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Errol Flynn, a yacht, and a girl again made news. Nora Eddington, 19, recently an aircraft worker, was cruising with him off Acapulco, Mexico. Word got around that they were married. Actor Errol denied it; so did Nora. Her mother, who works in a Los Angeles bakery, told reporters that Nora had said "she didn't know whether she loved him for himself, or whether she just was in love with his glamor. So I kissed her good-by and I haven't heard from her since...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
...best is brilliant. Though she made her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan, no play could represent her, as actress or woman, worse. She found her roles as the gutsy young wife in Saturday's Children, the gaunt and twisted Mattie Silver in Ethan Frame, the restless, rebellious Nora of A Doll's House, the prancing, hoydenish Mrs. Pinchwife of the lewd Restoration comedy, The Country Wife. Tense, biting, almost distractingly alive, Actress Gordon would make her presence felt at the height of a hurricane...
...Industry. Master of Ceremonies was Composer Deems Taylor, whose own efforts suggested to observers that he had best leave the silent arts to such an accomplished brushman as Chairman H. S. Maurer (violinist at Radio City Music Hall). Said Taylor at sight of Chairman Maurer's portrait of Nora: "My God, the man who did that must be a lousy musician...
...village churchyard near by, Private Caveney was buried last week, the first ATS girl to die in action against the enemy. Said Nora Caveney's C.O.: "Seasoned soldiers could not have behaved better." From all over England came polite, stiff letters asking for Nora Caveney's picture...