd, alias Handsome Harry, is foiled in his wicked designs on the farmer's daughter by the staunch courage of noble Jack Dalton, a son of the soil, beneath whose flannel shirt beats an honest heart. The old homestead is saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack...
...Nell never retired formally from the stage, but after Charles took up with her she acted less & less. Though the King always had more than one mistress at a time Nell was apparently not jealous. She made the most of the princely presents he gave her: a house in Pall Mall, a generous allowance, two sons. The King found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never...
When Charles II died suddenly in 1685, Nell Gwyn's world collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to "apoplexy," Biographer Bax cites a modern medical opinion that the real cause of her death was syphilis, hints that this too was a gift from her lavish royal lover. Bax calls Nell "sweet, merry, winsome. . . . We cannot say, though, that she was one of the world's most beautiful women." But he thinks "she would have enchanted any cocktail party or diplomatic reception of our time...