Word: nora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Denied. Lew Cody, cinema actor, to Dora Goldberg Gressing Northworth Gordon "Nora" Bayes (TIME, Aug. 25). Said he: "I wish it were true. It's fiction...
Engaged. Dora Goldberg Gressing; Norworth Clarke Gordon Bayes (known to theatre-goers as Nora Bayes), blond vaudeville actress, to Lew Cody, cinema actor; in London...
...Leviathan (U. S. Line)?Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Basso Adamo Didur, both of the Metropolitan Opera Company; A. H. Woods, "bedroom man;" Nora Bayes, famed actress; the Japanese Davis Cup Team?Messrs. Fukuda, Harada, Shimizu; Jesus Artegas ("P. T. Barnum of Cuba"), who is taking H. Ponce de Leon, welterweight pugilistic champion of Cuba, with him in hopes of matching him abroad; Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt (Gloria Morgan...
...Nora Bayes, famed actress: "I sailed for England, there to make my home. To reporters I stated that my three adopted daughters, aged four, five and six, would attend English schools. Said I: 'Too much melting-pot in America! . . . English girls are trained to have quite as much independence as American girls, but they do not adopt the annoying jazzy qualities so popular with their sisters here...
...actresses submitted for the title role of Peter Pan, one Frederick Donaghey, critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote: 'A guess as to the other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite the unkindest paragraph of the year is credited to Frederick Donaghey...